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Nov 15, 2012 Like

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So long, farewell, are we to say adieu!

Hello, darlings. Well, this is a pretty important post, sweet things. Sparkles & Crumbs is moving. And, I hope, improving! Yep, Sparkles & Crumbs is moving to its own domain, on a new platform,...

Nov 1, 2012 Like

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I never really knew that she could dance like this, she makes a man want to speak Spanish

Shakira, shakira! OLA, chicas! I am really, really loving that Latin American attitude lately. The passion, the joyousness, the sensuality... in fact, my two biggest inspirations this month hail...

Oct 14, 2012 Like

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Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy?

Ola, chicas! Just a little food for thought at the start of the working week... Have you ever had that feeling that life's fabulousness is simply passing you by? It usually strikes when one is...

Oct 8, 2012 Like

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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful...

"I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get...

Oct 4, 2012 Like

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I blame you, Hollywood, for showing me things you never should show a young girl, in a cruel world

Bonjour, mes copines! Now, I don't know about you, darlings - but I have been avidly following our Duchess of Cambridge's adventures [actual and sartorial!] on her Jubilee Tour with a heart filled...

Sep 28, 2012 Like

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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy All the kids are bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden I don't care to beg your pardon,...

Sep 24, 2012 Like

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Let's catch a plane to Barcelona 'cause this city's a drag

Ola, chicas! I'm baaack! And what a wonderful time we had! Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the whole wide world. The incredible architecture... the sparkling blue sea... the bustling...

Sep 23, 2012 Like

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You just let your heart take in a little wind...

...stretch your hands to the sky, and let life take you wherever it wants you to be next.~ Adios for now, senoritas! I'm off to my beloved Barcelona with The Boy! This week has been full of...

Sep 7, 2012 Like

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Oh, food, wonderful food, marvellous food, glorious food!

Can you believe it, folks? This weekend, The Boy and I moved into our very first apartment together! Oh, the excitement. There are books by the bed, and flowers on the table, and Roman Holiday on...

Sep 3, 2012 Like

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"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

Here’s to always having Paris. Here’s to I Love Lucy reruns. Here’s to blowing kisses to Tony Curtis. Here’s to Rhett’s smile. Here’s to all the screams on Hitchcock night. Here’s to the...

Aug 25, 2012 Like

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For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day

~Ciao, bella!Now, maybe it's because I've been sharing an office with a magnificent mama-to-be who is almost eight months pregnant... but I have seriously had super-cute, bababooshka babies on the...

Aug 20, 2012 Like

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In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Ciao, bella!The other day, I received this comment on one of my posts:"I would like to ask something: what if I can't live like the S&C Manifesto says, just because there are some, let's say bad...

Aug 17, 2012 Like

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Shopping is my cardio.

Hello, darlings! This post's title is one of the few things Carrie Bradshaw and I agree on - after all, upon first meeting The Boy, when he asked if I did any sports, I scoffed: "Haha! Walking for...

Aug 13, 2012 Like

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That's what you want to do. Travel while you're young.

"And the days are not full enoughAnd the nights are not full enoughAnd life slips by like a field mouseNot shaking the grass."-Ezra PoundLife can feel like this - especially when you wake up every...

Aug 9, 2012 Like

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Come on now, Maria, lose the tragic, come on now Maria, show me some magic

Well, ciao, bella! On this cloudy grey day in Cambridge, I want to talk about [or, more accurately, start by talking about] ANGER.Anger is not really something I write about a lot on Sparkles &...

Aug 7, 2012 Like

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I am an architect of days that haven't happened yet...

...I can't believe a month is all it's been You know my paper heart,The one I filled with pencil marksI think I might have gone and inked you in Little by little, inch by inch We built a yard with...

Jul 22, 2012 Like

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Why, hello, darlings! I'm BAAAACK!We have so much catching up to do! What an eye-opening hiatus it has been. Between the May Balls, getting a Masters, meeting old Antipodean friends for a whirl at...

Jul 19, 2012 Like

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I'm leaving, but don't worry, I'll be back again

Ciao, bellas!An uncharacteristically short post today, my sweets. What with a fortnight of May Balls, merriment and utter decadence, followed by a frantic job hunt and big decisions being made like...

Jun 30, 2012 Like

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Im putting on my top hat, tying up my white tie, brushing off my tails

~Its just another May Week in Cambridge, mio cuore, and the balls season is here! Which means another heady round of hedonism, decadence, and - of course - dressing up!"Im stepping out, my dear,To...

Jun 18, 2012 Like

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You will hear that she has left the country...

...that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot...

Jun 12, 2012 Like

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If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Well, thats it, my inklings. Its all over!My Masters thesis - and, hence, my time as a student at Cambridge - is printed, bound, done and dusted, come to an end.So, too, is my internship at Chic...

Jun 11, 2012 Like

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Shes the kind of blonde that gets into a mans blood -- even if she has to shoot her way in!

Greetings, ladies and gents!Once again, its another very delayed Stylish Movie Monday this week!I think its high time we celebrate some more masculine style icons, too. And who is more synonymous...

Jun 5, 2012 Like

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Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmines in my mind...

Oh, darlings, the sunshine is finally here...And I am stuck inside, hunched over my laptop like Gollum, desperately trying to polish off my Masters thesis by the deadline on Wednesday!And then it...

Jun 2, 2012 Like

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You just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!

Ola, chicas!A rather belated Stylish Movie Monday this week, I fear - in fact, its technically a Stylish Movie Tuesday!My pick this time around?Overboard!The other week, my compadres and I were...

Jun 2, 2012 Like

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Were gonna come together, were gonna celebrate, were gonna gather round, like its your birthday

Hello, honeys!Ive been away for such a while - because theres simply been so much going on! Amidst luxuriating in this sudden English heatwave, cocktail making classes, finishing off my Masters...

May 29, 2012 Like

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What a swell party this is! What frails, what frocks! What furs, what rocks!

Its Stylish Movie Monday again! And this week, its time to escape into a world of Cole Porter-scored balls, Louis Armstrong-led wedding bands, the wealthy Rhode Island social whirl, and - of course...

May 21, 2012 Like

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What you read when you dont have to determines what you will be when you cant help it.

Oh, darlings - have I got something exciting to share with you all!"Books are medicine, books are life affirming, books are escape, books are opportunities and wisdom and encouragement, books...

May 17, 2012 Like

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But what were you to do if your head was filled with dreams of beauty, glamour, romance, accomplishment?

Why, dress for your dreams, of course!How very true! Oh, and that heady whirl of daydream dresses... the red carpet! Here are some of my most recent favourites:-Love, mended dresses and sewing...

May 16, 2012 Like

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Sparkles and Crumbs

SPARKLES & CRUMBS HAS MOVED

So long, farewell, are we to say adieu!

I never really knew that she could dance like this, she makes a man want to speak Spanish

Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy?

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful...

I blame you, Hollywood, for showing me things you never should show a young girl, in a cruel world

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

Let's catch a plane to Barcelona 'cause this city's a drag

You just let your heart take in a little wind...

Oh, food, wonderful food, marvellous food, glorious food!

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Shopping is my cardio.

That's what you want to do. Travel while you're young.

Come on now, Maria, lose the tragic, come on now Maria, show me some magic

I am an architect of days that haven't happened yet...

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I'm leaving, but don't worry, I'll be back again

Im putting on my top hat, tying up my white tie, brushing off my tails

You will hear that she has left the country...

If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Shes the kind of blonde that gets into a mans blood -- even if she has to shoot her way in!

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmines in my mind...

You just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!

Were gonna come together, were gonna celebrate, were gonna gather round, like its your birthday

What a swell party this is! What frails, what frocks! What furs, what rocks!

What you read when you dont have to determines what you will be when you cant help it.

But what were you to do if your head was filled with dreams of beauty, glamour, romance, accomplishment?

Love is like an empty bottle of champagne: you dont refill it, you get a new bottle.

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