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Saturday Links: May 17th

By Fashion Addicted Foodies @fashionfoodi

Brigitte Bardot with CameraCannes Film Festival is in full swing. The most memorable moment might be one of the many times that young Brigitte Bardot captivated the photographers by frolicking on the beach in her bikini (very risqué back in the day) but CNN has researched the 5 biggest Cannes scandals. Steve Coogan and some pigeons? Not sure if I’d call it a scandal….

The sun has finally come out and the temperatures are starting to feel like summer. These Sunpockets are super handy shades. They fold to fit in your pocket! The brand is retro glam from the 70s but has gotten a modern makeover when it relaunched in 2011.

If you can’t get out of bed in the mornings, it may not be because you have slept too little or gone to bed to late. You may simply have wrong sleeping habits! Apparently we sleep in cycles of 90 minutes and sleepyti.me is an online sleep cycle calculator that tells you when you should be going to be bed or what time you should be waking up in the morning. No more hitting the snooze button!

We’ve coconut water but get ready…here comes maple water. Sweeter than coconut water and very nutritious with 46 nutrients, we may all be sipping on our garden trees soon. Sounds weird but intriguing.

Giant paper rose  piñatas for your summer garden party?  So pretty! Learn how to make your own.

The Beat Generation were a bunch of legendary hipsters mainly from New York City in the late 1950s. A lot of famous writers were amongst them  including such American literary legends as Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg. Larry Fink was an 18 year old fresh faced teenager who arrived in NYC and embraced the beat culture and started taking photographs which have now been published in a book called The Beats. Have a look what 1950s rebellion looked like. Turns out it looks much like it does today.

Rhubarb in 5 surprising ways. Rhubarb mayo anyone?

This is kind of genius. J.Crew Crew is an online soap opera created by Meghan O’Neill and starring J.Crew models in J.Crew magazine ads. (Has nothing to do with J.Crew by the way.) Some people are just so brilliant.

Now that you’ve fixed you sleep cycles you may have more time in your hands. Here are 101 ideas to spruce up your bedroom.

We all know how hard blogging can be but Allison ends up popping pills to cope with her mommy blog and ends up in rehab. OK, it’s a book of fiction but is on my list for summer reading 2014.

Why is JD Fortune not a massive rock star? An eternal question that seems to haunt me, especially after a few glasses of red wine, but seriously, why is JD Fortune not a massive rock star?

A boutique hotel in the sky. That’s what Ethiad Airways is aiming for after announcing their first class not seats buts suites. Complete with seating area, a full bed, minibar and a wardrobe in each suite,  it is literally like a flying hotel. For the few lucky ones on the upper deck.

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