A pretty migraine? Something new Pink Saturday is here

My favorite image of Marie Antoinette and new pill box
My new blog/business card with my monogram!

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Migraines are such a pain--pun intended. Even though I know the triggers sometimes I cannot prevent one. I think if I have to take the migraine pills I may as well make it pretty. I just bought this pretty PINK box to hold my pills. I keep it at my bedside so if I wake with one I can take it right away. Might as well make the best of things.
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Pink Saturday and Pink Marie Antoinette

Happy Pink Saturday

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Marie Antoinette is one of my passions-love to read about her, did a tree about her and now I found this lovely art doll at Joanna Thomas Dolls made like a young Marie. Isn't she cute!

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Beauty at the movies

So many movies are wonderful. I tend to like musicals and love stories and comedies. The thing that I would love is to be behind the scenes when a movie is made. How I wish I could have hung around the set of Marie Antoinette (the Sophie Coppola version) "the set "was actually Versailles!! The museum is closed on Monday and they filmed interiors on Mondays. That was the first time the museum allowed filming on site. Some rooms were sort of rebuilt- the movie people had to remove items and make copies and put the copies in during filming. I would love to see the costumes and the folding fans up close.

I didn't know that a lot of movies also have books about the making of that movie. See a few of my favorites here. You can look them up on Amazon or in the bookstore. It is about as close to behind the scenes most of us will ever get!

Is there a movie that you would like to peek behind the scenes? Look it up there may be a behind the scenes book!

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Ooh la la- a vanity table

A vanity table is such a luxury but it should be part of all our boudoir's. I have had to downsize my vanity table so I can use a desk in the bedroom ( to create this blog and other work) and the downsizing forced me to edit my little treasures. Each item has a story or place or a person that I think of when I see it.

I have indulged my inner-French diva on the vanity table! Using a vanity forces one to slow down and make a ritual of the act of preparing to go into the world. It is an intimate part of your bed room and an intimate process of adorning oneself with make up and scent and possible jewelry too.

Claudia Strasser-blogger, shop owner, tour guide,and author, is compiling a book of photos of women's vanity tables - it will be called in book form Vanities for Humanity and proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity. I can't wait to see the book. Her name is familiar because she wrote The Paris Apartment and opened a NY shop of the same name.The new book will be a peek into another world. No wonder painters in Marie-Antoinette's time painted her at her vanity.

That wonderful movie from 1980's Dangerous Liaisons had several great vanity scenes. How I would have loved to go back in time and witness this dressing process.

So make a little area for a vanity and relax and enjoy the process- look at your treasures and recall the person or place that comes to mind.Living in the moment also connects you to the past.