Today, I want to republish – and to have it translated in english for the first time ! – that text I wrote in …2007 about my life as a free lancer. You’ll see that I was totally lazy my working methods have changed drastically !
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I’m freelance so I work a lot at home. How else would I be able to blog at the weirdest hours of the day? What? You blog from work ? Noooooooo…
Luckily for me, my cat gets up early. Right at the crack of dawn, I’m pulled out of bed by my gross gracious hungry feline. I put on some old jogging pants elegant and casual outfit, I drink an espresso a fresh squeezed OJ, and make a nice little breakfast looking at my e-mail out at the sea.
After pillaging the magazine rack down the block doing some yoga, I fall asleep in the bath take an enlivening shower; I dry off looking through some blogs at my planner. For hours later, totally guilt ridden with a sense of accomplishment, I make a few phone calls.
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Ahhhh, I’m so excited to talk to you about Erin!
Erin McKenna here is the super cool founder of the BabyCakes bakery. A “bakery” here in the US is where you find cupcakes (yum), donuts (aaaaah), cookies (iiiiiih), and often they have lattes and you always leave with a big smile… and a rather guilty conscience.
Not at BabyCakes though. You see, not only are their cakes incredibly delicious, but they don’t contain any refined sugars, eggs, gluten or dairy. You almost feel like you’re eating a donut that’s purely good for you. :-)
So here’s a few questions Erin answer about how she decided to leave her dream job as a fashion assistant to go off with no safety net and create Babycakes at 29… And a few years later had a real American success story with 4 bakeries all over the states (one of them in Disneyland!), multiple cookbooks, courage and humor for every curveball thrown her way (you HAVE to watch her videos), and even with all that, right now as I’m talking to you, she’s also got… a baby on the way!
Wow. Inspiring, Erin…
Hi Erin!
You used to work in fashion right? How did you get your start?
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My friends, I’ve discovered the most amazing thing and I know what you’re going to tell me:
Seriously, we’ve been telling you about it for the past 12,000 years. Where have you been, Garance?
Well, It all started when I lopped off all my hair.
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I don’t know why but I’m super into pink right now.
I changed my Google Chrome theme yesterday. I went from cheesy Dolce & Gabbana animal print to cheesy floral by Kath Kidston*. I’m in the middle of redesigning my blog and I’m totally going to replace all the red accents with pink ones**. I am definitely going by Stella to procure these little ones here and over to J. Crew to pick through all the pink stuff I saw for spring***. And don’t even get me started on lipstick…
Oooookay. Come to think of it, pink must be in fashion, actually.
Ok but so with lipstick, I think it’s so pretty on blondes, but pink lipstick on a brunette like me, I’m not so sure…
What do you think?
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* It would be so cool to make a theme for Chrome!
** If you have any ideas, desires or suggestions send them right over!!! If you know of any super beautifuly designed websites, send some links!
*** I have some photos. I’ll show them to you soon!
Translation : Tim Sullivan
I’m wishing you a most wonderful 2012. Did you have fun New Year’s Eve?
This year, I only made one resolution, but it’s so granola I’m not sure I’m gonna tell you…
Wait, whaddya mean granola?
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It’s winter break!!! And for the break, I’ve made a little selection of some never-before-seen photos. You’ll get to see some pretty cool stuff I found. It’s never too late for a good photo!!!
I’ve always loved Eva’s style, but lemmie make a confession (with all the holiday parties, it’s high-time for confessions, right?), I’ve always thought Scott took better pictures of her than I do. I dunno, something just clicks for them. He is able to capture so perfectly the originality of her style…
No worries though, when I found this photo, I couldn’t figure out why I never put it up. I love this look! The short hair, the earrings, her feathery top… (This totally makes me want to wear my feathered skirt for the first of the year!) And something about her just gives her that hard-to-place quality that reminds me of a modern day Audrey Hepburn.
And here’s my most recent photo of her – her hair got longer! – that I took during New York Fashion Week in September… And I didn’t publish this one either! Goodness, what am I thinking?!
Pfffff, I’ll go ahead and say it was all Scott’s fault.
LOVE TO YOU ALL AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR, WHETHER YOU’RE DANCING TO SEAN PAUL OR IN BED WATCHING YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES (which is totally just as good I’ve discovered after a few too many disappointing new years.) LOOOOOOOOOOVE !!!
It’s winter break!!! And for the break, I’ve put together a little selection of photos I’ve never published. You’ll get to see some pretty cool stuff I found. It’s never too late for a good photo!!!
Here’s a photo of Elisa I took a super long time ago. Maybe you didn’t recognize her because she didn’t have her short platinum blonde hair yet!
I remember that day so perfectly. I was shooting her for Vogue. It was one of my first commissions for a real magazine and not only was I not super confident in my own abilities in terms of photography, but I also didn’t know Elisa and I thought she was the coolest girl on earth. I was terribly intimidated.
It’s funny when I think about the whole thing. Today, Elisa is one of my dearest friends and I just love her. Now when we shoot together, I shout tyrannical orders at her “Look over there. No, all wrong, not there, THERE!!!” “Wait wait. Don’t move. I’ve gotta put your necklace back in place. It’s all messed up.” “Noooooo quit laughing, are you KIDDING me?!!?” (She has the tendency to laugh all the time.) If I would’ve known, I would have started doing it earlier!!!
But that’s not why I remember that day so vividly. I remember it because it was the day she first told me she was pregnant. Since then, little Lucio has arrived. The start of a friendship and the birth of baby…. It’s all just too cute. I send big hugs to Elisa.
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Here’s the last photo I took of her (I don’t even try to fight it anymore : I just let her laugh like crazy).
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