It's Christmas Time In The City

~ Hello Lovelies! ~

 is in the air ...
and a certain childlike wonder surrounds us all.
~ The sheer joyfulness of the season ~
 makes us feel so alive, don't you think?

Even though the city snowflakes aren't quite falling yet,
we know they're not very far away.

~ And since we're feeling rawwwwther childlike with wonder ~
we might as well revel in it
and put away our grown-up schedules for a moment
to scoop up some of the magic of childhood
and bring it into our adult world ...

C'mon, glamorous ones ...
let's enter another Ooh La Frou Frou fantasy
and find our childhood selves ...

~ Suddenly ~
we're in the city with the
Ooh La Frou Frou illustrated City Girls
and snowflakes are gently falling ...

To start, we could relax and laugh over
Serendipity
Frrrozen Hot Chocolate
while the city bustles by outside below us ...

We could take a walk through Central Park ...
but instead of just walking by with heads down
and our i-phones to our ears,
we could stop and
put our noses up to a pine,
close our eyes
and let the scent help us to ....
 remember.

We could walk along the city streets,
 taking in the dreamy lights ...

made all the more magical as the sun goes down ...
{are you feeling childhood magic returning?}

All of this childlike awe
certainly doesn't have to lessen
as we leave
 that "little girl" that we used to be
 behind ...
just remember this, darling ...
~ you never really left her ~
so carry that magic and fantasy
into your day everyday ...

We really are still the same, you know ...
our toys are just much much more fun ...
~ for instance ~
our snow forts are now castles ...

~ our skirts are now frothy as the snow and come with jewels ~

~ our crayons and paints have been replaced
with something much more glamorous ~

~ and each new day we wake and look into our mirrors
at a fresh new canvas to decorate ~

~ finally, when we're satisfied with our creation,
we can add the perfect finishing touch of sparkle ~

Since we've been taking you to some of the holiday windows
of one New York City store each week,
let's walk by a few of Bergdorf-Goodman's windows ...
chosen for this week because they're a mix of
childhood whimsy and grown-up glamour.
This year the Bergdorf-Goodman window theme is a
Carnival of Windows.

"Brass Menagerie"
 

"Teacher's Pet"

 

"Artists and Models"

I wanted to close
with a bit of fabulous!
Since we're taking the magic of childhood
and bringing it into our grown-up world,
this fabulous Dior film
is the perfect finish for this post!
Complete with
 pink clutches setting on chandeliers
and sparkling gold glitter for snow,
this Dior film is a whimsical and glamorous bit of joy ...
{for full impact, be sure to make the film full screen by clicking
on the lower right hand corner to enlarge and then
hitting "escape" after viewing to come back to the blog}.

As a sweet reminder of this week's
fantasy trip to Ooh La Frou Frou in the city ...
I have a holiday City Girl gift for you ...
another free downloadable
holiday gift tag especially for you!

Simply click HERE
to get to the download page of our website
where you can print your gift tags onto cardstock!
{When you get to the download page,
just scroll down to the bottom of the page
 and you will see five
Ooh La Frou Frou gift-tag designs
 listed as my gift to you}
including:
Shopping In The City (shopping girl)
Little Luxe the Pug (pug on chair with wrapping paper)
Sparkly Shoes (sparkly stilettos)
Blue Shoes (tiffany blue stilettos)
It's Christmas Time in the City (taxi)

In closing ...
Here are a few fun links for some of the
things we mentioned about above ...
to increase your holiday magic!
1. The yummy Serendipity Frrrozen Hot Chocolate
can be ordered direct from Serendipity OR made at home!
2. The beautiful Dior nail colors are from the
Dior Les Rouge Or 2011 Holiday Collection
3. Speaking of Dior, if you'd like to look at many of their
fabulous videos (they're all in one place like a library) click on one of
the photos here in the House of Dior.
4. The Givenchy bottle above spraying gold sparkle is
L'Or Celeste Starry Loose Powder ... pearlescent fine particles
of shimmering loose powder to give a beautiful sparkle to
face or decolletage.

Thanks for stopping by, everyone!



To order
Ooh La Frou Frou Collection cards
simply click here.

All Ooh La Frou Frou illustrations
on the blog and on the cards is by
the author and creator of
Ooh La Frou Frou:
(c) Sandra Shelton Markwalder.

Song:
Song: Winter Wonderland by the Eurythmics

Photo Sources (via)
1. Girl with lights
2. First night city photo
3. Second night city photo of bridge in Central Park
4. Third night city photo of Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
5. Serendipity Frrrozen Hot Chocolate
6. Serendipity Chandelier
7. Inside Serendipity
8. Pink Christmas Tree/Lights
9. Pine with Snow
10. Child in Snow
11. First golden sparkly lights
12. Second golden sparkly lights
13. Third golden sparkly lights
14. Fourth golden sparkly lights
15. Fifth golden sparkly lights
16. Sixth golden sparkly lights
16A. Radio City Music Hall Lights
17. NY townhouses
18. Ice castle
19. Tulle dress
20. Les Rouges Or Dior Nailcolors
21. Model for Chanel Holiday 2011 Make-Up
22. Givenchy bottle with gold spray
(L'Or Celeste Starry Loose Powder)
23. Bergdorf-Goodman Brass Menagerie Window
24. Bergdorf-Goodman Teacher's Pet Window
25. Bergdorf-Goodman Artists and Models Window
26. A Golden Christmas by Dior video on You-Tube

Have Yourself a Sparkly Little Christmas

Hello Ooh La Frou Frou Girls!

This week is the second post in our
series of holiday fun ...

and since this is the home of the
Ooh La Frou Frou illustrated City Girls,
 we decided it would be very appropriate to
feature the fabulous holiday windows

of a New York City store
each week leading up to Christmas!
This week ...

it's the windows of
one of New York's more sparkly stores ...

Tiffany & Company!

We can't talk about Tiffany & Company

without thinking of a certain

 illustrated Ooh La Frou Frou girl  ...

If you're new to Ooh La Frou Frou,
 Tiffany is one of the eight
illustrated city girls that star in the

Ooh La Frou Frou Collection card line and its blog ...

Tiffany loves Audrey Hepburn style,

so, of course, she loves all things Tiffany & Company.

Are you a Tiffany?

If you are, you may have seen a little of yourself

in the glamorous Summer City Girl notecard

that we introduced earlier this year ...

in it we see Tiffany being rather "Audrey"

peering in Tiffany's window...

Ohhhh, and by the way ...

~ speaking of notecards ~

if you think the excitement of winter

ends with the holidays, oh noooooo, darling ...

 the Winter City Girls

will be romping through the snow in the city

long after the holidays!

To brighten your winter days, the

Winter City Girls Notecards

will be coming your way approximately
 the end of January!

Ready for a little fantasy?

Let's imagine for a just a moment that YOU are

Ooh La Frou Frou girl Tiffany ...

you live in the city

in a fantasy townhouse that

looks suspiciously like Audrey Hepburn's townhouse

of Breakfast at Tiffany's

~ only it's better ~

because your door, trim and awnings are

Tiffany blue

(how pretty would that door look with greenery

and sparkling lights around it?) ...

If you were Tiffany, your holiday

cookies just might look like this ...

And how would you decorate your
Christmas tree?
I would think a city girl like Tiffany
might start out with a

Tiffany blue one ...

And I imagine that she wouldn't be putting
just any old garland on it ...

I think that

maybe just maybe

the garland would look more like ...
 this?

... and ...
perhaps some strands of these? ...

 ... and since the tree decorating
started out so glamorously,

regular Christmas ornaments just wouldn't do ...

how about these for ornaments?

... and as a finishing touch, we might as well
tuck plenty of these on the tree here and there ...

 

Ohhhh to dream ...
and that would surely be a tree of dreams!

Before we move on to

the Tiffany & Company holiday windows,

some of you may have at home or know of some cute

mini-Tiffanys (aka Audreys) ...

... and if you do, she would more than likely
be so excited to receive one of these sweet books
wrapped in Tiffany blue paper under the tree ...
(I know a few of us grown-up Tiffany girls
 may want one of these too) ...
they're available at Anthropologie ...

Now, let's take a peek at Tiffany's holiday windows ...
Tiffany windows are all about the carousel this year
and the carousels tops can be seen before you even reach the store!
They're stunning ... whether it's by day ...


or night ...


If you stand close enough to gaze inside,
this is a little of the magic you will see ...




... Tiffany in miniature on the right ...






Step inside this video and walk into NYC and see
how the Tiffany windows appear to passersby ...



and now something special  ...

A LITTLE FREE HOLIDAY GIFT
FROM
OOH LA FROU FROU
JUST FOR YOU, OUR REAL-LIFE
OOH LA FROU FROU GIRLS!
I've illustrated two holiday gift tags ...
and because we all know girls like to
choose the shoes she wants ...

each tag has a different pair of stilettos!
Illustrations created especially for these gift tags,
each glamorous pair of stilettos reflects
Ooh La Frou Frou girl Tiffany's
 love of all things sparkly.
All you need is some card stock
and a little ribbon so you can attach them to your holiday gift!

To download the following stiletto tags
as well as last year's 2010 tags,
go here to the download page on our website.
When you get to that page, just scroll
down until you see the four tags listed and
click on the appropriate tag name
to take you to the pdf for printing.

The first tag is a sparkly shoe lined in Tiffany blue!


The second tag is a Tiffany blue pair!


These gift tags are for personal use only
for you, our lovely blog readers,
not for resale.

Because this has been a Tiffany post,
I want to close with a happy
congratulations to one of our
real-life Ooh La Frou Frou girls
that recently became engaged ...
and she's wearing a gorgeous
Tiffany ring like the ring I chose above
to adorn the Tiffany tree!
We're so happy for you,
Julie of Brown Eyed Belle!

~ Till next week ~
Happy Holiday Planning!


All illustration is by
the artist and creator of Ooh La Frou Frou
(c) Sandra Shelton Markwalder.

Ooh La Frou Frou Collection cards
can be purchased here.

PHOTO SOURCES VIA:
1. Tiffany Box with Earring Stud
2. Elini's Snowflake Cookies
Jewelry:
 3. Diamond Strands
3A. Pearls
3B. Tiffany Earrings
3C. Tiffany Ring
4. Mini-Tiffany (aka Audrey)
5. Just Being Audrey Book by Margaret Cardillo (linked above)
6. Tiffany Window #1 (daytime)
7. Tiffany Window #2 (nighttime)
8. Tiffany Window #3 (carousel animals in distance)
9. Tiffany Window #4 (carousel animals up close)
10. Tiffany Window #5 (street scene)
11. Tiffany Window #6 (necklace on snow)
12. Tiffany Window #7 (Santa's sleigh over city)
Video:
You-Tube

Snowing in the City with Ooh La Frou Frou

Hello Ooh La Frou Frou girls!

We're entering that
oh-so-busy time leading up to the holidays
and all of the Ooh La Frou Frou girls
~  like you and me ~
(and the illustrated girls, of course!)

will be busy shopping, shopping, shopping!
During these weeks, each Ooh La Frou Frou post
will be like little drops of  holiday city glamour
to glimpse in on ...
and there will also be some
delightful free surprises
 from Ooh La Frou Frou
sprinkled in occasionally
~ just for you! ~

So remember to
stop by each week

for the glamorous city girl holiday fun!

This week,
for our little drop of glamour to

kick off the new holiday season,

I've placed illustrated city girl

~ Cherie  ~

in the fantasy world of a snowglobe

in celebration of this beautiful season

~ and we pose this question ~

If you were in a snowglobe,
real-life Ooh La Frou Frou girl,

what would the snowglobe scene look like?

Where would you be?

What would you be doing?

How would you be dressed?

Details, details, details!

I'd love to hear!

Leave me a comment and let me know!

I also thought it would be fun each week

to take a little peek at some of the gorgeous

holiday decorations in the city.

We all know that there's nothing like the fabulous

New York City windows during holiday time

so this week, let's peek in at

Henri Bendel

and see what their holiday decor looks like

at the New York flagship store.

The theme this year is about all things

~ New York City ~

Such a glamorous Lady Liberty ...

... and Lady Liberty's coat is made of ~ jellybeans!

 Very sweet, indeed!

To get a glimpse of the holiday decor inside of the store,

as well as the holiday window design,

I think you'll enjoy this video

brought to us by Henri Bendel ...

I do love Henri Bendel ...
and so do all of the
Ooh La Frou Frou illustrated city girls ...
so let me finish by saying ...

"Ohhhhhh, Henri Bendel ...
if you are ever in need of more
city girl illustrations,
give me a call ...
I'm your city girl!"

P.S.
In closing,
just a reminder that illustrated city girl Cherie,
that appears in the snowglobe above,
also stars on the Ooh La Frou Frou Collection
holiday card entitled,
"Santa Baby" ...

This holiday card,
as well as the new "Christmas in the City" boxed holiday cards ...
are available now!

Till next Monday, darlings,
have a fabulous week!
Oh ... and keep warm because
baby, it's cold outside!

Illustration:
All Ooh La Frou Frou illustrations,
including Cherie in the Snowglobe and
all Ooh La Frou Frou Collection
card illustrations above are by:
the artist and creator of Ooh La Frou Frou
(c) Sandra Shelton Markwalder ~ All Rights Reserved.

To shop for
Ooh La Frou Frou Collection cards, simply go here.

Photo/Video Credit:
The three photos of Henri Bendel Windows via
Time Out New York Kids
Henri Bendel holiday 2011 video courtesy of Henri Bendel