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Cliche - Illustrated Film of French Stereotypes

Stella — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:13:15 -0500

This film is simply brilliant.

You can see it here Cliche France as Seen From Abroad

Also on Youtube in English and French

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Devereaux's Feelings about Marie Antoinette

Stella — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:58:20 -0400

Poor dog suffers for my francophilia.

Project Runway Season 8 Flubbed Finale

Stella — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:37:06 -0400

Gretchen....seriously? Nothing, nothing about these looks was interesting, fresh or "wearable". Wearable public underwear? If I saw these on the rack not only would I look right past them, I would think, "Cheap and Crunchy"

UNLESS I wanted to dress up for Halloween as....

Dumb Donald.

Paris vs New York

Stella — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:10:16 -0400

This is a great new graphic series, a friendly comparison between two of the most beloved (or hated) cities.

Paris vs. New York

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Devereaux's First Dog Halloween Costume : Marie Antoinette

Stella — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:48:03 -0400

The costume is still in progress. It's cold so I let her "pose" on the heating pad.

I'm going to remove the lace collar I think. It's too Queen Victoria, maybe I'll save it for next year.

Paris Summer 2010

Stella — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:19:21 -0400

This summer I finally made it back to Paris for the summer.

My sister came to stay with me for a week or so as well, it was her first time there. She loves Italy and I love France. This has only posed problems in 2006 during World Cup. I was in Croatia and she was in Texas so no one was harmed.

We walked a lot and ate a lot. But really it all evens out.

Berthillon... bien sûr.

Angelina's for chocolat chaud. I did buy the powder to bring back to Colombia. It's been great on these cold days, especially this week since I was on holiday and moved by French classes to the morning. This is the luxury of a home vacation.

Both of these are standard for any Paris vist. But our favorite place, hence daily, place was Coquelicot near Metro Abbesses. They have an amazing brunch. Brunch seems to be just taking off in Paris. But we went for breakfast. Every Day. It was only a few blocks from the apartment and a few steps from the metro that took us straight to center. If you get there early enough you can sit at the few table they have outside, just far enough off the street. But there's also a great little upstairs room that always seemed to have room, even on those brunch Sundays.

The big coffee bowls and tartine with local honey are my two favorite. The brioche is excellent as well. Plus get this...it's affordable.

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and more Dollhouse murders

Stella — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:55:17 -0400

another clip.....cannot wait.

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"Of Dolls and Murder" with narrator John Waters

Stella — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:17:41 -0400

There is something amazing here. A documentary on recreations of murder scenes by the use of dollhouses. Then to make it more amazing it's narrated by John Waters. I don't think I even need to mention why that is amazing.

Must stop using the adjective "amazing".

The Words of Tim Gunn

Stella — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:53:45 -0400

One of the things that makes Project Runway for me, other than sewing of course, is Tim Gunn's fantastic vocabulary.

Examples:

mitigating

circuitous

Sturm und Drang

faux bois

scuttlebutt

Hearing him speak is like a soft wave cleansing my mind of all the Spanglish and text speak that makes up my life of teaching English Lit to ESL students.

But nothing....nothing will ever top the shock and, for some reason, delight of hearing Tim say,

"Jackie Kennedy would not have cameltoe."

Oh Tim......

Not a Loser Anymore, Like the Last Time and The Time Before

Stella — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:10:31 -0400

I love the sewing and vintage blog community. I should add a blog roll, I know Iknow.

I try to comment on several a day, even if the jealousy is hard to get through. Many blogs do giveaways in order to promote their blog and thank their blog community. Sometimes you must become their follower or repost their giveaway, often it's just commenting on the blog or answering a question that enters you to win some pretty amazing gifts.

Vintage Vixen, the owner of the Etsy store Fab Gabs has been running a great series of giveaways, each themed with a specific time era. I...yes me, Stella, won the 1940's giveaway. When I saw my name I didn't really beleive it, I mean I cannot be the only Stella out there in sewing blog land. But it was....and look at the goodies I'll be receiving!!!

Today there is a great 1950's giveaway you should totally check out.

It feels good to be a winner. I already have my 50$ gift certificate spent in my head, let's hope the things I want don't get snatched up before I get my chance, so as to my choices on that I'm keeping mum. So have you ever won through one of these giveaways?