{ A l a s M i l M a r a v i ll a s }

A cup of flowers {flores en copas}

by Mary Stefan

Yael Naim {new soul}

Yaël Naïm is a French-Israeli singer and songwriter.

She was born in Paris in 1978 to Jewish-Tunisian parents. At the age of four, she moved with her family to Ramat HaSharon, Israel, where she learned Hebrew and trained as a pianist.

Her second album is Yael Naïm (2007). The songs are in French, English, and Hebrew and received critical acclaim,^[3] and the album entered the French album chart at #11 the week after its release. Her style has been described as having a touch of folk and a touch of jazz, with mysterious and evocative words sung with a delicate and intentionally husky voice ^[7]

In January 2008, Apple featured her song "New Soul" in its debut commercial for the MacBook Air laptop.

Yael Naim ¡nació en París, Francia, el 6 de Febrero de 1978, de padres judío franco-tunecinos. A los cuatro años se mudó a Israel donde estudió piano y estudió en el Conservatorio de Música durante nueve años.
Su primer album editado en Francia en el 2001 fue un fracaso, pero su segundo CD, de 2007, llamado simplemente Yael Naim, fue un éxito en toda Francia.
Se dió a conocer en los medios después de que su canción New Soul fuese exhibida en el comercial del Laptop ultra fino de Apple, MacBook Air, que fue lanzado internacionalmente en febrero de 2008.

Amapolas

Feliz Viernes {happy friday}

Really beautiful backyard wedding {via OnceWed}

Home {Anita Kaushai}

This is a beautiful book

full of little vignettes of family life and a lot of ideas for making home life lovely.

Un libro hermoso e inspirador lleno de ideas para crear un hogar familiar cálido y vivible.

Keiko Minami {poetic prints}

keiko minami is a japanese artist born in 1911. She died in 2004. She was Yozo Hamaguchi`s wife. Her work is delicate and poetic.

keiki minami es una artista japonesa llena de poesía. Murió en 2004 a los 93 años. Fue la esposa de otro gran artista japonés, con quien vivió en Francia. Me fascina su sensibilidad y delicadeza.

Party inspirations {just about colour}

Lalé {retro and poetic}

Valérie Roubaud crea un universo bohemio y vintage hecho de mil y un objetos textiles de inspiración viajera. Entre todos sus creaciones me enamoraron sus valijitas de telas combinadas, blanditas y faciles de guardar -simplemente doblarlas!- con su bolsillo escondido donde guardar pequeños secretos.

This is one of the joyful creations of Valerie Roubaud at Lalé. Practical, it can be folded to save space. I love the printed mish-mash on the outside and the inside, and the hidden pocket where one can put little secrets.

Flower party {nunca me canso de las flores}

Via Rachel Thuss

Camilla Engman {from sweden with love}

Beautiful book with lot of extra goodies from Camilla Engman.

Hemoso libro de la ilustradora sueca Camilla Engman con un montón de extras.

Beautiful things {little thing}

Una revista china, llamada Little Thing, cuyo lema es: coleccionamos cosas hermosas. Muy difìcil conseguirla por fuera de China, pero acá van algunas imágenes para disfrutarla, aún sin entender nada de nada.

A Chinese bimonthly magazine called Little Thing. Its motto is "We collect beautiful things". Hard to get it out of China but here you can get some pics.

Feliz Sábado {Happy Saturday}

Flores inesperadas en una mañana de sábado.

Unexpected flowers on a saturday morning.

Encantadoras Fotografías de María Cecilia vía CasadulceHogar.

Lhasa de Sela ya no está

...murió Lhasa. Ya hace unos días. El 1 de enero. Que tristeza!

Lhasa murió en su casa de Montreal despues de luchar casi dos años contra el cáncer de mama. Sus tres álbumes son La llorona -1997-, The living road -2003- y el último, LHASA, del 2009. Una voz y una presencia únicas, apasionada, poderosa.

Nació en New York en el 72 y murió recién llegado el 2010. Desde su partida, nevó más de 40 horas en Montreal.

Lhasa de Sela passed away in her Montreal home on the night of January 1st 2010, just before midnight. She succumbed to breast cancer after a twenty-one month long struggle, which she faced with courage and determination.

She was forced to cancel a long international tour scheduled for autumn 2009. A projected album of the songs of Victor Jara and Violeta Parra would also remain unrealized.

Lhasa de Sela was born on September 27, 1972, in Big Indian, New York.

Lhasa's unusual childhood was marked by long periods of nomadic wandering through Mexico and the U.S., with her parents and sisters in the school bus which was their home. During this period the children improvised, both theatrically and musically, performing for their parents on a nightly basis. Lhasa grew up in a world imbued with artistic discovery, far from conventional culture.

Later Lhasa became the exceptional artist that the entire world discovered in 1997 with La Llorona, followed by 2003's The Living Road, and 2009's self-titled LHASA. These three albums have sold over a million copies world-wide.

It is difficult to describe her unique voice and stage presence, which earned her iconic status in many countries throughout the world, but some Journalists have described it as passionate, sensual, untameable, tender, profound, troubling, enchanting, hypnotic, hushed, powerful, intense, a voice for all time.

Lhasa leaves behind her partner Ryan, her parents Alejandro and Alexandra, her step-mother Marybeth, her 9 brothers and sisters (Gabriela, Samantha, Ayin, Sky, Miriam, Alex, Ben, Mischa and Eden), her 16 nieces and nephews, her cat Isaan, and countless friends, musicians, and colleagues who have accompanied her throughout her career, not to mention her innumerable admirers throughout the world.

It has snowed more than 40 hours in Montreal since Lhasa's departure.

kidsonroof {creative and playful design}

kidsonroof is a dutch design company for creative and playful children and grown-ups. His formule is simple:
kidsonroof = creativity + imagination + sustainable approach = great to play with -/- visual pollution for the grown ups!
Kidsonroof wishes to re-connect modern life with nature, rediscovering basic values and offering an ecological approach to the act of playing. Kidsonroof was established in 2005 by Romy Boesveldt (NL 68) and Ilya Yashkin (RUS 67). Together with their 3 kids and their little friends they manage a permanent testlab where new ideas keep coming up. A few weeks per year they go back to an oldfashioned simplicity when spending time in their little shed in the southern French mountains without electricity or running water.
Ilya has been trained as an architural designer (Marchi in Moscow and Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. His designs are ingeniously three dimensional and very associative. Romy takes care of the conceptual development and styling.

kidsonroof me encanta. Estoy convencida que cuanto más simple sea un juguete, más "lavado" de estereotipos y marcas, más juegos se pueden crear a partir de ese objeto -cuántas veces nos pasó que el chico se queda jugando con la caja del regalo en vez de con el juguete que estaba adentro?-. Esta empresa de diseño holandesa vuelve sobre esa idea una y otra vez, estimulando la creatividad y la imaginación a partir de juguetes simples y con un enfoque ecológico.

La empresa fue creada por Romy Boesveldt (NL 68) and Ilya Yashkin (RUS 67). Rnomy se encarga del desarrollo conceptual y el styling mientras que Ilya aporta el diseño de los objetos.

Junto a sus tres hijos ponen a prueba una vez por año esta vuelta a lo básico en su pequeña casita del sur de Francia, sin electricidad ni agua corriente.

MiniLabo {un universe doux et tendre}

Carolne Diaz, Celine Heno, and Sophie Adary are the French creative trio behind Minilabo. Launched in 2004, this small lab of creativity launched with a very modern and visually graphic line of plush toys, accesories and stationary.

Caroline and Celine met on the benches of the School of the Duperré School Arts. Caroline is more attracted by textile industry and second by the style of drawing, they met again working at the styling office of a children`s clothes brand. While they were selling their first creations on private sales between friends they meet Sophie Adary, professional of communication. The duo becomes trio and and they created Mini labo. My favourites Big LoveCat and Lapin d'avril -here a bunch of them-.

Caroline Diaz y Celine Heno se conocieron estudiando en la Escuela de Arte Duperré. Más adelante se encontraron en el departamento de diseño de una marca de ropa para chicos. Ahí comenzaron a diseñar sus primeros objetos y a venderlos entre amigos. Fue en ese momento que conocieron a Sophie Adary. Uniendo sus tres perfiles -Caroline es la especialista en industria textil, Celine en ilustración y Sophie en comunicación- y su gusto exquisito por el diseño para niños, dieron origen a Minilabo. Es desde ese mini laboratorio parisino que dan origen a muñecos de tela encantadores, accesorios y toda una línea de papelería. Mis favoritos: el Big LoveCat y los Lapin d'avril -aquí un ramillete en canasta-.