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Since I’m now co-hosting Thursday Favorite Things, I figured I couldn’t have two posts in a week called “Favorite Things”. So I’ve changed my previously titled “Friday Favorites” to “Five on Friday”. Same stuff, different name. I think I just like a lot of things is the problem!
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1. Dior Dress. This BEAUTIFUL vintage Dior dress from Spring/Summer1949. Isn’t it pretty???
Evening gown, by the House of Dior, ca. spring/summer 1949 💜💜💜
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2. Kate Spade’s Valentine’s Gift Guide
You need to go check out the Valentine’s day gift guide. Everything is so cute! I picked out my favorites. No, I wasn’t paid by KS to write about this. I just loooove Kate Spade!!
This cute phone case…
I already have a Kate Spade wallet but this one is so cute…
and, oh my gosh, a pail of roses! Not really, it’s a purse, but seriously, how cute is it? Practical? No. Adorable? YES!
3. This floral arrangement. Isn’t it dreamy?? I wish I could recreate this at home!!
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4. Jo Malone Herb Garden Collection
Jo Malone will be introducing 5 new scents in March! I love Jo Malone Colognes and I am interested to try these latest scents. What I love about Jo Malone is that she does scent mixing – so you can mix different scents and blend them and they go really well together.
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– Sorel & Lemon Thyme : also with rosemary and moss
-Wild Strawberry & Parsley : with hints of blackcurrant, parsley, and violet
-Nasturtium & Clover : jasmine is also added
-Carrot Blossom & Fennel : touches of rose, orange blossom, iris
-Lavender & Coriander : with hint of sage and tonic bean
5. Ummm, I guess it’s Spring??
Sooooo… the daffodils we planted last Fall started blooming this week. WHAT?!!!! It’s still January. Like, the whole rest of the country just had a massive blizzard and over here our daffodils are blooming. I can’t believe it!! I mean I knew Spring came early in California but I didn’t know it was *this* early! Not that I’m complaining, I’m totally ready for Spring (and for it not to be dark at 5pm!).
I guess it doesn’t even matter what the Groundhog has to say next week… Spring is here!
This photo I posted on my Instagram this week, if you don’t follow my instagram yet you can totally follow along by clicking here
What you missed earlier this week if you don’t regularly follow the blog…
Annie Sloan DIY Chalk Paint Cabinet Makeover
Barbour Coat Review and Style Ideas
Sharing at these parties…
Friday Favorites with A Little Bit of Everything, Five on friday at A Liz Adventures, Oh Hey, Friday! at September FARM
Hello everyone! So, I have an exciting announcement! I have joined a group of lovely ladies as a co-hostess for the Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop link party!! I’ve been following Katherine’s Corner for a while now and when I saw she was looking for new co-hostesses I knew I had to apply! I was so excited when Katherine asked me to join! I love blog link parties and I’m even more excited to co-host one!
If you’ve never been to my blog before, welcome! Now for a quick introduction: My name is Angelina and I have been blogging since the Summer of 2013. I write about antiques, decorating, travel, food, fashion, and whatever else catches my fancy. You can read more about me on my About Me page.
I can’t wait to see what you all link up this week. Next week I will choose some of my favorites!
Please follow your wonderful hostesses.
Katherine-Katherines Corner || Nina-Vintage Mama’s Cottage || Debi- Surroundings by Debi Erika-What Erika Wears
Betty- My Cozy Corner || Rosemary-An Italian In My Kitchen || Rina-I Thee Cook || Pam-Over 50 Feeling 40
Olivia-Reinvented Collection || Shellie-The Fabulous Journey || Marilyn-Marilyns Treats || Antonella-White House Crafts || Angelina –Peonies and Orange Blossoms
Adding your link to this blog hop gives Katherine and her hostesses’ permission to share your posts and pictures via social media, on pinterest and as features on their blogs.
Happy Hopping!
I’m excited to share with you all a chalk paint cabinet makeover that I did. It took me a total of 4 hours – start to finish. No joke! It’s super easy to do! The nice part about chalk paint is that you don’t have to apply a base or a topcoat. You just start painting and voila! You’re done! While I know there a million tutorials online, this is just my review of using the paint!
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I saw so many tutorials I thought I ought to see what the big deal is with chalk paint. The cabinet I started with is actually one my Grandfather made. He used to build cabinets and he literally had hundreds of them laying around his house and outside. This one is the one he kept in his bedroom, so I’m assuming it was one of his favorites since he chose it for himself.
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When he passed away, I knew I wanted one of the cabinets. I chose this one. Unfortunately, the color of the wood is not my thing. I didnt want to have it laying around in the garage, so I knew that I had to fix it up. Opa (as we called him) never painted wood. He thought wood should be shown in its natural glory. So let’s not tell him we painted it.
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Before painting, I wiped the spiderwebs off and sanded down a few parts of rough surfaces. Then, I just applied one coat of Paris Grey. Just one coat! That’s it. It dries super fast and honestly the top of the cabinet was dry before I was even half way done! (Granted it WAS 100 degrees that day!) I couldn’t believe how EASY using chalk paint was! SO EASY!!
To give it a little bit of texture and aged finish, I did brush some clear wax onto parts and rub it in. I used the special wax brush for this. After using the brush, I used an old t shirt and rubbed the wax in to get rid of the clumps. It made the paint color a little darker. You can kind of notice it at the bottom of the cabinet in the picture above. The wax helps seal the paint. If you’re painting a dresser or a piece with high use, you NEED to put wax on it to help with wear and tear.
For the brown trim around the glass, I applied some dark wax. To apply the dark wax, I just used an old t-shirt and rubbed it in.Then, after applying the dark wax I applied clear wax on top. I used the wax brush to apply the clear wax. Then I rubbed it in with an old t-shirt. The dark wax filled into the deeper crevices and made the trim stand out more.
What about Buying Annie Sloan’s Paint Brushes?? – now, they will try to sell you one brushes when you go into one of their stockists. I actually did buy their special wax brush to apply the wax. Then I used a regular paint brush for the chalk paint itself.
I don’t need to explain to you how to do it. Annie Sloan’s Website has many video tutorials. It’s so super easy, but go watch some of the videos before you start!
I also used the Purple Painted Lady’s tutorials. She has lots of information and videos as well.
Here, my cabinet is filled with little treasures. Some faux hens and chicks candles, little houses, favorite Paris postcards, mini steins, German handmade angels, favorite little napkins! I actually hung it in a powder room. I love the new old cabinet! Plus, I can still keep my Opa’s cabinet!
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Sitting in the center of the kitchen island is this Winter centerpiece I created. The chef tree went away and out came my beloved antique dough bowl!
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I filled the dough bowl with pinecones of different sizes, both real and white candle pinecones. The centerpiece are two little white candle houses and tree. Some faux greenery is tucked away in the bowl as well.
Two boxwood wreaths hang above the little scene. These wreaths are I think two years old… a spritz of fresh water every 1-2 months keeps them fresh.
I will confess, I actually have a Valentine Heart now sitting in the center of the boxwood wreaths, but I took these pictures before I did that!
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It’s FRIDAY! FRIYAY! This week I have some exciting news to share…
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We got a new kitty cat!! We named her Chloe. We rescued he from the animal shelter last weekend. She cried the whole way home (with tears… never seen a cat cry tears). She is estimated to be about 3 years old (although I think she is older). She has been a sweet little kitty so far. She is a Russian Blue Mix.
She likes nap time and cuddles. She purrs all of the time. We are slowly introducing her to the house. We’ve been enjoying our little kitty friend so far. Her pretty green eyes glow. She is napping next to me right now.
These Ugg Boots.…I want to talk about these Ugg boots I got for Christmas. At first I was a little unsure, as I didn’t want to be one of “those girls” wearing Ugg boots. But then I put them on and my feet were hugged with the softness I immediately understood why people wear them all of the time. I have been wearing them nonstop since I got them. I haven’t worn mine outside, they are a about-the-house shoe for me, but seriously. Once you put them on you won’t want to take them off!
This candle. It was a splurge I used with my Nordstrom notes. I’ve always wanted to try this candle company. It’s by”Diptyque”, a company in Paris. The fragrance I purchased is one of their top sellers called “baies”. This scent has the freshness of roses and the smell of blackcurrant leaves. It is really nice and refreshing.It’s not just any type of rose, it uses Bulgarian roses which of course are more luxurious and have a fruity scent. It smells so nice. Just opening the box up produces an aroma in the room.
This French Townhouse. You HAVE to see this beautiful townhouse. The story is on Cote de Texas’ blog.
Here is a pic of the outside of this complex. It’s designed to look like a Parisian city block. Isn’t it darling?
Look below! It really does look like a little slice of Paris -but with better plumbing and air conditioning! Sign me up! You really need to go check it out. The condo is decorated with fabulous French antiques. Here is the link again. Pics are from that blog post.
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I received a Barbour Beadnell coat for Christmas and I thought I would write about my opinions on the coat!
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The Barbour Beadnell coat is made of a waxed cotton. When it rains, the raindrops just drop right off of the wax. It has a corduroy collar around the face which helps wick away the drops from your face.
It has two smaller pockets that you can put your hands that are lined with moleskin – it helps keep your hands nice and warm on wet rainy days! I love this feature!
The plaid is also cute and you can roll up the sleeve to show it off.
It also has two larger pockets – you can put your phone in it. There are holes at the bottom of these big pockets – small ones, built in on purpose, so if you happen to be sea shelling, you can put them in your coat and the water will drip right on out!
Barbour started in England in 1894. It is one of the few companies to have received 3 royal warrants – from the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles.
Barbour coats can last for years. You just have to send them into be re-waxed occasionally to keep them in tip top shape. You can send them into Orvis if you live by one or the official Barbour store in the USA.
I love my coat. I bought the detachable hood for the coat and it is wonderful in the rain. It has a built in metal wire in it so the hood stays propped up and so it doesn’t fall in your face!
Here I am showing off my coat. Sorry for the phone pictures… it’s hard to take a picture of yourself! I wanted to show how I like to wear it and show off the little hand pocket.
You can roll up the sleeve once and show off the cute little tartan plaid inside! You can also kind of see the plaid on the inside of the hood. I like to wear it with my riding boots and my brown LV.
Lots of celebrities wear the coats too…
How I imagine how the English really wear their boots and coats…
This is from a cute blogger, classy girls wear pearls…
And the picture below too…
from classy girls wear pearls
Below is another cute blogger, College Prepster, who wears her coat quite often…
from the college prepster
Below are some outfit idea boards I put together on how you can style your Barbour coat…
For board one, I like to wear my coat most with my riding boots. Pair it with a plaid shirt, some jeans (white or dark!), and a statement necklace.
The next look is for those rainy days…
Pair a chunky knit sweater with those Hunter rain boots and a nice scarf!
The next look is for running around town…
You can pair your stylish workout leggings with a grey sweatshirt. Can you believe grey sweatshirts are all the rage in Paris right now? Pair them with some low boots (or even tennis shoes) and a purse with a shoulder strap so you can do your errands or sightseeing!
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All and all, I am loving my coat. It wasn’t cheap but I haven’t bought a new raincoat in 10 years. So I think it was time! I can say when I wear mine with my leather riding boots I feel positively English!
Hope you all enjoyed the post!
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I thought I would share with you the tablescape I have on the main dining table right now. I moved the white house and tree candles to the center. Mixed in between are battery operated candles that come on automatically at night and create some nice ambience in the room.
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I like the Winter Whites here… although to be honest I’m excited for the pinks of Spring…
These little bird napkin rings are so cute.. they are glitter birds sitting on a folded ribbon. I just love them!
I didn’t set up this table for any occasion, only for the husband and I to enjoy. That’s why there’s no plates or anything.
One last look at this Winter White table. I like the simplicity of it.
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This week I’ve been tidying up my blog a bit. With the Thanksgiving-Christmas season all over, I’ve finally had some time to sit down and update my blog!
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I decluttered some of the basic things that came with the blogger template. I redesigned my header for the year, too. Do you like it?? The backdrop of the header was actually the inside of the envelopes from my wedding.
I updated my About Me and also my Recipe Pages. Check them out.
Here are the links I’ve read and used. I summarized them below.
7 Things to Remove from your Blogger Template – including getting rid of that ugly Navbar that sits on the top of blogger pages!
7 Places to Find Free Photos to Use on Your Blog – very useful for stock photos… and they are FREE!
A Simple and Attractive Search Bar Widget – do you like my search bar? This is how you get it (or very similar minimalist ones)
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How to Enlarge your Popular Posts Thumbnails – I totally hated Blogger’s popular posts widget so I removed it a year ago. I found a way to customize the pictures and make them much bigger!
How to have a Pretty Preview of Your Instagram Pictures – I’ve been working on growing my Instagram following. Follow me here @LePetit_Macaron. You can see the pics to the right.
How to Move your Page Tabs or Navigation Links to the Top of the Page! – I moved the page tabs to the tip top of the page to make the blog seem a little sleeker.
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Doesn’t it look like Spring in the picture below?? We went to the flower market and bought some fresh flowers. January is so blah outside. After arranging the flowers in the tulipiere, my Mom and I sat down and have a lovely Afternoon Tea like the Brits! Tea time certainly raises the mood on a blustery, wet ,and dreary day.
I like the ombre look this arrangement. Dark pink tulips on the bottom, light pink tulips in the middle, and white tuberose on top. The tuberose smells heavenly.
Now, onto the simple scone recipe. It was really easy to make. Took me less than an hour from start to finish.
Now, I initially wanted to make these scones from Simply Suzanne’s, but I didn’t have vanilla beans. But you know what I have? LEMONS. Lemons are coming out of my ears over here. We have so many Meyer lemon trees it borders on ridiculous. (I like the look of a lemon tree surrounded by lavender in the garden). So I added some lemon zest and made a lemon glaze to the simple cream scone recipe.
Lemon Scone Recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Lemon Glaze Recipe
Mix together all of the ingredients in the glaze, adding more sugar or less liquid depending on how thick it is. Spread it on the scones.
The tea we enjoyed was purchased on our trip to Paris. It is Laduree’s House tea and it is really nice. I wrote about my trip to the Laduree Tea Room here.
One last look at our nice little afternoon tea. We certainly felt British with the rain pouring outside today!
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Every year I have written a post about kitchens. One year I wrote about all-white kitchens. Last year I wrote about Greige (grey/beige) kitchens, and this year I’m writing about my new love, cerused French oak kitchens!
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Cerused means that the oak floor/cabinet has lime or wax applied into the grain of the wood to give it a little depth and contrast. I totally love how soft it makes the cabinets look.
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What I like about this picture is that you can see the lime or wax in the grain of the cabinets.
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This one below has a little less obvious limed oak, but is definitely the blonde French White Oak!
4- Traditional Kitchen by Dallas Kitchen & Bath Designers Backline Renovations
5- Beach Style Kitchen by Milford Interior Designers & Decorators Shelter Interiors llc
6- Rustic Kitchen by New Holland Cabinets & Cabinetry Quality Custom Cabinetry, Inc
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This kitchen below hits all of the right notes… open shelves, aged wooden beams, white marble countertops, cerused oak cabinets…
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9-Rustic Kitchen by South Pasadena Interior Designers & Decorators Charmean Neithart Interiors, LLC.
According to this article, the cerused oak look came from the 1940s from the French designer Jean-Michel Frank. The trend has come out of high-end furniture sales at auction from the late 2000’s… This cabinet which sold at Christies for 40k is considered one of the main inspirational pieces for this trend…
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I just wanted to show you that this is not a *new* trend… here is an 18th century Belgian cabinet with the cerused oak. Granted, it has probably had a new finish applied from it’s original. Isn’t it beautiful?
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One reason the two furniture pieces above, while both cerused, look different is because of the cuts of the oak. The Jean-Michel cabinet is made from rift-sawn oak, whereas the 18th century Belgian cabinet is made from plain sawn oak.
Below you can see an image showing you how you can cut the oak and get different views of the grains. Can you guess which one is the least and then most expensive? If you guessed plain sawn as the cheapest, you are right! The rift sawn is the most expensive and is currently considered the most desirable… naturally it’s the one I like best! I’m always picking out the most expensive everything even when I have no idea about the product!
Here are two more furniture examples, both from Restoration Hardware with the cerused oak. They called it “Aged oak” or “Grey Oak” but it’s the same thing.
This cabinet below is from the new RH Modern collection… Although I prefer the antique looking cabinet above!
Back to the kitchen tour, This is one of my favorite kitchens. Very stylish with the steel windows! Although, dark floors are going “out”, but I still think they look pretty!
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A more contemporary version, at first I thought the hood of the stove was a big screen tv!
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Here is an example of a whitewashed white oak examples with grey undertones. It still has cerused wood. I like this look too.
13- Transitional Kitchen by Mamaroneck Kitchen & Bath Designers Studio Dearborn
Here is a very contemporary cerused black oak kitchen. I actually don’t hate this black kitchen. Normally I hate black kitchens and really modern kitchens but the limed look softens it a bit.
14 –Contemporary Kitchen by Seattle Cabinets & Cabinetry Warmington & North
A trendy kitchen complete with the now in-style brass fixtures! I still can’t believe brass is back in style… and the fact that I like it. I think it’s because the brass is aged and not shiny from the 80s.
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This one also has some grey undertones. You can really notice that these cabinets are rift sawn.
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Here the island is a cerused French white oak… The very tight grout lines of the tile below are also tres chic.
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The kitchen below hits all of the trends. Let’s review them, shall we? Steel windows. French oak plank floors AND ceiling. Waterfall effect island of white marble. Farmhouse sink. Cerused oak cabinets. Did we miss anything? Oh, no over-the-counter shelves.
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Now, I love this kitchen from Brooke Gianetti. She used a custom French white oak cabinet with a custom stain. I can’t tell if its cerused or not – I think it is. Like the farmhouse sink, chandeliers over the island, wood beam ceiling, overmudded backsplash behind the stove, wide French oak plan floors, and dare I say, I even like the brass fixtures!
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Now, I think the cabinet below is more whitewashed than cerused, but it’s just another example.
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This kitchen from Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen does have greige cabinets on the sides, but the island is a cerused oak!
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A more modern take on the look…
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I like this kitchen below. Cerused cabinets in the way back with whitewashed cabinets in the front with travertine floors.
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A contemporary cerused look. I like that the cerused cabinets make even harsh contemporary looks soften up a bit.
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Here is a kitchen designed by Jeffrey Alan Marks, from the beloved Million Dollar Decorators (RIP) show. He used the white oak back in 2013, ahead of the times! That fish wallpaper is by DeGournay!
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Are you liking this trend?
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I have loved this kitchen for a long time. Windows on both sides of the stove bring in light. Two little chandeliers above the giant island. Greige/whitewashed cabinets in the back with cerused oak on the island. Overmudded limestone wall on the back. Aged wooden beams above. Travertine floors. I think I would want my kitchen to look like this.
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The kitchen below mixes two styles – cerused cabinets and greige island cabinets.
28 – Traditional Kitchen by Dallas Kitchen & Bath Designers Backline Renovations
Well, what do you think of this trend?? Is it a breathe of fresh air or does it remind you too much of your Grandma’s cabinets from the mid-century?
I want you all to tell me which one is your favorite in the comments – I put numbers below all of the pictures to make it easy for you! I’m really quite curious. I think my favorite is #27.
Sources for the pictures are listed below it.
Alright peeps. I am back with Friday Favorites. I took a little bit of a hiatus during the Christmas season… mainly because I blog Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and I had too many posts for Christmas and had to bump Friday Favorites. I guess I could have blogged even more frequently, but this is a hobby for me, not a job!
Let’s get started…
Barbour coat…
I got a new Barbour coat for Christmas! I am so excited about it! My old raincoat was falling apart. This new jacket is wonderful and much warmer than my old one. It is a Barbour Beadnell jacket… it is made of a waxed cotton that allows the rain to drip right off and it has a corduroy collar at the top to draw the mist away from your face. I got the Rustic color, as seen below in the next two pictures…
As you can see, Princess Kate (okay, I know her title is actually the Duchess of Cambridge, but if you marry a prince you’re a princess in my book!), anyway, Princess Kate wears one too!
Apple Watch
Ok, I had a very good Christmas. I got an apple watch too. My favorite part of the watch is the simplest part… the Mickey Mouse face. Mickey dances by tapping his foot to every second as he keeps time. Every time I look down at my watch I smile! Plus, the health apps are pretty cool too. I like how it tells me to stand when I’ve been sitting too long. This is perfect if you have an office job!
The exact one I have is below, the rose gold sport version. The band is a little more purple in real-life. To be honest I think I’d rather have a navy band or a different color, but this one came with it so oh well!
And now… TV shows I’m watching (BESIDES Downton Abbey, which I wrote about HERE earlier this week).
Galavant
Returning with its second season to ABC, the musical comedy fairy tale is about a beautiful hero named Galavant, who embarks on his quest to marry Madalena. But he loses Madalena to King Richard. Madalena has overthrown King Richard and now Galavant and King Richard have started on their own journey…
BASICALLY… if you liked “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” You will like this show. That’s the short version.
Mozart in the Jungle
This show is only on Amazon Prime. It is about a new conductor coming to the New York Symphony and also an up and coming oboeist. If you like symphonies, you will like this show. I love all of the classical music in it!
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I will admit that January is my least favorite month. Why? The nights are still long. My house isn’t lit up with my pretty Christmas trees. It is cold outside. But what I have been looking forward to for the past several Januaries is… Downton Abbey!!!
Unfortunately this is the last season for the show. No!!
Did you watch the season premiere this past Sunday??
If you haven’t had time to catch up, Go watch it now!
Let’s look at some of the pretty fashions from this season’s show…No spoilers (to my knowledge)
I’ll admit some of my favorite outfits from the show are of Lady Mary’s hunting outfits.
How chic does she look here?
I like lady Edith’s dress below…
Lady Rose always looks so nice in pink.
I could use this big hat for my trip to Hawaii…
I love this dress below!
Lady Mary looking like a fashionable flapper both above and below!
Do you watch Downton Abbey?
If you do, you might like some of my other Downton Abbey posts…
I wrote about my trip to a Downton Abbey castle!
I had a tea party and made coconut scones and include the yummy recipe here
A look at some of the fashions from seasons 1-4.
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Happy New Year!!
I am back from a very busy holiday season! We had a total of FIVE Christmases! While I LOVE Christmas, it was a LOT of Christmases to have! We had two of them at our house.
For the first time EVER in my WHOLE LIFE I finally was able to celebrate Christmas at my own home on Christmas morning. That has NEVER happened ever. It really meant a lot to me. We had a nice break-feast as my husband and I coined it… a feast of French toast and yummy breakfast potatoes with a homemade eggnog latte. It was the best. I hope this is a tradition we get to keep doing!!
Well, in prepping for posts for the next year, I thought I’d take a glance and see what my top posts of the past year were!
I wrote about my parents’ pretty bathroom remodel, you need to check it out.
You all loved this early Fall centerpiece… I did too with those sunflowers!
As you know, we went to France this past April and had a blast. I had so much fun reviewing our trip and writing a gazillion posts about it. Here are your favorites…
Carry-on travel essentials for that long plane flight…
A day trip to Chateau de Fontainebleau
I had been dreaming of visiting the Laduree Tea Salon in Paris since I first heard about it… I blogged about my experience here.
Did you know buying a Louis Vuitton is cheaper in Paris? WHAT! Doesn’t mean it’s a steal, but I wrote about it in this post.
I wrote about my favorite places to shop in Paris.
I wrote about baking Orange Blossom macarons following Laduree’s recipe. These were my FAVORITE macarons to eat in Paris!
You all liked my Thanksgiving table. It was my #1 tablescape of the year! I loved it too!
I was a bit surprised how much you like my Fall 2015 outfit suggestions!
And now, *drum roll please*… The top post of 2015 was…. Taupe, Greige, and Grey Kitchen Trends!
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