Etsy raffle for the extreme beauty of ordinary days

Hello everyone,

Every ordinary day is pretty and we all risk to lose a loved one....

Lovely items from Sandra

am members who lost her husband to cancer.

It started few months ago not so long ago. She told us her husband was diagnosed as lung cancer. Soon after we had received the bad news. That was really fast. I feel our hands are tied to this cold enemy sometimes. Many of us had lost a member or more to cancer. But as much as the event what is left behind is important. Our friend Sandra lives in Portugal and she has a little son. For those who don't know about the life in south Europe. It is quite hard and as i know social security is not good. Since her husband was ill he could not earn money and she is earning her living from etsy. For those who work on etsy full-time would know how hard to make a living from it. Even as someone sales regularly end of the month with all the taxes and expenses is quite miserable sometimes. So we as europeanstreet team members decided to give her a little push, a little hand to make the living a little bit easier for her and her son for few months. Until they, psychologically ready to face the world.


So we decided a little raffle. Not a simple donation. So by buying tickets you will have chance to win a price. There are more 50 prices. Each tickets cost 5 dollars.
 Tickets can be bought from here http://star-of-the-east.blogspot.fr/


You can also buy something from Sandra. She has very lovely jewellery and homeware.

Here some of the donations.....
I have donated my lovely pink leaf barette.

leaf barette from The ancient muse

Ceramic Lilypad coasters donated by damsontreepottery

Sea urchin ornament donated by GiftsandStars

How to use a hair stick

 I have been hearing this question since a while now. How do you do your hair in your pictures. Well it is a top secret. No actually not... I love hair style everybody can do. Even a 10 years old should be able to do it. It should not be a rocket science to do a lovely hair with a product you have bought. So i keep doing this simple kind of hair in my pictures. A simple braid bun. A very simple one, if you know how to do a braid.




 1- Drive you hair in tree part and start to braid your hair.

 

2- Keep braiding.....
 

3- Now start to make a bun with the hair you have braid. Putting your finger in the middle and turning the hair around it helps the hair to have a good shape.

 4- Secure the end of the hair under your bun. This is a important step to keep your hair in shape while using hair stick.

 5- A little of of tidying is also cool. Check of the no access hair around.

 6- Now placing the hair fork. I have already explained in my previous tutorial. In out and in movements keep you stick in your hair securely. So push the hair stick first inwards then outwards and when it is leaving the bun make a inner movement to attach it with the rest of hair. You need to attach the bun with your hair so the last movement is very important.

 And you are done!!!

French Chrismas gifts

The Christmas bells are ringing? Not yet... Almost....Well if you are working in a fashion or marketing related job in your mind Christmas is here since summer and you are almost arriving to St Valentines:) I am a late person, not an early bird. My Christmas was in my head since 2 months but could nor arrive to my shop on time. Here is my late French Christmas.

In France how we celebrate the Christmas maybe not so different than yours. But gold and silver is unchangeable. Richness of gold give also a bit of Jazz in the air. Love it!!! I can almost hear Frank Sinatra singing. Well this is my part of Christmas not the French one...

 

The winter hair fork

The Ancient Muse deer hair fork

How to use a half circle hair fork

1- Start to make a bun

2- Now you have a bun. As you can see as your bun rolls it divide into 2 sections.
1st and 2nd parts. Be careful to them Because when you are placing any hair sticks in your hair it is important to secure both sides with your hair accessory. Other way the stick will fall down. 



3- Now take your stick and push it to the 1st part of the bun.

4- Next thing is to push the stick horizontally until it reach the level of the second part of the bun.

 5- Now the 3rd movement. Push the stick to the second part of your bun. The tip of the stick will go out of the bun.  Then move the stick to your preferred position and done.
You can try this with different lengths of hair and different styles of hair.

If your hair is still unstable try to pick up some of your side hair  with your stick after the last movement. That will secure the stick.

There is no only way of making your hair. The best is to find out your own way but hope this will be a nice starter.

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DENIM HAIR ACCESSORIES

Since a while i have abounded the idea of wearing jeans. The reason was them not being elegant. While wondering around with my shopping craving I have rediscovered the fun of denim. The blue and from -Not elegant- i have arrive to -The wild one-.
It is true that jean is a piece of American heritage and mountains, lakes, desserts, valleys, everything which is endless and big. I was thinking about all of these and this new design had pop up like a flower in my mind. Here is the blue of the sky, lakes and everything endless and the clear of leather, nature and rustic. A new hair fork- A denim indian.....

The denim

Day dreaming of 18 century

Who want to be in a dream with pastel colors, angels, French cakes, fairy tale ball clothes and giant wigs. Ok maybe there were some slight problems of lack of toilets and bathrooms but don't worry you will have French perfumes to cover the smell. You know what i am speaking about right? Time travel or dreaming about French Rococo.

There are few things i am obsessed in this life. Tea, chocolate, Alexandre Dumas, and Moliere and Lully. I know you know tea and chocolate and maybe Alexandre Dumas and Moliere but Lully is less.
I grow up reading Moliere theaters like watching soap opera.His own life was a like a black comedy though, he wanted to write tragedies and including his own death his life made people laugh. He dies when he was playing "Le Malade Imaginaire " while playing someone who imagine sickness. He had tuberculosis and started to cough people though his acting was very good, so real. But he died in few hours without receiving any priest.
 Jean Baptiste Lully was an Italian composer started to work as a dancer for 14th Lully and soon he become one of the establisher of French opera. He has some gossips about him being in love with the king even a French film "Le rois dance". What interests me is his compositions and hid collaborations with Moliere. Together they have created a new form comédie-ballet combination of theather (comedy) and ballet.
One of the example is Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Which brings you a love story a comedy about a men desperately trying to look rich, Turks, Spanish and Italian people. What can be more amusing than colors and comedy.
The video above is Jordi Savall a very respected musician and his band playing one of Lully pieces i think it is from Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Hope you will enjoy.