Looking Down

I enjoy looking down as much as I do looking up. Don't you? Mostly when it is grey and I'm carrying an umbrella it is inevitable not to look down. I like the things I find like; patterns, beautiful tiles, words, buttons, dried leaves and the occasional coin. I once found a 50 euro bill, but that was 6 or 7 years ago and it hasn't happened again.

This is entering the Victoria and Albert Museum.

This one is inside the museum.

Written on every corner in London, and I'm so thankful for the friendly reminder as it has saved me a couple of times.

This strange looking symbol was inside the Cathedral in Reims.

And this one is in a new perfume store -Buly 1803- in Paris.

But one must never forget to look up. You never know when a smiling angel is looking down on you and you might miss him (as it almost happened to me). It is not every day that one encounters a smiling angel.

Have a lovely day,
Giova

I love tiles!

I started a collection of photos, they contain a moment in time where I experienced some sort of a big load of nostalgia mixed with inspiration (the patterns and colors are out of this world!!!) and of course a lot of wonderment. Why aren't houses and places made this way anymore?

For me it has always been in my city, Cali that I encounter the most of this tiles; old houses (the "good" ones) used to be the ones filled with beautiful colors! I really don't understand when all this beauty faded away and people thought it was ok to just vanish them. In the mean I'll keep looking for more of them. Did I manage to take you back to your memories of these sweet places?

Have a great weekend! And a happy friday!

Giannina. 

Photos

With all the technology at our reach and the great things we can do with it, one of my favorite things to do is take pictures with my handy phone…all day long. At any given moment you see something that calls your attention and click! (or no click: iphones tend to be so silent). So you take pictures of this and of that and then you realize you tend to look for particular things, for the same things in different scenarios, for the things that inspire you, that make you look further or think deeper. Things you’ll take with you in a photo because maybe its too hard to carry around physically. Little memories captured in a second. Little “obsessions” you continue to catalogue everywhere you go.

Here are a few of my latest obsessions...

If you haven't had the chance to take a look and take pictures with Instagram, I recommend you do. You will really enjoy it! And don't forget to have your camera(phone) ready and be in the look out for something or everything that might inspire you!

Have a beautiful weekend!

Giannina.