architect barbie

Who says architects only wear black? 

I just had to share this with everyone. My friend, Courtney, saw "Architect Barbie" in a magazine a couple of days ago and immediately sent me a picture. This is hilarious.... comes complete with hardhat for the jobsite, blueprint drawings, and the house Barbs designed. What a smartie! Stylish, too. 

While researching more on Archy Barbs, I found the Barbie Shanghai Store by Slade Architecture. Umm, whoever got to design this is a luckbox, and I am super jealous. It's like my childhood dream. Everything Barbie you could ever imagine! Unreal. However, it suddenly closed in March of this year for some reason. Bummer. Check it out anyway...

Fab.u.lous.

ole parí

Double tune day because I couldn't decide:
Joe Purdy - Paris in the Morning
Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit

I wanted to add some more photos from the Eurotrip on the bloggle. We didn't have a lot of time to spend in Paris, so we hit the big spots and took a river boat tour at night. Main things I will always remember from Paris: 

• Intricacy of the Eiffel Tower
• Most annoying street peddlers I've ever encountered
• The never-ending Louvre
• The Mona Lisa was a lot smaller than I imagined
• Cheap pashmina heaven
• Listening to a harpist play while overlooking the city at the Sacre Coeur
• Mom's attempt at ordering/eating a crepe

Paris was on the last leg of the Eurotrip and by then, mom and I were in serious need of the English language. You can only travel around feeling like an uneducated idiot for so long. When all else failed, we went to McDonald's. True Americans. Here are some of the pictures I took at the most famous landmark in Paris..

We could have spent months at the Louvre. It was impossible to see everything in one visit, and we found ourselves lost frequently. I love the modern meets ancient aspect of the Louvre Pyramid as the entrance/exit to the museum. 

Ancient Egyptians used to worship cats...

raise the roof

I took thousands of pictures on the Eurotrip that Mom and I took after my graduation. One stop was in Luzern, Switzerland. It is a gorgeous city surrounded by the Swiss Alps and right on the lake. Right when we got there [by train] I see this massive modern building with a roof that cantilevered farther out than anything I've ever seen in person. It was amazing! After we took a ferry that made stops at different ports on Lake Luzern, I had to get up close and personal with this thing. Check out some of the pictures of the KKL [culture and convention centre by Jean Nouvel] along with other shots I took from Luzern. 

Swans were all over this lake! They made my photos so much better. To see more of Jean Nouvel's architecture click here.