The girl who levitated through Tokyo

All photos taken from yowayowa

One of my friends loves to take photos of herself jumping, so we started a mini-series of us jumping in various locations around Europe. However, our photos are nothing like this delightful series of 'levitational' shots of a pretty girl in Tokyo.

What I love about her photos is how serene she looks in her levitations. She really does make you believe she's walking on air.






Also, I can't help but compare her to one of my favourite animes The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.



See the resemblance? Maybe she can leap through time. :)

See her blog (also with lots of cute photos of her cat)

Breakfast project

Breakfast for me is always a hurried affair taken at my desk at work. Seeing these photos from Flickr user bamsesayaka's Breakfast project makes me want to wake up earlier, slow down and enjoy the morning sun and prepare a nutritious, delicious and fun meal to start the day.

Another two blogs I love for their photos of breakfasts (and other meals) are Simply Breakfast and It will stop raining.

Kay Nielsen illustrations

I grew up on a diet of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, packaged in beautifully illustrated books, of which  the Edmund Dulac and Andrew Lang books were my favourite. Even though I'm now an adult, I still have an eye out for beautiful books, and take great pleasure in keeping and building my collection of fairy stories.

Today, I discovered Kay Nielsen, a Danish illustrator who was around the same time as Edmund Dulac. Just like Dulac, I love his beautiful use of colour and detail to build a fantastic fairy world. The pictures here are from 2 of his books:

East of the Sun and West of the Moon



Twelve Dancing Princesses




See more illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Twelve Dancing Princesses, and other fairy tales.

Cake is art (or art is cake)

The people at Martha Stewart are absolutely genius. This time, they've taken inspiration from works of art and recreated them into wedding cakes. Love love love.





See the full gallery

Carl Kleiner's portfolio

Carl Kleiner is a photographer based in Stockholm, and I'm in love with his quirky portfolio. Go have a look.

Beautiful food styling from Helene Dujardin

Thanks to the wonder that is Twitter, I stumbled across Ms Dujardin's gorgeous portfolio of food photos. It took me a while to realise that I'd actually come across her photos before - on her beautiful blog Tartelette, from which I've drooled over and gotten inspired many a time. I love the light, airy, clean feeling in her photos, and how the food looks so vibrant, delicious and alive. I'm also very envious of the wonderful collection of tableware.

Beautiful cherry blossoms

One day, I want to go to Japan and see the cherry blossoms in bloom.








More beautiful photos in the NatGeo gallery.

Paris is pastry

Paris is sweet, literally. Watch this little slideshow of beautiful desserts in Paris. I'm pretty sure quite a few of those sweets are from Sadaharu Aoki. This makes me want to go to Paris right now.








Found via dress, design & decor

Sharyn Cairns photography

I know what I want to be when I grow up: a food stylist/photographer. Sharyn Cairns, a Melbourne-based photographer, has convinced me of that from looking at her beautiful website. She takes absolutely gorgeous, lush and warm photos of food. She's got some other lovely photos of interiors and people, but it's the food that really grabs me. Her images make the food jump at you - you can almost smell and taste the flavours. Beautiful!

See Sharyn Cairn's portfolio.

Colours in a room

This 19 year old graphic design student from Montreal has the most charming apartment. She's got a wonderful eye for colour. Also, that reminds me - I should get a cake stand.






See more pictures of her apartment.