{a new week + notes from the weekend}

. . . a very late but warm hello! it's lovely to see you again . . . this weekend was miles and miles of sunshine, some time at the shops and a new pair of perfectly chic suede summer sandals with gilded clasps; long walks at sunset and a saturday night film {bill cunningham new york -- [have you seen? so good]} with buttery popcorn; scented candles in the evening and strong coffee in the mornings, a table for two high above the world, with utterly breathtaking views of the city, and gardens overflowing with the intoxicating scent of white lilacs and sweet-smelling secret bunches of lilies of the valley . . .

happy monday! hope you had a beautiful weekend filled with little moments of repose & that your week is off to a perfect start, roséline xo

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a f e w l o v e l y l i n k s
* for the office: stripes & flats
* travel: chenonceau, loire
* pretty, pretty: sheer & pleats
* photographer: martin morrell
* in the kitchen: glamorous gold
* collections: duchesse & bergère
* out the door: with a perfect chignon
* colour inspiration: this palette
* late-spring shopping: this lace strapless dress & these sandals
* inspiration: lazy sunday mornings
* recipe: poached peaches & lemon verbena icecream
* at the gallery: the wallace collection

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{as always, a few things you may have missed}
* monday, monday & all in a day's work
* style inspiration: bright whites & bits of colour
* spring things: closet organization
* shoes, shoes, shoes: rose suede & bits of gold
* hello & early morning musings
* favourite five: actress & writer shiva rose
* summer inspiration: let's go on a picnic
* hello & a few updates



{images: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight & also here | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen}

{weekend musings + late-sunday links}

. . . in the very midst of the most luxuriously relaxing weekend and sundays are always the loveliest of days . . . there has been time for books and music and handwritten letters, lattes and glossy magazines and tables for two at new restaurants, cut-crystal glasses of chianti and daffodils in spring gardens, sunlight on gold leaf and fallen petals on venetian glass, and most of all, there has been time for making plans . . .

hope you're having a wonderfully lovely weekend & that it's beautiful where you are, roséline xo


a f e w l o v e l y l i n k s
* spring things: in technicolour {via poppytalk & making it lovely}
* travel: cappadocia, turkey
* inspiration board: mustard & blue
* just in time for the royal wedding: your very own tiara
* collections: café chairs
* at the office: perfectly pretty kraft envelopes
* at home: grey walls & gilded sconces
* at the side: capsule collection & the colour of daffodils
* from the archives: overcast skies & late-summer pink
* décor inspiration: turquoise silk & lovely bedside tables
* work of art: nebula hand-painted shoes
* colour inspiration: never enough pink

{as always, a few things you may have missed}
* a new week & a few lovely links
* two lovely things: a paris apartment & hermès
* photography: salt caramels
* spring things: kelly green bicycles
* countdown to the royal wedding: a letterpress print
* favourite five: interior designer tricia foley
* colour inspiration: blush, nude & champagne

& n e w f o r t h e w e e k e n d
* spring lookbook: casual elegance
* style inspiration: the french riviera



{images: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 }

{travel inspiration: springtime in munich}

. . . even in mid-february, the city of lights was still {and always will be} beautiful, as it is anytime of year, but the photographs of paris in the springtime, posted at this time, a little over a year ago, were filled with such enchantment, thoughts to return have already been swirling about, not much more than four weeks later, to breath in all the blossoms filling the air . . . and isn't it amazing, the lure of any place, after having seen it in the light petal-tinted hue of le printemps? . . . and so, here, a few magical photographs of the exquisiteness of springtime of another lovely place, just outside of munich . . .


{images: all photography by yvonne bauer, discovered via decor8}

{hello & thursday musings}

". . . il n'est jamais trop tard pour être ce que tu veux être | it is never too late to be what you want to be . . ."

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. . . somewhere, a diary holds all of these things -- the secrets of happiness, and of love, of dreams and plans and the awaiting adventures of far-off places . . .

{image: photography by alicia bock, quote from here}

{wishing you a happy spring}

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

~Mark Twain

. . . and at long last, the eternal enchantment that is spring has arrived, and while winter may have its cozy, fire-lit nights, spring has its breezes by starlight and magnolia blossoms in sunlight, its long-awaited, lingering excitement that soon there will be pleated skirts and picnics, café crème and macarons in quaint light-filled cafés in late morning, and butterflies and golden skies in early evening . . .

happy spring! hope it is filled with beautiful things & new beginnings,
~ roséline xo

{p.s.} spent most of the day, yesterday, out of the office in favour of working in a sun-drenched café, having apparently already fallen to spring fever and there's magic in the air

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{more springtime inspiration:}
* spring green
* spring blossoms, one
* spring blossoms, two


{image: scan by this is glamorous from set with style by caroline clifton-mogg, photography by simon upton}

{photographer: camilla akrans}

. . . swedish photographer camilla akrans never fails to amaze with intoxicatingly beautiful combinations of dreamy lighting and stunning backgrounds, spilling out in mixes of fashion and flowers and fleeting moments, all captured perfectly and unforgettably . . .









{more camilla akrans:}
* upswept hair
* hermès
* countryside
* sequins
* sheer vibrancy
* lounging

{images: edita vilkeviciute by camilla akrans via a glamorous little side project}

{hello + a few things}

. . . dashing out the door -- sexy tousled hair, a light linen summer dress, suede heels and coral lips -- but first, a quick hello and two new & lovely things:

* summertime: a dreamy & languid light
* two lovely things: bits of green

{p.s.} isn't the miu miu bow satchel in palest pink the loveliest thing?

{image: the cherry blossom girl via beautiful things to share}

{inspiration: summer solstice}

. . . deep into summer and it's as many wonderfully languorous hours en plein air as possible, an afternoon spent dreaming away or lost in the pages of a beautiful book and breathing the scent of a million blossoms, or idyllically swinging from the boughs of a perfect tree, or best of all, lilting conversations over an early evening dinner under the cover of the most charming canopy in a shade lost somewhere between lilac and lavender . . .

{images: photography by tim evan-cook for elle decoration uk july 2002 via moodboard}

{colour inspiration: spring green}

. . . the stems of lilies and fluttery dresses, new leaves and the glass of champagne bottles -- whether sage, seafoam, lakeshore or chartreuse -- mornings have been filled with the celebration of spring green . . .

{images: 1 & 5 - scans by this is glamorous, photography by polly wreford for at home with white by atlanta bartlett; 2 - photography by brian park via desire to inspire; 3 - tumblr; 4 & 8 - elena via everything fabulous; 6 - previous post; 7 - martha stewart; 8 - a glamorous little side project; 9 - photography by polly wreford for wedding inspirations by margaret caselton; 9 - endless inspiration; 10 - bèla adler & salvador fresneda via a thing for; 11 - australian home beautiful; 12 - flickr}