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We had an amazing Easter Sunday. I hope you had an amazing day too!

Here is our little Easter garden that the kids decorated. Oh! Easter bunny and his egg...so cute!

Thank you Easter bunny for dropping us a few presents at our Easter garden. You're always so kind and sweet to the children.

After Easter egg hunting, we played Mexican confetti eggs. Following Mexican tradition, Easter confetti eggs are often broken over someone's head as a symbol of good luck. It's a part of the holiday celebration.

We were ready for racing the flying paper air-planes.

Time for sweet.

3pm snack time: we all enjoyed our red velvet cake and berries smoothie while watching the Home Alone movie. YUM!!!

The kids were playing bubble blowing while the adults were chatting and grilling some meat for dinner.

Look at this one! It's the coolest bubble ever!

"Mama, I'm getting good at blowing bubblegum" :D

Cute little baby!

Time for dinner :D

Apple, grape, dried cranberry, and arugula salad with balsamic vinaigrette is one of my favorite salads that it's easy to prepare at home.

Grilled lamb, chicken, and rose wine.

Berries pie for dessert.

Have a wonderful day to you all!! xoxo...Hanh:)

CoCo Chanel and Igor Stravinsky

Two weeks ago my husband and I went to see the movie, CoCo Chanel and Igor Stravinsky. I was excited because it's something about mademoiselle Chanel, and my husband was excited because of Stravinsky, one of his favorite composers.
The film examines the relationship between designer Coco Chanel and composer Igor Stravinsky, two of the most influential and creative figures of the last century. Chanel is the aggressor in the short-lived affair of which little is known, that began in 1920, seven years after she attended the world premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", as choreographed by Nijinsky and performed by the Ballets Russes. That notorious opening, May 29, 1913, at the Theatre des Champ-Elysees in Paris gathered storm clouds over the orchestra pit and shook the music world. The Audience was hissing and shouting at the stage. You are witnessing an audience's reaction to the coming of the 20th century. The rest of the film deals with the love affair of the two. It's an intense look at love, lust, passion and the heartbreak of his ill wife, Catherine. It's a 2009 French film directed by Jan Kounen, and has been showing in America theaters. I highly recommended that you see it with your partner. It's great!

This is what I wore for the movie: Madewell t-shirt, Alexander Wang shorts. It was so tempting to buy these shorts because it was on a great sale at Barneys online and they had only one left in my size.

I always bring light jacket or sweater with me when I go to see a movie because it's always cold in the theater. Junya Watanabe jacket was also on sale at Barneys.

To Garance Dore, this kind of short is to wear with flats and "don't try them with heels". As you know, I like to take risk and have fun with fashion. So, I went for heels; actually, Rodarte ankle boots. I'm petite enough to do it, I think. To be honest, I don't feel comfy to wear this kind of shorts to go out alone or go out with my girlfriends because I don't want to give a wrong message. But, I do feel comfy to wear them whenever I'm with my husband ;-)

I purchased this Chanel necklace when I was in Paris past April.

Thank you everyone for visiting and your comments!
Wishing you all a fabulous day!! kisses...Hanh ;-)

Europe -- New Project to Digitize Jewish Cultural Collections

Photos at Jewish Museum, Florence. Photo (c) Ruth Ellen Gruber

Judaica Europea has just been launched -- it's a 3 million euro project aimed at providing internet access to items Jewish cultural interest in the collections of leading cultural institutions across the continent. It forms part of Europeana, a broader EC project to digitize Europe's cultural resources.

Judaica Europeana will work with European cultural institutions to identify content documenting the Jewish contribution to the cities of Europe.

It will digitize 10,500 photos, 1,500 postcards and 7,150 recordings as well as several million pages from books, newspapers, archives and press clippings. The digitized content will be available at Europeana.eu.

The target audiences are university teachers and students, schools, cultural heritage professionals, cultural tourists and the general public: "anyone interested in the history of European cities or Jewish culture."

The ambitious two-year project was announced this past week, with the launch of its web site. Partly funded by a 1.5 million euro  grant from the European Commission, it will initially involve ten institutions across Europe under the leadership of  the London-based European Association for Jewish Culture and the Judaica Collection of the Goethe University Library in Frankfurt.

Other partners include:
Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris
Amitié, Centre for Research and Innovation, Bologna
British Library, London
Hungarian Jewish Archives, Budapest
Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
The Jewish Museum London
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Rome

Judaica Europeana will begin by digitizing millions of pages and thousands of other items selected from the collections of its partner libraries, archives and museums. The next stage will be to aggregate other digital collections on Jews in European cities — wherever they may be.

"Jewish culture has been predominantly text-based; it will be a particular challenge for us to bring in as much audio-visual material as possible," said Lena Stanley-Clamp, the project’s manager and director of the European Association for Jewish Culture.

Rajasthan text by Dhamendra Kanwar

Rajasthan is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area. Though a desert with a few hilly spurs, Rajasthan is one of the world's most colorful regions, with heritage that spans the historic and the chivalric, blending it with the artistic and the aesthetic. Rajasthan is replete with splendid palaces, temples, wells, exotic wildlife sanctuaries, colorful festivals, and rich culture-in brief everything that travelers find interesting. I hope that one day I would visit Rajasthan with my kids when they're big enough and ready for interesting and exciting adventure.
This book, Rajasthan (text by Dhamendra Kanwar ), is a tribute not only to their kingdoms and the culture they developed, but also to the joie de vivre which marks the people and their lifestyle even today. In this book with amazing photography, you will learn alot and get inspiration through their architecture building, their lifestyle, especially their clothing and jewelry which we like.

Jaipur's signature building is the Hawa Mahal. Tonk was a Muslim kingdom, the only one in Rajasthan, and its Suehri Kothi or Golden Palace is appropriately named for its gilded interiors which are among the most lavish in Rajasthan.
JEWELRY INSPIRATION
Her jewelry reminds me of my Dries van Noten scarf spring09.

Her jewlery inspires me to bring out my beautiful Dries van Noten scarf which was made in India. I paired it with a Janis Savitt necklace, RO tank, Zara leggings, Christian Louboutin ankle boots. The scarf and the necklace for this look were inspired by reading through this book.

The jewelry of Indian lady also reminds me of Dries van Noten sandals-spring09, especially these pairs. Photo from style.com

Wishing everyone a wonderful day!!!Thank you for reading!!!

Kisses...Hanh ;-)

The Byodo-In Temple, Kaneohe, O'ahu

Honolulu is our favorite city to visit whenever we come to Hawaii. In coming next post, I'll talk more about the city. I need more time to gather all the pictures of Honolulu. I'm excited about this.
We also have few favorite restaurants to visit everytime we're here; like Tokyo Tokyo at Kahala Hotel, Chef Mavro, Orchids and La Mer at Halekulani.
Last night was our first night here in Honolulu. And we went to Tokyo Tokyo restaurant for dinner. I wore Sari Gueron dress, Eddie Borgo necklace, Hardy shoes and the belt is from Barney's Co-0p.

I love the traps have metal wire on them.

The Byodo-In Temple

The Byodo-In Temple located at the foot of the 2,000 foot Ko'olau Mountains in the valley of the Temples Memorial Park in O'ahu Kaneohe Region. It was established on June 7, 1968 to commemorate the 100 years anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. It was built entirely without the use of nails and it is a scale replica of a temple in Uji Japan built over 950 years ago. It's beautiful architecture, the graceful gardens with a spirit of inner peace and serenity.
It's a popular stop for tourists and has become more popular since it was used as a filming location in the first season of the ABC Emmy Award Winning drama series LOST, where it served as the home of the Korean woman Sun's powerful father.

My kids were busy feeding the fishes.

The small waterfall in the garden.

I hope all my fabulous fellow readers have a wonderful day!! love...Hanh ;-)