{colour inspiration: shades of blush & champagne}

. . . last night, it was cozy by candlelight, but {a snow-covered eiffel tower aside}, there are still many days left of winter, and already, thoughts are drifting to sand between toes, sunlit daydreams and saltwater kisses . . .

{p.s.} more ways to weather winter: bright bouquets & floral jumpers

{images: lace & tea; scan by bluepoolroad, photography by amy neunsinger for blueprint may 2006; patterson maker}

{runway inspiration: elie tahari, new york}

. . . at the moment a little time off, but when it's back to business, it will be belted blazers and high-waisted trousers, gold leather opera gloves and cozy capelets, elegant knee-length hemlines and always classic trenches . . .

{p.s.} more pre-fall picks:
* burberry prorsum
* fendi

{images: elie tahari pre-fall 2011 collection, style.com}

{have an enchanting november weekend}

. . . can hardly believe it's already mid-november -- and happily -- sunny, sunny days and unseasonably warm and it's off to the countryside for a short while, eggs benedict and cozy fires, socks & heels and cashmere camel coats, vanilla scented candles and impossibly romantic long, late-night conversations . . .

wishing you a stunningly wonderful weekend & hope it's beautiful where you are, roséline xo

{a few lovely links:}
* sweet paul: fabulous fall & winter white
* deep fuchsia & everything beautiful
* recipe: crepes with honey lavender roasted persimmons
* cire trudon: a history & fun candle projects
* design: wooden frames
* architecture: barthelemy & ifrah
* pretty, pretty: laser cut bunting
* at home: black walls for every room
* perfect for gift-wrapping: paper carnations
* colour inspiration: golden days
* design: delishop take-away
* vignette: memories of autumn {via aged & gilded}
* vintage packaging: listerine
* autumn to winter: grey & black
* just for fun: a video
* holiday inspiration 1: floating candle centerpieces
* holiday inspiration 2: bay & square boxwood {via stephmodo}

{as always, a few things you may have missed:}
* travel: the south of france
* colour inspiration: red wine & ripe cranberry
* at the shops: the perfect leopard print coat
* lookbook: elizabeth & james
* table for two: an espresso & cinnamon sugar biscotti
* hello & a few things
* happy november & the promise of things to come

{& new for the weekend:}
* beautiful details: patterns & textures
* photographer: michael paul, london

{images: a glamorous little side project}

{décor inspiration: tufted velvet & drops of crystal}

. . . have always held a special fondness for velvet, and especially tufted velvet, {and anything tufted, really}, and as the bright late-autumn days drift slowly into long winter nights, there is a longing for decadently warm and elegantly luxurious textures -- golden velvet against driftwood and snow-white faux fur beautifully intermingled with crystal droplets falling from silver candelabras and glittering as shooting stars on a crisp november night . . .

{hotze eisma via the ever-inspiring the diversion project}

{colour inspiration: red wine & ripe cranberry}

. . . when you combine the work of a fashion photographer and an interiors photographer, there is magic in the air, and an intermingling of intricately carved headboards and patent leather peeptoes, cranberry-coloured satin and sexy tousled hair, warm wool blankets and beaded gowns with velvet sashes, and all enveloped in warm and woodsy late-autumn tones of red wine and ripe cranberries, just in time for the holidays . . .

{images: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 - photography by david prince via my paradissi; 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 - editorial: cranberry karolina , karolina kurkova by alex cayley for numéro tokyo no. 42 december 2010 via noir facade}

{have a beautiful weekend + links}

hello again! perhaps a little astonishing how quickly the time has flown, as it would seem as if the days are fading beautifully into one, and after a wonderfully busy and rather eventful week, spending a little time lost in love and the possibilities of the night sky, enveloped in floral linen mornings and, most of all, languidly late afternoons spent lounging about . . .

whatever your plans may be, hope you're having a beautiful weekend,
-r. xo

{p.s.} only just discovered {this lovely post} earlier in the week -- a million thank you's x

{a few lovely links:}
* autumn inspiration: french country luncheon
* for the market: totes
* pretty, pretty: chantilly & rhinestones
* last look at summer: a perfect treehouse
* inspiration: twenty-six
* at home: built-in shelves
* wedding inspiration: east coast
* fashion: the boys department, new york
* recipe: coconut cupcakes
* shopping: white after labour day, one & two
* at home: a fall kitchen
* travel: castello di vicarello in italy

{as always, a few things you may have missed:}
* at the shops: billy bride jewelry, australia
* runway inspiration: luca luca, new york
* at home with: fashion designer jennifer nicholson
* colour inspiration: dusky taupe

{new for the weekend:}
* décor: a sense of grandeur
* travel inspiration: tahitian dreams


{angela lindvall by camilla akrans for harper's bazaar}

{colour inspiration: dusky taupe}

. . . afternoons are still wonderfully bright, but evenings are beginning to arrive earlier, and with them, a surprising briskness to unaccustomed summer skin, and already this past weekend, faux fur stoles and soft cashmere scarves and the longing for luxuriously warm textures, velvet and tweed and satin-trimmed coverlets -- and even warmer hues and tones, featherstone and champagne and deliriously lovely shades of dusky taupe . . .

{images: 1 - photography by nastasha; 2 - elle decor via mochatini; 3 - lonny magazine; 4 - simply seductive; 5 - country style magazine (australian) via daily imprint; 6 - a glamorous little side project}

{interior designer: tom scheerer}

. . . early autumn days always bring back thoughts of overwhelmingly cozy and welcoming rooms like the ones by manhattan-based interior designer tom scheerer -- overflowing in natural elements of wood and wicker, and luxurious textures of fur and velvet, a warm & woodsy palette steeped in a wonderfully relaxed modernism, and best of all, always beautiful and classic pieces such as the insanely stylish white and gold four poster bed made for dreaming of september sunsets . . .

{p.s.} reminds me a little of this collection

{images: tom scheerer via domicile interior design}

{late summer, early fall}

. . . intricately panelled walls, juliet balconies and elegant fireplaces, floods of dusky and romantic light and stunning chevron floors -- if one could describe the beautiful and all too fleeting moments between late summer and early fall, perhaps it would as this . . .

{p.s.} more perfectly ornate walls:
* happily ever after
* gilt & chevron

{also:} a corner fireplace

{images: b&b italia via marcus design, haute design & a previous post}