A Very Special Announcement

Ok, so it is a huge cliche but there is no place like Paris in the springtime, except maybe Morocco, but this is spring week so I am not going to bypass the overstated! I hinted that there would be some special events and exciting developments here at the LL&O blog and today I can reveal that I am going international! In fact *I* is becoming *we*. I am stupidly thrilled and uncharacteristically teary eyed to introduce you to Mathyld, aka Miss Encore Petit, our Paris correspondent and brand new contributer at LL&O. Yes, yes, yes!

I know Paris fairly well and thought it would be wonderful to delve a little deeper into this magnificent city. I think Mathyld is a super star, she lives in Paris; what could be more perfect? I knew that Mathyld would make a superlative Paris correspondent as she approaches everything from such interesting and unexpected angles, she also has a finely tuned aesthetic sensibility and writes so engagingly. I am jumping up and down with delight at the result. Mathyld’s first article for LL&O is coming up a little later today, it makes me want to jump ship to Paris. Enough of me, let’s embark upon a fantastic voyage of discovery now with lovely Mathyld.

Hi there! First, I’d like to say that I’m honoured to be a guest here at Lou Lou & Oscar. Lisa was my very first Etsy customer and I’m pretty proud to now call her a friend. My name is Mathyld, I am half French, half French-Canadian. 19th century (mostly British) Art is my ultimate passion. If you come across a girl screaming and/or weeping in front of a Preraphaelite painting or a piece of Arts & Crafts furniture, that might be me! Also, I love riding my bike and attending punkish gigs on stiletti.

I moved to Paris twelve years ago. I always knew that it would be the case. So did everybody around me. I love London & England more than anything else. But Paris is my town. It’s the place where I sigh in wonder every time I take my bike and cross the river Seine through one of its many bridges. It’s the place that makes me stop doing things when the sun comes right after the rain. Just to watch. It’s the place that makes me cry when I wander by some monument at night. As for crafts, I’ve always been into crafts, but it’s very recent that I dared to show my ‘creations’ off to the World!
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___mathyld___

You can visit Mathyld in these places too:

Etsy Shop
Encore Petite Blog
Flickr

*Print at the top of the post from Labokoff.