Monday, January 19, 2015

I Think It Is Entirely Possible...

...that, even as a child, 
Zero dreamed of becoming a Lobby Boy
in a Grand Hotel...!


I found this little doll stashed away
in my mother's things.
He was dressed in some horrible little outfit
my mother had made for him from a sock!
So, with his big, bright eyes,
I took one look at him and thought
I could transform him into Zero The Lobby Boy
from The Grand Budapest Hotel,
one of our favorite movies of last year!


I repurposed a used pillowcase
and with a bit of thread and paint
"Et Voila!"

Mr. V very kindly took the pictures for me!


(This great .gif of Zero is from my Pinterest Board

And just so we are clear, my next project will NOT be frozen blood popsicles from our other favorite movie of last year, Only Lovers Left Alive...



But you can have fun watching Tom and Tilda as Adam and Eve enjoying theirs and having a very interesting conversation!

Oh, and in case you missed seeing Ödland live on Friday afternoon, their mini concert is here, where they performed a new electronic version of "Les Yeux de l'Oiseau":



I see they also have other installments of their "Bedroom Sessions" planned as well!

Bravo à nos amis d'Ödland!

Thursday, January 15, 2015

On This Snowy Night at The Gossamer Tearoom...

Hello Dear Friends,
Come closer to the fire and I will bring you a cup of tea to warm you...

Here at The Tearoom, we are hoping all our friends are having a wonderful New Year so far!  Ours is good here with lots of days and nights just staying in, working on projects.  Luckily, we have some fun things to look forward to, as well!

Tomorrow, Ödland, our new favorite band that we discovered last year will be performing their first live online concert!!!  Click here for more information!  They will be playing live at 8 pm Paris time , which will be 2 pm on the East Coast of the U.S.  And in case you won't be able to see the performance live, Lorenzo will be posting it to YouTube as well, to be watched later!  To whet your appetite for the concert, here's a concert they gave in Lyon a few years ago (I've posted this video before, but it's a great show!)


Here's another great video from the band for their song Østersøen from from album "Sankta Lucia":



Here's a great article about Lorenzo and his directorial partner Vincent Pianina, their video work and a Young Director's award they won for a video they made for a Gustave Doré exhibit at the Musée D'Orsay in Paris!

Also, as usual, our Paperdoll Daughter Victorienne always wants to be someplace else and we are a little less than one month away from Valentine's Day, so I designed a new digital collage sheet, which is now on sale in Velvet Revived:


This fun new banner coordinates with two sheets I designed
last year for Valentine's Day:



I am also currently working on a secret book project with Victorienne...more on that later (I'm seriously considering learning animation, in order to bring her story to life even more!)

And keep checking back as I will show photos from a small project I have been working on in honor of one of our favorite movies from last year The Grand Budapest Hotel!