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No you are not dreaming at all...

I also cannot believe it! The Wear Lemonade dream continues and becomes reality. Few months ago, the Jonak French shoes team contacted me and asked me to create a capsule collection for the winter season. I didn't have to think a lot and I immediately accepted! Actually, I had something in mind for a while. It is so unreal to draw the shoes of your dreams... I was not supposed to talk to you about it right now, but only at the moment we will launch the collection, that is to say at the end of October/beginning of November. However... The preparation is so exciting, the drawings, sketches, materials, fittings, and soon the visit of the factory, the lookbook... This adventure is so awesome and I really wanted to share with you each step of this collection right now... Am I impatient? Not at all(!).

I tell you the story... When I was little, I didn't like shoes. I only remember a pair of red slippers I had but that is all... It wasn't much fun to buy shoes for me. My mom found a ruse: each year she bought me the same pair of shoes; it was a pair of black or brown leather low boots for winter and classic black sandals for summer. I probably also had a pair or two of slippers or babies to match with my lovely dress and to please my grandmother... Then, it was the teenage period and I started to love shoes! Actually, my passion for shoes appeared when I came to Paris, almost 10 years ago and I knew it for sure when I started my first job at Saint Laurent. I love shoes, all my shoes... I often have shoe crush. Maybe too often.

However, I am a shoe lover but I only make reasonable purchasing decisions, most of the time. I buy nice shoes but not really expensive ones. I don't want to feel guilty because I crashed my shoe jewelries. I have amazing pair of shoes (2 actually) that I do not wear much. Opening the boxes and looking at them makes my happy, like if I had collection pieces. Anyway, just to say that when Jonak contacted me, I told myself that they would make perfect "shoe partners in crime". To me, they have a real product culture and they are really attached to the quality/price ratio. I thought it would be a good idea to collaborate with them because they have the same state of mind than Wear Lemonade, which is to offer a European production with fair prices.

For this collection, I wanted to draw 7 must-have pair of shoes that we all need to have in our closet. From the heels to the low boots and the slippers... declined in different colors and two versions: a crazy and a classic one... Everything will be associated to the next Wear Lemonade collection! It is going to be amazing!
Tell me what is your shoe must have?

I send you biggggg kisses!

Translated by Coralie Clair

To read this post in French, click here !

Here we are my little chickens,

Holidays are officially ending for most of us, and we all are back to school/work; it is going to be okay I promise! Today is the D-Day, I sharpened my pencils and took my backpack, and at the studio, it is the launch of the Nina jumpsuit! Hello Nina! She cannot wait to meet you and become your ally for this new year... Nina is available on WearLemonade.com in two ready-to-wear crêpe versions: ultramarine blue and stripped navy blue and white. You can also try to do it yourself thanks to the pattern and the video that you will find down below! About the right size, if you are between sizes you can take the size down! All the needed information are in the product description!

If you read the post about Nina's launch you already know this but this week (until Sunday) we offer you the possibility to win 3 pair of Stan Smith from Adidas to complete your outfit. How? Thanks to golden tickets! In your Wear Lemonade orders, you may have the chance to find one of the 3 golden tickets! All you need to do is send us the secret password you will find on your ticket (they are all different), your size and the model you want and you will receive the grail of comfort! You can customize them with Mexican pastas, polka dots, and tapes... I count on you! I just love the idea of the golden ticket, this double surprise: for me, it is always like Christmas when I receive something in my mailbox, and discovering a second gift is just perfect! I won a concert ticket once thanks to a chocolate cake box...

All you need to know about the pattern:

• You can buy the pattern with the nice packaging, the instruction booklet and the tag here for €12,42.
• You can download the PDF version of the pattern for €1,66. There is no booklet but you still have the video to help you and a special sheet to put everything in the right order. You can print it in A4 or US letter.
• The degree of difficulty is "Quite Easy". The pattern is very simple. There is just the elastic step that is more difficult.
• You will need 3m of fabric to sew Nina (with 1.45m of width = classic fabric roll). We advise you to use a synthetic or natural crêpe or jersey.
• You will need some bonding tape (around 1m) to solidify some pieces such as those around the neckline and maybe the pocket flaps if you use a soft fabric.
• As a reminder: in all Wear Lemonade patterns, the seam allowances are included in the pattern (about 1cm except for the hems)!

If you have any question, do not worry; you can contact Laure the queen of the patterns: [email protected]

Do not forget to send us your creations: [email protected] so that we can post the pictures in our Facebook albums, check this out!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Hello my little kitties,

I could have given to this post a title like "no filter"... These pictures are directly coming from Eleonore Bridge's camera, without any filter or modification, and this gold light is completely amazing! We took these pictures during the last days of our Canadian trip, at Tofino, the light was so perfect at the end of the day... I couldn't explain it more than these pictures, it was warm, nightfall, we were on the other side of the world and we knew that this sunlight would not last forever... It was so nice to try to stop this magic moment for a while. You know, when the holidays end it is always the best moment, but time goes so fast, like a sunset...

Time also goes fast when I am with Mai from Super by Timai and that she teaches me how to take into account the colors around me, when Eleonore opened my eyes about light and during magic moments. Well, I wasn't blind before meeting both of them either... but Mai is very good at teaching and Eleonore really loves sharing her photographic discoveries. I feel like this new scholar year is going to be awesome and I would like to learn more about colors, associations, and being able to take better photographs, maybe I will change my camera...

September is very exciting because it is the right moment to have feedbacks about our January's good resolutions and take new ones. As I said, I really would like to take some colorful risks and have fun associating audacious colors in my paper creations, drawings, and maybe in new patterns for Wear Lemonade. Do not worry; I do not want you to look like clowns either! Being subtle and just in the color... About photography, I feel like it is never ending (new techniques, modifications, materials, methods) but I will have so much fun in this new office! Then, as I told you yesterday on InstagramI would like to learn more about lettering! So much work to do! What about you? What are your good resolutions for this new year?

I am wearing an & Other Stories dress but this one is also so adorable. My comfy Levi's jacket, golden shoes from La botte Gardianea peacock blue hat from Goorin bought in Vancouver and a new adorable Gemmyo little ring (Ischia).

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Happy Friday my little butter hearts!

The week was so short, summer too and next Tuesday we are going to celebrate the eighth month of 2015! Who pushed the time button? I hope you all spent nice holidays and that you landed carefully! On our side, everything is fine, and I can announce you officially that we finished the redecoration of the Lemonade Studio! Ok maybe there are still some wallpapers to put up and plants to buy but most of the work is done and I cannot wait to show you (suspense suspense). We are also going to organize night Wear Lemonade workshops very soon to welcome you more often here... Cannot wait to see you there! Make this even more real!

I wanted to thank you for your holiday pictures! When you saw a lemon, a lemonade stand, a small bike, or a stripped parasol! You are so cool and it makes me very happy! Thank you for everything, my heart is full of love right now!

Let's go back to the topic! Today is Friday and I wanted to share with you a cookies recipe so that you can eat them during the weekend. This association is quite surprising (I tried it with my friend Eleonore Bridge in Vancouver in the "Beaucoup Bakery" café. I tested 2 or 3 recipes adapting them to reproduce as I could this little delicate and surprising sugar explosion! Rosemary, sea salt and dark chocolate together are completely amazing... And I normally don't really like chocolate...

To make these cookies, you need:

• - 200g of chocolate
• - 100g of sugar free cocoa
• - 60g of semi-salted butter (room temperature)
• - 160g of brown sugar
• - 2 eggs
• - 250g of flower
• - 1/2 tea spoon of baking powder
• - 1 spoon of sea salt
• - 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• - 60g of chocolate chips

Preheat oven at 165°C and then melt dark chocolate (water bath). In a bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric whisk until you get a whiter mixture and then add eggs slowly. Once the chocolate melted, add it to the eggs/butter/sugar mixture. Mix the whole and add rapidly flower, baking powder, sea salt and cocoa. If the mixture is too sticky, do not hesitate to add flower again. At the end, add the rosemary that has been chopped finely and the chocolate chips. Put baking paper on a baking tray, form small dough balls (you can use an ice-cream scoop in order to have the same size for all your cookies if you want), leave some space between each of them and put them in the oven for 15min. Then, let them cool on the baking tray before unstick and eat them. Enjoy!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Hello my little lemons!

Save the date and write in your agenda: on the 31^st of August at 10 am, Nina is coming on Wear Lemonade! Let me introduce to you... Nina! I am so excited to show you our next coming piece because Nina could not have existed... I drew it and then I erased it because I thought it was too complicated right after dungarees... I showed my drawings to my friends and they were unanimous, telling me something like "Keep it, if you create it, we are going to wear it for sure!!!!" I cannot say no when it is about my friends who are looking at me with their little eyes you know... For this reason, I put Nina again in the collection but under some conditions! We worked so hard with Laure on the perfect fabric that will fit all morphologies...

It has been really difficult with the fittings on all morphologies we could find but it worked! I wanted a jumpsuit like in the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" movie that we could try on in our bestfriend closet and stole immediately... I wanted to have ¾ batwing sleeves that you could, in addition to the classic way, roll up to elbows for the adventure, or even above for an 80s effect! To feminize the outfit, there are the boat neckline (once again) because we just love it, and a fitted waist but not too much thanks to an elastic! For the bottom, it is a carrot pants form with a high-waist so that you have the sensation to have long legs even if you are 1m60 tall... (true story). I almost forgot to tell you but you have two pocket flaps on the buttocks in order to have a better effect because there is nothing worse than pants that completely do not suit the back of the silhouette...

About the fabric, it is crease-resistant. It is a crêpe (a bit heavy) that gives a nice look to the cut. It is the kind of piece of clothes you can wear at any time: you wash it at night and you can immediately wear it on the next morning and no need for ironing! Nina is one piece of clothes but a complete outfit at the same time and it is perfect when you don't really know what to wear... with red lipstick and heels or just comfy sneakers and a bun in your hair. You can also bring it everywhere, in your suitcase, thanks to the crease-resistant material; Nina is always ready to go! Anyway, I am so excited because Nina is coming next week! I also wanted to tell you that the legs are a bit long in order to fit all girls. Do not worry, you can cut and hem, we already showed you how to do hereor even turn-up and I advise you to mark a little point manually to fix the seams on the sides and here we are! Ready to go back to school/work!

As good news never come alone, the week after the launch of Nina, we are going to put 3 golden tickets in your orders that will allow you to win a pair of Stan Smith from Adidas to complete the outfit (only for clothes orders instead of patterns ones this time)! Remember these pictures of our muse Elodie wearing her white Stan Smith! Save the date, next Monday at 10am, Nina is coming on Wear Lemonade and Make My Lemonade, in a ready-to-wear version for €119 and a DIY pattern for €14.90! I send you big kisses!

Thank you Pauline Darley for these pictures taken in our new Lemonade Studio entrance!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Happy Monday my little kitties!

I am going to make you travel today in order to keep the holiday spirit as long as we can. Let's go to Victoria, a small town of British Colombia, my new favorite place, and I could easily have stayed one or two more nights!

It has been a crucial dilemma to choose the pictures I wanted to show you, more than for Vancouver! For this reason, I also created a Facebook album with all the HD pictures. If you didn't see the post about Vancouver, you can find it here and the Facebook album is here!

It was a real adventure to go to Victoria. We took a seaplane and it was a good surprise. I am not a big fan of planes. I am not that scared but I don't really like when there are some turbulences and I always text people I love before taking the plane... But I am not scared! About the seaplane, I told myself: we are just 10 in the plane, it is going to be complicated, the takeoff, landing, why don't we sink, ok there are floats but we are still talking about steel, it is not a plastic plane... Well, finally it was so nice! No turbulence, no chock while landing, it was just like cotton, literally... And then a breathtaking view from the beginning to the end... I almost would like to try again!

Victoria is the capital of the British Colombia in Canada. It is located at the South of the Vancouver Island and has a border with the United-States. This was for the geographic part because it is always good to know... The city name is Victoria because of the name of the Queen Victoria, obviously... I let you imagine a city with little houses in a British cottage style with many different colors. It immediately made me think about the Main Street of Disneyland...but for real!

When we arrived at Victoria, we discovered a lovely hotel, the Magnolia Hoteland everybody was so adorable. We spent a few hours discovering the city and then we went to an excursion to see some killer whales! We followed your advice and addresses and we ate many French toasts at Willie's. More than looking like a technicolor dream, this little city is obviously full of flowers, and blackberries as big as apricots grow like weeds at every street corner...

There are so many adorable addresses for stationary, jewelry and also concept stores around Douglas Street, Yates Street and Wharf Street, close to Willie's Bakery, and I recommend you to go there and get inspired! I don't know what to say but Canadians are very good at typography and handmade lettering! A frontage with crazy lettering, and I could buy everything in the shop...

After eating and seeing all these beautiful and colorful flowers, we did the sea tour with Orca Spirit Adventures and I was a bit curious to see how these organisms can organize excursions in which we can see these mammals for sure! Anyway, it was amazing to see them! We were at 200m from them, but in the boat hold we could hear them communicating... It was crazy! Eleonore talked to me about the great "Black Fish" documentary about captive killer whales and I directly watched it the same night at the hotel (I recommend it if you did not see it already) and it made the experience even more magical because we saw these wonderful wild animals!

I advice you to dress warmly even if it is still summer in Victoria and sunny outside... I was so cold with my "Mon petit chat" sweatshirt and my jersey skirt that I would have killed for a pullover!

Once back from our sea tour, we wanted to visit the little fishing village we talked about, see the botanic garden and go back to the city to take some pictures with the light of the end of the day... We obviously couldn't do everything; I wish we could stay longer!!!

The port of the Orca Spirit Adventures boat was really close to our first option so we decided to go to Fisherman Village, and we were not disappointed by these little float and multicolored wood homes, I could have stayed for hours taking every detail in picture... I just loved the ice cream there: yogurt, maple syrup and pecan, and I am so hungry writing these lines...

The heart stones collection... The inhabitants of this little village are so nice and this place was a real treasure for us, photographic gold seekers!

We went back to town, still with our cameras, and we felt like children during a treasure hunt! Everything was adorable... and then, I saw a small alley, I turn round and call Eleonore. Tan Fan Alley is a spatiotemporal breach that brings you in the Chinese district of the city but a Chinatown that looks like Disney...

It was completely crazy! In order to have the best Instagram pictures, we went up benches and climbed (yes yes) to find the coolest shots! Everything was so photogenic there (even the phone booths) and the light was perfect... As you see, I am in love with Victoria.

One last... I am sorry, this post is so long but I could not decide because this day was really magic!

We had dinner in a delicious seafood restaurant called Ferris's Oyster Bar & Grill. The food was fresh and I loved these ukulele lamps... Are you interested in a DIY? Then, we came back to the hotel, tired by all these incredible things we discovered, and here we saw the Parliament monument completely illuminated by thousands of small lights and the sky was purple... DISNEY I said!!!!

I send you big kisses and bring you to Tofino next time!

Lisa

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Happy Friday my kitties!

I know, for the people who follow me for a while, you have been a bit surprised to see my hair jungle in my previous post... It is summer time, my hair goes fairer and grows, and feeling my hair tickling the top of my back is a good sensation! I also have to admit that I would like to have long hair again, but not too much... Then, there is my wedding preparation and I want lots of hair; not necessary a bun but we will see the artist's inspiration on the D-Day...

Talking about hair, I can do that for hours... For a long time, I wanted to follow the trend or rather the shorthair temptation, but I am a real hair-lazy person and to go to the hairdresser every 15 days is not really my style. Then, you have to brush it every morning... and sometimes I just want to have a bun! I feel like I have always been a follower. I explain, when someone told me "I love your shorthair", "you look like a doll with long hair", o even when my mom said she "loved" me with long hair but preferred to see my face, my friends, my loves, and so on... I often had the sensation to follow their advice just to make them happy and finally recently, I looked at my hair experimentations and asked myself what really was my favorite look. Just to say that I think I finally found myself and made peace with my hair! Yeah! I like this long bob hair cut period between Sophie Marceau in the French movie "La Boom" and the model Freja Behaand I am now looking for the perfect hair color... I promise, I will not be platinum blonde again, but I will probably try something in the same theme...

Hair break. Today is a little "back to school" Happy Friday, but not too much, I will keep wearing my Paloma dungarees to meet the Indian summer with my Ikea straw basket used as school bag... I am trying to save the holiday spirit as much as I can! By the way, I did not remove the Canadian sand I had in my Stan Smith... 

To find the perfect combo, I mixed my dungarees and my summer basket with a fluid trench coat and a pair of crazy shoes! Now you think I am crazy to ride a bike with 12cm heels... Yes I really did and not only for the picture... You have to practice before but it is very practical and my feet do not hurt at the end of the day!

Today I am wearing an H&M trench you already saw here, a stripped crop top from Asos, Wear Lemonade dungarees, I advise you to choose one size down your usual size, here I am wearing a size S. A lovely pair of shoes from Gordana Dimitrijevic and an Ikea bag!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Hello everyone!

Yesterday was not a sunny day at all, it was cold sometimes and for the first time in months, I wore a pullover in Paris... I felt weird and I heard things like "I love the light when summer ends". My kitties, I have bad news: summer holidays are ending... It is going to be fine I promise. Especially because being back to school is so nice, I love the atmosphere but also when I prepare my outfit on my bed the day before, smell of the book covers, see my friends again and take good resolutions! Here we are, I am preparing a super easy DIY that I just loved to do: a camo jacket, you all have one in your wardrobe... Instead of the denim Levi's jacket, with this one you will loose 15 years and you will feel like if the picture of Che Guevara that you stuck in your agenda cover could be back in your bag at any time... Don't worry, I know how to twist your camo jacket: felt polka dots!

Polka dots again you would say? Yes I know, but when you love... and I think it is a good way to refresh the jacket you do not wear anymore because you cannot throw it away... This kind of paper is often used to write numbers on football/soccer shirts and it is a revolution! A revolution because it is supposed to be used with a special press, like screen-printing... I made some tests and I found that if you use your iron around 160°C/190°C between viscose and cotton, it works!

For this DIY, you need:

• - A military/camo jacket
• - 50cm white velvet paper that you can find here
• - An iron
• - A robust hole puncher
• - A ruler and a pen but not mandatory

Start to make some rounds in this amazing material as if it were paper. You can also make squares, triangles, or even letters, have fun!

If you really want the polka dots to be in order, you can take a ruler and a pen to mark the different places you want to put them. Personally, I found it far better when they are not really in order and even overlapped sometimes... Be careful, there are 2 sides!

Yes there are 2 different sides: one a bit beiger than the other that will be against the fabric and another completely shiny that will be against the iron. Iron the dots during 15 seconds doing some circles in order not to burn the fabric and then take off the shiny part.

Before starting, I advise you to make some tests inside your jacket so that you can set your iron temperature and play with the dots' sides. Here we are! I send you big kisses!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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My little kitties!

I am back today with a new session of the best things we can find in my phone... This month, I would like to introduce to you the app you will not be able to live without... As you know, I am just back from Canada, and thanks to all of you and the Canada tourist office, I now have many nice addresses... Unfortunately, I only have one brain and two hands, so it was a bit complicated to remember every place you recommend us... At the beginning of the trip, I remembered Pauline Darley talking to me about a fabulous app called Mapstrbut I just say, "Map Street".

What is this app about? It is crazy! It is a kind of Google Map in which you can register all your favorite addresses or those you would like to test. You can add any type of address: restaurants, shops, museums, doctors, friends' addresses and you can also customize each section with a different tag and even enter some access codes (so practical)...

Few months ago when Pauline talked to me about this app, I contacted Sebastien, the creator, to ask him if it was possible to share good addresses with our friends and also with you my little kitties... I was not at that time but since then the app has been developed and I have the pleasure to tell you that all your recommendations and addresses we have tested during our Canadian trip are now available in the app, in my account. If you download it, you can add me as friend (I am registered under the name "Make My Lemonade"), enter the following code: 01230 and all the Canadian places are going to appear on the map! It is very easy to use and ergonomic. I am going to start pining during the next weeks my favorite places in Paris and of course the good DIY addresses.

All you have to know about this app: it is free! Only available on the Apple Store right now but the team is still developing the app for other cell phones. While travelling, you can disconnect the 3G on your phone and still use the app and see the addresses (it is quite nice). However, in this situation, you cannot add new ones... I hope you will like this technological discovery. I have 2 or 3 other apps to show you (I am so connected...) and I come back tomorrow with a new DIY because I really missed that!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Hello my little chestnuts!

It has been a long time since I have called you my little chestnuts! I am just writing this post today to talk about the big change in our lives... Our own office, just for us! In the 40 square meters we had before, of course we had the whole sublease space but we did not have the entire office and we were in the entrance by the way... I have the feeling it was yesterday when I talked to you about our office and at the same time, if we count in Internet years, it seems so far! 

Actually, almost yesterday because it was in February... but life goes so fast, especially these last months with the dream team arrival and of course Wear Lemonade. It is all completely new for me, to be as many as we are! For 2 years, I was all by myself and now we are 5. I know I am often talking about that but it is a real revolution, the blog will celebrate its 4^th anniversary next March and the more I look back, the more I cannot believe it. Thus, I only look forward. I smile, sitting in one of the new office corners and I feel like, close to the window, next to the heater, I will never be a bad student... As if the perspective of these 100 square meters gave me the right impulsion to do great things, and nothing seems impossible with all this space! It is like this office was a metaphor of what is really happening in my head, and right now, I can assure you that I am so excited because I have enough space for new dreams!

Obviously, I could not afford it before (lack of means and needs) but I think it was the right time for us. It is not dangerous; I would say it is ambitious!

We are currently renovating the office, and I really feel like a parent preparing her children's room, each of us has her special space... There is also a big entrance that we painted last weekend with my love. A lemonade entrance to welcome all of you when you are coming for your orders, without seeing the chaos of the office... And I let you imagine the crazy workshops we can organize!

I see you all very soon. I have to take off the paint in my hair... Do not worry, more pictures are coming in the next days!

I send you big kisses!

Lisa

Translated by Coralie Clair 

To read this post in French, click here !

Hello my little kitties!

We are back here now! I was talking about the issue of the perfect suitcase in my last Happy Friday post so today I would like to talk about my travel outfit. You will probably say that fortunately I am wearing red lipstick because we could think that I am in my pyjamas... I agree... but you know, I have always thought that we needed to be well dressed to take the plane. However, after a few aeronautic episodes with a skirt a bit too short and a shirt as creased as a shar pei, I finally decided to choose comfort above all... The power of clothes is just crazy! The more I look at these pictures, the more I think I look like an adventurer who travels all around the world with her sweatpants...waiting for her Volkswagen van to be fixed, leaning against a motel wall in a Canadian little town... I don't need many things, just sweatpants, a denim jacket and a pair of hook and loop sneakers, and I see myself on the road...

For this reason, to go to Canada, with about spending ten hours in the plane, I decided to wear sweatpants even if it was a stylistic risk for me, and I have also chosen a stripped shirt for a total epileptic outfit. In my jersey shell, I watched some movies and almost all the Gossip Girl series once again... (Blair's wedding dress!!!!). I think my best travel buddy, after the Paloma dungarees of course, has been my denim jacket. It is like a time machine, when I wear it and I feel like I am 17 again, so with white sneakers, the outfit is complete! Once again I can say that fortunately I am wearing red lipstick!

Anyway, Canada had an amazing effect on me and I now have the energy to move mountains! You will probably have more and more lemonade these next weeks because there are so many things I cannot wait to show you guys! I send you big kisses!

I am wearing a UO top, Petit Bateau sweatpants, a denim customized Levi's "Meow" jackets (DIY here), anBold, crazy and in love" Marry me cocotte totebag, a pair of hook and loop Stan Smithso comfy... and the Farandine Red lipstick from &Other Stories because travelling is also partying! Now it is your turn to tell me more about your travel outfits!

Thanks Elodie for these pictures!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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Hello my little kitties!

I am back from my trip to Canada and I am feeling so good! I had the chance to go there with the sweet Eleonore Bridge for ten days and honestly, I didn't really know what to expect. Before travelling, I often try not to look at wonderful pictures from where I plan to go, because I do not want to be disappointed if I do not see the same landscapes... Thus, I went there, without any expectation and I was so amazed and surprised because it was beautiful! I really would like to go back there now, to go on the Prince Edward Island but also in the Rockies...I think I am going to write 3 posts on the blog, one about Vancouver, another about Victoria and a last one about Tofino and surrounding area, but also talk about a crazy application for travelling and show you some outfits... I warn you, it is going to be a long post because I have almost 2000 pictures...and I love them all! However, I will try to show you only the best and communicate my enthusiasm for this destination!

Part 1: Vancouver... It is a bit curious to see how we spend our time trying to find similarities in the landscapes we discover with places we have been before. Personally, Vancouver made me really think about the Australian Gold Coast but New York too; obviously because of the super modern architecture but also for the proximity with the sea, mountains and forests, and above all, the cosmopolite side of the city. I really love this big city that does not forget to stay green. By the way, in the three cities we have been, the nature was completely part of the urbanism area, everything was green and full of flowers, and I just love it.

The first hours in Vancouver have been a bit complicated because I am always jetlagged. Who is not? Honestly, I think I can fall asleep in my plate when I am in this situation... The first day was so quick because as I could not sleep in the plane, I can tell you that the time difference of 10 hours had a bad effect on me... and it is still the case today!

During the next two days, we explored the city and I would like to thank all of you for your recommendations about the best things to do and not to miss! I will make you a complete list of the next days! Here are the things we have done: Tours by LocalsYou explore and visit Vancouver with someone who really loves this city! This concept exists all around the world and I think it is a great idea to discover a city this way, as if we visited a friend. Our "guide" was the lovely Jenn who speaks French with a nice Canadian accent!

I have to say that Vancouver inhabitants are very concerned and ecologically sustainable, they do respect the environment. There is no trash in the streets and I should have taken a public garbage bin in picture to show you how it looks. Thanks to Jenn, we discovered Yale Town, a kind of Canadian Meatpacking, with many adorable shops: big crush for the Goorin Bros hat store and a decoration shop called The Cross Decor on Homer Street, it was crazy!

• Hat store, Goorin Bros1188 Hamilton Street.
• Decoration shop, The Cross Decor1198 Homer Street.
• Green bar for smoothies: Living Produce Aisle1168 Hamilton Street.

From Yale Town, we took an "Aquabus" (a small bus boat) to go to Granville Island. On this island, you can find a huge shed converted in a huge covered market... In this place, there are different stands with food from all over the world, fresh fruits and vegetables, butchers, fishmongers, stationer's shops. I would love to find blackberries, blueberries and strawberries so easily on every corner of Paris streets at a low price...

Between a rainbow cake and the Harry Potter's brooms factory, I couldn't resist drinking fresh lemonade... Jenn brought us to the Mount Pleasant "hipster" area where we can find amazing little cafés in which we can work, some hairdressers and barbershops. All these things that I love... You can definitely go there, each number is a pleasure for the eye.

During the afternoon, we wanted to visit Vancouver but in another way, so we booked a Foodie Tour. This time, we had the opportunity to discover a new district testing the best food addresses of the city with gourmets. We didn't have to eat a complete meal everywhere but only to try a delicious appetizer here, walk during 5 minutes and then try another treat there. It was a bit fun to hear Vancouver inhabitants talking about their gastronomic treasures, telling us that one place received the price of the best Dim Sum of the city, this ice-cream maker won the ice-cream world cup, or that the best sushi in the world are in Vancouver! I still do not know if it was the best sushi in the word but those I ate at Miku are the best I have ever eaten in my life!

My addresses:

• The best Dim Sum of the city: Kirin, 1172 Alberni Street.
• Tasting session of the local cheeses in the Urban Fare restaurant, 1133 Alberni Street.
• Amazing margarita and some samples of the Shangri-La menu, 1128 West Georgia Street.
• French snacks at the Thierry Café, 1059 Alberni Street. 
• And the best ice creams of the world: Bella Gelateria, 1001 West Cordova Street.

The day after, we rented bikes and we have been all around Vancouver. There are cycle lanes everywhere and it is very simple and safe so no stress. Then, still with our bikes, we went to the Stanley Park, located a few minutes from the city, the giant forest; it was sublime and I felt in love with a raccoon. I know raccoons are not that nice, they steal all the time and destroy everything but they are so adorable, aren't they?

Actually, we didn't see one raccoon but four: the mother and her three babies. My brain instantly became a marshmallow and I probably had a smiley face at this time; you know the one with hearts instead of eyes. Thus I decided that I will tame a raccoon; by the way, do we have raccoons there?

Here is an address if you want to rent a bike: Cycle City Tours and Bike Rental, 1344 Burrard Street. I recommend you to loose yourself in Stanley Park during snack time and buy some berries on the way...

We also discovered another district by ourselves, the Kitsilano one with little painted wooden houses and it was so adorable but a bit more residential. At the end of the road you can find a beach: perfect spot to have a drink and watch the sunset. I want more!

We went there many times a day: the first time to have breakfast in the delicious café/bakery "Beaucoup" and the owner Jackie was so adorable, she was a graphic designer before and then she decided to make pastries in Paris. You have to try the passion fruit tartlets, a real pleasure! By the way, Jackie recommended us a nice restaurant not far from her café: the Farmer's Apprentice Restaurant where there is a unique tasting menu, vegetarian or not, very fresh and delicious.

• Beaucoup Bakery2150 Fir Street.
• Farmer's Apprentice1535 West 6th Avenue

After our adventures in Tofino, we came back to Vancouver one last time, and this time our hotel was in Chinatown. We stayed at the Skwachays.com, a real boutique hotel in the aboriginal style. It was very nice and it was also the occasion to discover a new district. We had great surprises in the Chinese district of Victoria but I will talk about this soon. Writing this post, I made some researches and found that Vancouver was the North American city with the bigger percentage of Asiatic people... We had dinner at the Bao Bei restaurant that I also recommend you; the decoration and the food were a real pleasure!

• Our hotel: Skwachays31 West Pender Street.
• And this amazing Chinese restaurant: Bao Bei163 Keefer Street! Want more! 

About Vancouver, I have to admit that if tomorrow I had to leave France, this city is part of my top 3 of the cities in which I would like to live... I am probably not that objective because we did not have one rainy day, only hot temperatures... but it is certain that Vancouver is a nice city, and I see you soon for more stories!

Translated by Coralie Clair

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