One year

It's been a year since I open "bateaux de papier". One year. I don't know what I was expecting at the time - I was merely led by my interest and admiration for a few blogs I had started following - but I wasn't expecting how much joy, meaning and frienship it it will bring in my life. I have made new friends here, now very dear to me. Thank you, all of you, for being there, for sharing so much, this is precious.

 Paper boats by Elsa

Where in winter ...

Winter in Sologne

Christmas day

Blue reflections

 

Elsa is wearing the beautiful creations of Fei An. Linen shirt and wool robe from Naive days's AW collection "Mongolia, Mongolia!!". This is so precious, thank you, dear Fei An.  

Liebster Blog

I'm very touched to be gifted  the Liebster Blog award by ShannonAnn. Her blog is a magic and gentle window on the marvels of Newfoundland. That's a beautiful present for the new year! Thank you dear ShannonAnn.

The Liebster Blog award is given to bloggers with fewer than 200 followers.
The rules:
1. You are to thank the giver, the person who awarded you the gift.
2. Reveal your 5 blogger picks, and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
3. Copy and Paste the award on your blog.
4. Hope that the people you sent the award to, will forward it to their 5 favorite bloggers.

So my 5  Liebster Blog are

Naive Life Under the Scandinavian Sky, by my friend Fei An. She is a beautiful woman with clear and generous heart. Her blog is a place of delicacy and simplicity, where I find joy and beauty. Had not it been for her encouragements, "Bateaux de papier" might have not existed. Thank you dear, dear Fei An.

Naive Life Under the Scandinavian Sky

Izakoo, by dear Alliot. Because it is a place of stunning beauty, just the most beautiful blog of the internet. There might be millions of blogs, but (for those who wouldn't know Izakoo already,) just have a look and you'll be convinced. Because Alliot is also a rare kind and high-minded woman, whose frienship is one of the most precious presents of 2011. (I'm not quite sure that Izakoo's got less than 200 followers, but as it's not visible on her blog pages ...)

Izakoo

Sara smile, by my dear Sonoko. A gentle place, precious moments of wander in Japan in good accompagny, enlightened by sweet little Sara.

Sara smile

Caramel Caramelo. A place like no other, of silence and poetry, of music, treasures of  dear Kenza. The unknown beauties of Ouzbekistan, and the most beautiful eyes a little boy has ever had. 

Caramel Caramelo

 

Good Night, Olivia by Lilli, also from Mothwise. A place I found, a place to listen, a place to contemplate and think. A place like walking along a slow river...

Good Night, Olivia

It's a pity I'm only allowed 5! There are others dear to me I would have like to see on this list. I specially think of Ce que me souffle le ciel by  Evelyne, and Alma des Brimborions ... choosing is always distressful for me ... 

des brimborions