Tuesday, 14 2010
After last week’s post, I am still thinking about beautiful vintage-inspired pieces. And this week is all about nostalgic trinkets and treasures. So, put a little vintage flair in your step with these picks from The Blue Balloon.
Mixing vintage items with new (antique looking) supplies, Marie Bee creates beautiful jewelry and paper goods in her Milwaukee studio, that are as charming as they are casual. You’ll no doubt find plenty of inspiration at The Blue Ballon for not only jewelry, but stationery,photography, and even a few (adorable) holiday gift tags as well.
And as a little bonus, here’s a happy holidays discount to Dujour readers: All holiday stationery is now 20% off through December 25 (prices have already been reduced. no code necessary). AND receive an additional 10% off your entire purchase (on anything- jewelry, photographs, stationary, even sale items) when you use coupon code ‘blue10′ at checkout. Happy shopping!
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Monday, 13 2010
In time for the holidays! Decorate your tree (or room) with these adorable ornaments by Etsy shop du jour, Recycled Parts! Not only are they cute, but they are made from recyclable, eco-friendly materials. Dujour girls love the ice skates, peace birds, and mini hearts!
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Sunday, 12 2010
This is actually a pain au chocolat in pain aux raisins form and its just one of hundreds ways you can use your frozen croissant or puff pastry dough. Also, this would make a glorious holiday breakfast.
4 ½ teaspoons dry instant yeast
1 ½ cups lukewarm milk
4 cups all purpose flour (do not use high gluten flour for bread!)
½ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup cold or almost frozen French butter (please use high quality butter
for better croissants)
1 whole egg + 2 tablespoons milk, whisk together for glaze
CHOCOLATE FILLING
1 cup chocolate chips
¼ cup sugar
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
PAIN AU CHOCOLAT ROLL
- Roll out the croissant dough to 1/8 inch thick rectangle, spread the chocolate filling (recipe below) evenly over the rolled out dough.
- Carefully roll the dough into a log and pinch the edges to seal, cut the log into eight equal pieces. Transfer to baking tray lined with parchment paper and let rise until double in bulk or for 2 hours (remember to let croissant dough rise in a cool place, warm place would melt the butter in the laminated dough.), after one hour, pre-heat the oven to 400F.
- Prepare the glazing (1 egg + 2 tablespoons of milk, whisk.) and brush the top of each rolls with glazing mixture, bake for 20 minutes or until past golden brown for extra crispy pain au chocolate rolls.
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Friday, 10 2010
ana rubik photographed by thomas schenk for vogue nippon
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Wednesday, 8 2010
Freelance photographer, Ella K Sverdlov, is making me drool. She is the recent winner of Blur magazine & The Impossible Project’s Best Polaroid contest, and I can see why. Look at these photos…
post by Brittni of handmade blog and exhibition site, papernstitch
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Tuesday, 7 2010
Okay, so this can be used for wedding décor; but, won’t this be beautiful to have around the house? We love the soft colors and the materials used. We couldn’t help but share!
via Project Wedding
Materials:
- Chiffon and Tulle
- Paper
- Pen
- Scissors
- Pins
- Needle and thread
- Glass seed beads
- A plain hair clip or comb
Step 1 – Make a paper stencil shaped as a rose petal. Retrace it five times to create a full flower shape. Then cut out the flower.
Step 2 – Take some fabric and fold it into a square a little larger than the flower pattern. Pin the pattern to the fabric and carefully cut it out. Repeat this step as many times as you want, depending on how heavy you want the flower to be.
Step 3 – Stack the flower cutouts, alternating fabric types, and staggering petals. Use a needle and thread to secure them together at the center.
Step 4 – Pinch together the center of the flower from the bottom and secure with stitches to create volume and give the flower shape.
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Monday, 6 2010
Dujour girls love feathers. Dujour girls love jewelry. Dujour girls love feathered jewelry. Dujour girls are in love with this ostrich-feather shoulder jewelry. The End.
Shop the entire collection from France-based indie designer DMetal on Etsy.
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