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8.06.2009

{Toile de Jouy - parte 2}

I'm in love with fabrics and tissues and in particular I love Toile de Jouy (see here ).


This fantasy in every colors (blu, green , dark read, beige, black...) is the one I prefer. Perfect for pillows, chairs cover, blanket and many others things.




The description of Toile de Jouy on wikipedia is:
"... a type of decorating pattern consisting of a usually white or off-white background on which a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as (for example) a couple having a picnic by a lake. Toiles also often consist of an arrangement of flowers. The pattern portion consists of a single colour, most often black, dark red, or blue. Greens, browns and magenta toile patterns are less common but not unheard of. Toile is most associated with fabrics (curtains and upholstery in particular), though toile wallpaper is also popular. Toile can also be used on teapots and beddings.


Toile de Jouy originated in France
in the late 1700s. In the french language, the phrase literally means "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas", a town of north-central France. Although it has been continuously produced since then, it experienced a marked upsurge in popularity around the year 2000. Previously only a decorating design, designers have been recently experimenting with toile-patterned apparel as well, although toile-patterned shirts were widely worn in the 1970s."

I found (I don't know how!) a fantastic and very usefull blog dedicated to all the Toile de Jouy's lovers (as me) where you can find many pictures about the different Toile fantasies and a lot of creative ideas about what you can do with this beautiful tissue!

The blog



Some ideas...


Then I found this web site The Oasis Company . They have more than 14th different colors of Toile de Jouy.

photo from the web


And more here



Extravaganza...

credits

Do you love it!???

{Covers }

I just found that funny TAG and I want to share it with you!!!

The lovely Alessia from Le Belle Cose made her last post about it and I think it's fantastic. The idea is to make your own "album cover".

This is mine... it looks like a cover of a North European band that makes electronic music!!!

There are some simple rules:

1 - Go to "wikipedia.com" Select “random article”or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover art.
4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. I used Picnik (http://www.picnik.com/)
5- Tag some friends to join in

Don't Cheat!!!


I'm tagging Fede, Iva, Kris Nicole, Dionne, Mel Lindsay A "cherry" disposition, Ennui, Angel.Pearls, The Mezzanine, Dilly Dallas, Forgetmenot, by-geisslein, Megan and Melissa, Saskia

Can't wait to see your Album cover!

Now it's time for bed...

see you tomorrow!

8.05.2009

{Good Morning}

Good morning girls...



just few words and a shoot to Thank You for being so nice and for your comments and for giving a warm Welcome to my new followers.

Love you all!
See you later

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