love the leopard print detail

picture from cobrasnake

{happily exhausted + links}

Happily exhausted and yet can barely contain the Christmas excitement . . . shopping nearly complete, weeks filled with dinner reservations, holiday parties and lovely soirées, and now, nearly Christmas . . .

Hope everyone is having a lovely, lovely weekend!

{lovely links before Christmas:}
* 12 lovely things II
* a pretty polish paper chandelier
* all-out festive party outfits
* until dawn {almost like snowflakes}
* perfect for New Year's
* flutters of fabric
* a swish of tulle
* red hair & a bit of lace
* lovely garlands
* a bright and airy space
* currently daydreaming . . .
* an ultra-chic holiday wish list
* black butterflies at dior homme

{images: 1 - Country Home September 2006, photography by Erik Johnson, via interior divine; 2 - ffffound!; 3 - marie claire maison via automatism, all photo-editing by this is glamorous}

{p.s.}
A warm thank you to Hayden-Harnett, for the thoughtful and unexpected gift.

19.12.08 // LONDON // Angel / Double Club

tallulah morton

i know what you wore last season

hope that sparkle doesn't fade

ru_glamour

Le Tour du Chocolat… Bicycle your way to Heaven

This is a dream come true! I found this in the New York Times,
And here’s the excerpt:

“So, on my last visit to Paris, I took to the city’s Vélib’ bike system and mastered a two-wheeled circuit of eight of the chocolatiers that had the best reputations and most glowing reviews in city guidebooks and online message boards. It was exhilarating and exhausting, not to mention decadent. It was a chocoholic’s dream ride..”

Want to cut to the chase? Here is the interactive map and here is the downloadable map

Read the full story: “Le Tour du Chocolat” by Amy Thomas.

18.12.08 // LONDON // Who's Got My Baby Arm? / Moustache Bar / Dalston

Coco Rocha

Well friends, i guess i can technically say good morning cause it just turned over to today!
Finished up another picture from the blogger portrait series.
This one is of Model Coco Rocha, she just started up a blog,
so i thought this would be a fun picture to do for it.
i hope you like it.
To see more from the Blogger Portrait Series Click Here

natural

karlie kloss

my secret indulgence: bershka

Lately I frequent Bershka store at Istiklal,alot.Yes I know its a store like zara,stradivarious or pull and bear.but it feels much more stylish.I love the air over there.I mostly check out each new arrivals whenever I'm there lost.I must be nuts lol.It feels like I can spend so much time looking at whats new,workers,shoppers,who buys what and whats very popular.I will go there whenever I'm in the mood.deal?deal.

Yikes for Late Nights

Wow! Good morning to yawl!
i feel like a Zombie today.
You know when you stay up too late,
and the next morning when you wake up, it feels like someone poured molasses in your brian?
Well, that is me today!

Yesterday, i had to go in to work.
Then, afterward, my brother and i went out and hung out with my friends Ryan & Alice.
We got home fairly late, and then i started working on some drawings i need to do....
ok, i shall stop boring you.
Needless to say, i'm Zombie Dan today.

The drawing today is from the Lily & Gemma Book (Volume 1 of the Character Sketchbook).
but this version is a tweaked version i did last year for the book "Digital Fashion Illustration" by Kevin Tallon.
I hope you like it

Oh yea one more thing...
i climbed out my window this morning and got up on my roof and took some pictures.
posted them on My Image Diary. Hope you like them. :)

{beautifully intricate}

Always many wonderful things happening in art, and as with Karen Knorr's Fables of Nature & Culture, which was a great pleasure to view in Paris last summer, am completely inspired by these beautifully delicate works . . .

Playfully light and lovely watercolour illustrations {above} by Christina Drejenstam. {via creative archive}

Amazingly intricate and beautiful paper designs {above & below} by London-based Russian graphic designer Yulia Brodskaya.

{via today and tomorrow}

i need space to clear my head

it's my party...

power's back! BUTTTT no internet or cable :( so i am at barnes and noble for the moment.

hope to be back in full force soon!

theres something about Kate

love at first sight

Calvin Klein underwear and ads

Its you know...its hot if a man is in his calvins.CK is one hot brand famous for its parfumes,underwear,fashion line and so ads.CK underwear ads are always spectacular and outstanding.Calvin klein ads are also Kate Moss fame ads you know.Shes been famous yes world famous model with ck ads.I remember her face or sometimes half naked pictures posing for a ck parfume or in a pair of ck jeans.she's so young in those vintage ck ads.maybe she should pose in ck in the future too.Although its more Amerikan a sexy and curvy Eva Mendes in cks or naked parfume ads.remember marky Mark in ck boxers?what huge campaign.I remember reading women wanting their boyfriends wear ck underwear like him.women buying ck boxers for their men.

after years now Eva Mendes is the new face of Calvin Klein’s Seductive Comfort Underwear ad campaign.Shes really sexy.more sexy than skinny model because shes curvy and hot.

If we look at old campaigns and the new ones.Kate was so skinny in those pictures.Many people told that she was the one making super skinny look popular.Shes now popular for becoming a fashion icon and styling clothes wearing things in a different pespective and the leading trendsetter of the world.

I like new ads with Eva Mendes.She sells it!



marky mark and kate moss for calvin klein


marky mark infamous picture



the new face and model for ck ads

{christmas time in the city}

Shades of blue, white, gold and pink may have replaced the traditional red & green of Christmases past, and yet . . . there's still nothing quite like the sheer vibrancy of this festively saturated hue that celebrates the holiday spirit quite like red . . .

{images: 1 - cachemire & soie; 2 - martha stewart; 3 - gemma ward, vogue spain february 2007; 3 - tumblr; 4 - gemma ward; 5 - flickr; 6 gemma ward for valentino FW2006; all flickr links above via design is mine}

{glamour on the side:}
* vibrant party dresses
* all-out festive fun {via vanessa}

Long Day... & Castel Glasses

Hey Friends. how was your day?
Well, i'm exhausted.
Been painting for the last 9 and a half hours straight without a break.
i can't wait to show you all it.

The picture today is one i did for Sophie Ward originally for Paper Castle Press.
Sophie had me add some Castles on the glasses. :)
hah Hope you like it.

{passionate kisses}

Came across this sexy photographic series called, kissing couples by Michael Creagh, along with a wonderfully passionate outdoor wedding kiss . . .

{One of my favourite things about Christmas is mistletoe.}

{images: 1 - from the series: kissing couples by michael creagh; 2 - east side bride}

Classic and Vintage in Fashion

Photocredit/source:Cyclotoine/Anthony (bicycle owner & male model);

Matty Conrad (photographer);

Leah Orton (art director & hair stylist from ‘the fix’ Hair Salon, Victoria, BC)

The photos came from Anthony. He is also the male model…along with his two girlfriends.

"The bicycles are my own personal collection. That's me with my track bike and the other two are my girlfriend's rides. The raleigh I no longer own. Both the marinoni I am posing with and the GIOS are bikes I have built/refurbished to nearly show like condition. They are ridden occassionally for their original intended purpose. In other words, the GIOS is used only for recreational road riding (not commuting or any such thing) and the Marinoni is only ridden in velodromes."

You have to admit these photos can brighten up a winter day!!!

***** correction: Neither of these two women are the girlfriend of Cyclotoine (Anthony) They are models chosen to model with bicycles belonging to Cyclotoine and ridden by his girlfriend.