Glamorous Review of Ooh La Frou Frou Girl Alex ... Close Up!

Happy Monday, Darlings!

I've so enjoyed the Glamorous Reviews of the

eight illustrated girls of the cardline

these last few weeks

and I hope you have too.

We've had seven Glamorous Reviews so far.

If you've missed any of the previous Reviews

and would like to not miss any adventures,

just click on each girl's name below and you'll be transported!

Hope, Tiffany, Cherie, Aimee, Belle, Sunny and Violet

That means that the final Review is our card line cutie
with the lush, fiery mane of hair ...

Did you know ...

the girls of the card line

 represent fabulous Y-O-U?

More than likely, little pieces of each of the girls

can be found in each of you too.

I'd describe Alex as

part fashionplate ~ part domestic goddess.

If you saw Alex walking down the city street,

you'd see a sophisticated and chic beauty

with auburn hair flowing in the breeze ...

and isn't red hair on a woman devastatingly mysterious?

But did you know

 that Alex also

loves to whip up luscious and dreamy desserts

in her beautiful kitchen?

Entertaining is one of her passions.
Does that sound like you?

She's always looking for new ways to

"glamour up" a party ...

via

and looking for new ways to spell out how much she adores her friends ...

via

via

She collects recipes galore ...

always on the hunt for delights that would make a

"chic treat"

at one of her parties

~like this one~
from

The Curvy Carrot

Raspberries in Zinfandel

Alex's idea of fun at the end of the day is to:

~kick off her heels~

~drop her jewels into the silver compote on her dressing table~

~slip into a silky bath~

~slide into a soft, long white summer chemise~

~open her terrace french doors to the evening twinkling lights~

~and turn on some sultry tunes~

She then feels restored and ready

to pick up her phone

to invite a few friends over

for perhaps flutes of pink champagne with crushed berries
and tasty nibbles she's so good at whipping up.

So far we've seen Alex on the

following Ooh La Frou Frou cards:

(clockwise)

Chocolate Wishes, Tulip Party,
Glamour in the Garden and Glamour Girls

Also:
All of the girls appear in the new
"Summer City Girls"
boxed notes:
(Alex is the girl on the left side of the table in the fourth card)


~A Quick Look Back at Alex's Previous Posts~

In "Alex's Ooh La Frou Frou Fantasy"

she mentioned that she sometimes feels a little rather like

Nicole Kidman with her flowing red hair ....

and like most of us, she loves to imagine wearing haute couture ...

and Nicole's pink feather Karl Lagerfeld gown in the Chanel campaign

was certainly one to dream about ...

via

And in that same post, Alex's couture fantasies took a whimsical turn ...

she imagined being the star of a gorgeous ad campaign
like Scarlett Johansson's photoshoot for Moet and Chandon,

and that beautiful pale blue gown ... 

via
... but in Alex's fantasy, resting on her knee

she may have one of her mouth-watering luscious dessert creations ...

In our post about New Year's resolutions called

"A Glamorous New Ooh La Frou Frou Year"

Alex thought she'd love to put an arched mirrored door

in her kitchen ...

via

and her New Year's resolution was to

organize all of her own recipe creations ...

for those someday-cookbook-author dreams ...

In yet another post called:

"A Fashionable Soiree"

we saw how much she loved the oval window

in her kitchen ...

and the importance of a wardrobe of glamorous aprons ...

But lest you think Alex is ALL about the kitchen,

let me clear that up for you.

Alex is quite the glamour girl.

In a post called:

"Glamour in the Garden"

she invited spring in and

we saw her elegant apartment terrace.

In the "Glamour in the Garden" card introduced in that post (below),

we see that even gardening finds her looking glamorous ...

I simply love her couture tulip gown ...

So, you see, Alex is quite an enigma ...

a glamour girl extraordinaire ...

that has a lust for creating divine food ...

To celebrate Alex's fabulous personality,

I thought it would be fun to

share some images that combine her two loves:

~glamorous fashion and food~

Let's see ...

need flowers for the table?

Wouldn't this be oh-so-perfect for a

fashionista like Alex (or you)?

Is fashion delicious, you might ask?

We say ~ oh, yes!

Above Flower/Food Fashion Images via 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14


Ready to see a quick rough sketch of where Alex lives in the city?
We know a couple of details about her home already ...

that she has a lovely white marble kitchen with

oval window and sparkly chandelier ...

and we know she has french doors that open to a terrace ...

but this is the first time you've seen the exterior ...

Alex lives in a very elegant, brick 35-story
fantasy highrise apartment building in the city

called "The Gardens."
Appropriately named, as the upper portion of the apartment building
has two levels with lovely wrap-around brick terraces.
Alex lives in the lower terrace level of the two,
in the center portion of the building that juts out
(see arrows).
See Alex's brick terrace in the center?
Her terrace isn't open to her neighbors, as there is a brick half wall
on either side, enclosing it.
When she opens the single french doors of her living room,
she has quite the view!
Alex's oval kitchen window in on the right side
of the area that juts out (not visible in this sketch).
You can see Alex's terrace in the "Glamour in the Garden" card above,
with boxwoods and hydrangeas.

Below is the rough sketch of the top 12 floors of her 35-story
apartment building:

At street level, the center of her building
is the entrance into a grand apartment lobby.
Flanking on either side are retail spaces ...
she often stops in at Espresso
for a cappuccino to start her morning.


Now we know where each of the girls live in the city ...
we've set the stage ...
our Reviews are now complete
and lots of glamorous adventures lie ahead!

Thanks for joining us today for the eighth
Glamorous Review!
I'll finish by letting everyone know

that I'm going to be away for a couple of weeks
on a summer beach vacation ...
I will put up some beautiful beach inspiration
on those weeks while I am gone
and our regular posts will resume after that!
Even though I'll be gone,
I'll be able to read all of your comments on my blackberry.
I'll get back to you with responses
when I return!
So come back next week to
enjoy a little summer fantasy in the sun!

All illustration in this post
is by the artist and creator of
Ooh La Frou Frou:
Sandra Shelton Markwalder.

The photos used in this post do not belong to me.
Links are either provided above or:

Website printed on the image of photo 1 of redhead

The photos 6-8 (referred to below) that you see above
were already linked on this blog
and we are simply referring to them again.
If you go back to the original post we are referring to,
you will find the links for the following images.
The links for those posts are mentioned in the post text above
.6. Nicole Kidman in pink feather gown is a Chanel ad.

7. Scarlett Johannsen

8. Kitchen with arched door