My crunchy summer playlist

· Food

This is not meant to depress you but we are getting closer to the end of summer, a summer that deserves its name considering the weather we had.

To accompany the end of the season, I wanted to share my summer playlist. There is a bit of everything: current songs, less recent and much older: everything to keep a festive, relax and beach atmosphere with a cheesy romantic touch to flirt under the tropics (or in Paris).

 

♪♪ The summer is magic ! ♪♪

I had the idea to unveil the songs of this playlist with cookies that I baked with love thanks to my last culinary acquisition: the stamp for cookies with interchangeable letters. A great accessory to create personalized gifts for relatives and friends.

Customisable cookie stamp Suck UK

However, I haven’t found yet the recipe to bake the top of the notch shortbread cookies: meaning not dry but still sandy AND which keep the inscriptions during the baking stage (my ideal shortbread cookies: the first version of Dinosaurus).

Nailpolish “Alpine Snow” OPI
Bracelets Mya Bay

Bluetooth  speaker “Hoop” Lexon
Iphone 4S Apple (haha ! old school !)

 

♪♪ “Eat” me baby one more time ! ♪♪

Mine are not bad (said the girl who just ate 4 in a raw) but “could do better”: if you have a killer recipe for shortbread cookies, do not hesitate to share it in the comment box, I will try all your recipes and might publish the best one (according to my taste) in a following Sweet-tooth post.

Meanwhile, listen (or have a bite of) one of my favorite pieces of music!

We have band : Honeytrap
Kylie Minogue : Slow
All Saints : Pure Shores
Jamiroquai : Cosmic Girl
Charli XCX : Boom Clap
Lana Del Rey : Summertime sadness
Florence & The Machine : Ship to wreck
The Beach Boys : Kokomo
Bryan Adams : Summer of ’69
The Coronas : Just like that
Julien Doré : Chou Wasabi
The Corrs : Breathless
The Beach Boys : Surfin’ USA
Olly Murs : We still love
Nora Jones : Sunrise
Lana Del Rey : High by the beach
Westlife : Swear it again

Sea, Sand & Sun

· Fashion, Travel

As I recently told you, I won’t have any long holidays this summer: only exception this weekend of August 15th, because I heard the beach calling… so destination Le Touquet!

 

FROZEN SUMMER FUN

And what a pleasure once there to find this sand sculpting event called “Frozen Summer Fun” (very good timing since I had missed it last year in Ostend): most of the Disney characters were made with wet sand, with a stunning precision.

There’s a leg missing “Up” there but this is my favorite sculpture!

My favorites: the super-cute grandpa from “Up”, The Sleeping Beauty castle and Pocahontas (however, I found Olaf’s face from Frozen a bit strange).

Star Wars was also honored but what a shame, no one thought about making my so-loved Obi (E)Wan Kenobi… He He!


My Outfit

Biker jacket Paul & Joe Sister
Tee-shirt Petit Bateau
Pants Vero Moda
Espadrilles R Essentiel (already seen here)
Bag Sézane pour La Redoute (already seen here)
Watch G-SHOCK S-Series Casio (already seen here)
Sunnies Sheriff & Cherry
Bracelets Dinh Van, Mya Bay
Rouge à lèvre « 16 Place Vendôme 364 » Color Riche L’Oréal
Eyeliner Super Liner Black Lacquer L’Oréal

Paper Towns

· Illustration

Let’s take a fashion-break: here’s a drawing for the movie “Papertowns” (out August 12th in France) that I got to see at a premiere in June.

If you used up all your tissues on “The fault in our stars” (be it the book or the movie) and/or you’re a fan of John Green’s books, this might be of interest to you, since it’s based on his novel of the same name.

On my part, I enjoyed the movie, even though I must admit I didn’t love it as much as the first one: I was especially curious to see our dear Cara Delevingne‘s debut as an actress. .

 

The movie team in Paris

The actors (Cara, Nat Wolff) and the author John Green were all in Paris for their promotion tour in France, and I was lucky enough to be able to see them in a press conference at the Bristol Hotel.

The conference was a short one (15 minutes!), and I was surrounded by a dozen bloggers/journalists, so it wasn’t ideal to ask my own questions (I did manage to ask one though!)

The experience was interesting though: I got to see how a press conference works, and witness with my own eyes how perfect Cara is (these legs!), and how friendly and laid back Nat and John are.

John, Cara & Nat at Le Bristol Hotel

So, as an improvised reporter, I learned that:

– Cara was going to keep on moving forward in both her acting and modelling careers

– that she was deceived in love by a boy called Robert Kaisersteen (?) when she was 5

– that as a child, she used to collect conkers and pieces of glass on the beach because she thought they were precious stones (this was her answer to my question – wait for it : “Do you, like in the movie (where there’s a collection of black Santa Clauses) – have a tendency to collect unusual things?)

I also got to see that Nat and John were actually really good friends in real life, and that John didn’t really know Cara before casting her, following the -wise- recommendation of an assistant who sang her praises. He was convinced by her performance during the casting.

Cara and Nat also get along really well. The first says of the latter that he is a “ray of sunshine” and Nat isn’t shy on his compliments about Cara either: “beautiful, sensible, spontaneous, wonderful actress”.

This film might not be the best one to get a full view of Cara’s actress talents ( I find the movie somewhat lacks in emotion in comparison with the book) but it won’t stop most of you from having a good time if you’re nostalgic (or actually experiencing) teenage love issues, the whole thing being wrapped up in a mysterious paper chase ! (English translation by Bleu Marine)

Photo credits : ©Tokyobanhbao except the last one ©20th Century Fox

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