i’m back on the thalys train tonight to Paris and will be there for the next two weeks working on a rather wonderful and intense project. i contemplated asking for a guest blogger or two like the professional bloggers do, it looks so impressive, but i actually have no idea how that works, unfortunately i’m not that advanced yet. and i didnt get organised enough to get posts ready ahead of time. so instead i am just taking you with me! Which means for the next two weeks the blog will be a little different – there won’t be the long posts like usual but instead i will be taking a photo of paris everyday for you, where ever i might be and perhaps whoever i might meet. how does that sound? Hope you like the idea.

Here is one to start us off, from my Summer ’07 Paris collection, starring my lovely friends Beve, her beautiful sister Natasha, and the fabulous Romain. Of course this photo needs a soundtrack, so here it is, thanks madeleine..

See you all tomorrow in Paris! xx

here is the second series from the delightfully sunny sunday i spent wandering the streets of amsterdam. i have loved reading your comments in part one, and i think you should all come and visit amsterdam again and again, it truly is a beautiful city! perhaps the following photos will help convince you to pack your bags (oh and it is queens day here soon, i hear it is quite spectacular, i am looking forward to it!)

the soundtrack for this post is right here. just click on this link which will open the song in a new window and then come back to scroll through the photos. enjoy…

i took alot of photos. that’s how excited i was to be out in the sunshine. i probably took enough photos for a ten part series. but i shall not do that to you! these are just little snippets. the song is by peter bjorn and john, thank you boys.

let me know if you would like the names or streets from any of the above and below images, i’d be happy to share with you my favourite amsterdam wanders. and i’ve saved my favourite photo for last, now this is the life…

please click here for this post’s soundtrack, and enjoy…

Thank you to Jacques Brel for singing this perfect song. Stay tuned for part two of this sunday stroll…

it was fleeting. so fleeting in fact, that i only had a chance to capture it through the window late this afternoon and not on the street like i had hoped. but beautiful none the less. oh sun i miss you! sigh.

there is always tomorrow…

i was hoping to get out to try my new lense today, with further hope to share with you some nice spring pics of amsterdam. but the dull dreary weather has been totally uninspiring. today there was not even a glimpse that perhaps a sun does exist as a light source. so i’ve been continuing with chores and errands, ticking things off the list, and looking out the window hoping to have an excuse to dash out and take some photos. but alas, it did not happen. instead, this is all i was able to capture – the top of the rijks museum from my kitchen window. have a look at that sky!

but if you can, imagine this tower chiming away at sunset, to a tune similar to this. enjoy. and let’s all wish for some sun this weekend!!

UPDATE: having listened to the above bells this morning i have realised the rijks museum bells sound NOTHING like it! the bells of the rijks museum actually sound more like this, even though these are from the zuiderkerk. and if you are wondering, the sky is still the same grey as in the photograph. oh woe.