{style inspiration: sexy scallops}

. . . bright, sunny afternoons that seem to last a little longer each day, and thoughts are drifting, drifting to enchanting spring & summery things -- whimsical notecards with sweetly scalloped edges and palest pink shorts with layers light as air, french rattan baskets and pretty lacy parasols, sexy eyelet tops and romantic bed linens and soon, there will be picnics and early evenings at the beach . . .


scalloped notecards, papermash | chloé scalloped triangle bikini | french rattan basket, summerill & bishop | pale pink shorts, h&m conscious collection


marc jacobs embroidered dress, barneys new york; also seen here


scalloped bed linens, adore home magazine



retrosun vintage gucci sunglasses | white emma battenburg lace parasol, brollies galore | chloé scalloped bikini, 305.861.1909 via terra black | macarons, martha stewart via elaina keppler | aurélie bidermann fortalezza 18-karat gold-plated shell drop earrings

{images: top, vogue uk via jamaica byles via charles cherney; seashell, here; teacup here; dogwood cake, peggy weaver's baking corner; flatware, here}

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{on the market: stockholm, sweden}

. . . there has been a warm and woodsy victorian in australia, a bright and modern apartment in sweden, and even a look at the differences between magazine and real estate photography for a townhouse in new york, but until now, there has never been such a perfect intermingling of the two . . . swedish real estate firm, fantastic frank, photographs homes for their listings in much the same way as interior design magazines; working with photographers who do not usually shoot houses, but work in fashion, art and architecture, they have developed a beautiful new photographic style that will forever change the way one thinks of real estate listings: for here, a light-filled home in östermalm, an upscale borough in stockholm, sweden, glittering with chandeliers and positively strewn with roses . . .























{images: photography by anders lindén for fantastic frank via trendey story}

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Calling all travel bloggers to join Blog4NZ

Christchurch, New Zealand's third largest city and my hometown may have been rocked by a massive earthquake that has caused major damage to the central city and outlying suburbs, but the rest of New Zealand remains in one piece and is still one of the most fun and beautiful places in the world to visit.

Hence Blog4NZ...a grassroots action created by NZ travel bloggers who want to get the word out that New Zealand is still one of the premiere travel destinations.

All travel bloggers, in fact all bloggers, are encouraged to participate no matter where you live and whether or not you have ever visited New Zealand.

According to the Blog4NZ press release, here's how it will work...

"March 21, 22, and 23 has been set aside by travel bloggers throughout the world as 72 hours of content generation about travelling to New Zealand. #Blog4NZ is the brain-child of New Zealand travel bloggers Jim McIntosh and John Reese. John himself living in Christchurch. "We want a total black-out of travel content across the world, we want Twitter dominated by Tweets about travelling to New Zealand, we hope that all travel bloggers rally behind this cause and publish as many articles as possible throughout this period about travelling to New Zealand" said event organiser Craig Martin of Indie Travel Media.

"New Zealand is one of the world's greatest travel destinations and has been a great source for many travel bloggers and travel entrepreneurs. For many northern hemisphere countries it is the furthest most spot they can travel. It has been the place where so much innovation has come with regard to travel – the home of Bungy, the birth place of hop-on hop-off backpacker travel, NZ led the way in independent hostels throughout the eighties and nineties. It is also a country where tourism is the number one contributor to GDP, where the Minister of Tourism is the PM – that is how important tourism is. This is the travel community saying hey go to NZ – if there is one place that should be on your travel list this year it is NZ" said Dan Roberts of Travel Generation. "This is something that as the travel community we can do to support not only all the businesses in Christchurch but everyone in New Zealand."

Over the next few days event organisers will be working with the whole New Zealand tourism industry to gather resources, images and content that travel bloggers from all over the world will be able to access to generate their stories during the 72 hours of blog4NZ. At the same time the call is going out to all travel bloggers, travel experts, photographers and social media users to show the power of the Internet to make a real long term difference to those travel businesses suffering in New Zealand not just now but over the next 12 months in New Zealand as a result of the earthquake."

For more information go to http://blog4nz.indietravelmedia.com/

BOOT will be at No Vacancy in Sydney March 23

The BOOT will be joining hundreds at the No Vacancy Conference in Sydney on March 23 (Dockside, Darling Harbour).

Speakers I am looking forward to include:

• Glenn Fogel of Priceline.com;
• Rachel Argaman of Toga;
• Simon McGrath of Accor APAC;
• Justin Butterworth of Occupancy and (separately) Kirsty Shaw of Stayz; and
• An OTA panel with Johan Svanstrom of Hotels.com, Robbie Cooke of Wotif and John Feenaghty of Quickbeds.com.
  

Full list of speakers here.

Tickets still available here. 200 have already signed up to join (list of attendees as at March 7 here). Let me know if you are going to be there.

Eric Beecroft: Sufis & Saints

Photo © Eric Beecroft-All Rights Reserved

Photo © Eric Beecroft-All Rights Reserved

Eric Beecroft is the visionary co-founder of the hugely successful Foundry Photojournalism Workshop which is entering its fourth year, after being held in Mexico City, Manali (India), Istanbul and which will be held in Buenos Aires this coming July.

Eric teaches photography, photojournalism/documentary photography, history, geo-politics and anthropology at the Walden School, a public charter school in Utah. He spends a few months a year traveling and leading photo expeditions of high school students and adults. His photography is mostly documentary work, photojournalism, and adventure/outdoors photography.

He recently updated his website with photographs of Delhi's Nizzam Uddin Dargah in Delhi; an area which we share an interest in, and of Rishikesh in the Indian Himalayas.

The top photograph is of a Muslim woman in the throes of "hajri" or trance at the shrine of the Sufi saint, while the lower photograph is from Eric's Ganga Ma: Rishikesh, and which I particularly like.

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Vanilla Meringue Cookies from Trader Joe's

From Trader Joe's website: "Way back in the 20th century (okay, it was in the late 1990's, but really, that was way back in the 20th century), we discovered a small French bakery in San Diego that made the best meringues we'd ever tasted. We convinced them to make their wonderful meringues on a larger scale. Thanks in large part to this partnership with Trader Joe's, this once-small bakery is now the largest manufacturer of meringues in North America.

Trader Joe's Vanilla Meringues are light and airy, crunchy and crispy at the same time. How do they do that? We'll chalk it up to the miracles of traditional French baking. Or maybe it's the all natural ingredients, the utter lack of artificial ingredients, or the wispy peaks atop each goodsized meringue (about an inch in diameter). Whether eaten straight from the tub or crumbled over a bowl of fresh fruit or your favorite flavor of ice cream, they're good."

Each 6 oz tub is $2.99.

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More...from Paris Fashion Week

Here are more random photos from Paris fashion week. It was so fun to pretend doing jobs of Scott-The Sartorialist, Tommy-JakandJil, Jason-CitizenCouture, and Daniel-StockholmStreetStyle.

Most models go from show to show by moto-taxi in Paris.

Thank you everyone for visiting!! Have a wonderful day!!!xoxo...Hanh :)