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The Five most decadent Parisian Patisseries… and I have not been to one of them! Oh dear, I guess we have to make a trip back!  I actually tried to go to one of them but unfortunately it had closed before we got there. 

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Favorite Instagram…

Since I have skipped this category for a little while I thought I would just include a whole bunch of instagrams that caught my eye! 

Spotted…

We were strolling through the mall this past weekend and went into the Kate Spade store and she has this new life of cruise-worthy handbags!  My relatives are on a cruise right now and I thought these bags would be PERFECT for taking on a cruise! 

Resin Ship Clutch – perfect for cruising!! Bring this to the dinner and out dancing on the cruise!

3D life preserver clutch – SO much fun, can’t you see yourself in your nautical wear with this? 

Life Preserver tote (on sale HERE).  You could fit so much in this bag! 

“Going Places” Tote is so fun! I’d bring this to Europe if I didn’t already have other purses to bring!

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Have you been to the Nordstrom Sale yet? If not, you have to check it out because it is going to end soon!!!

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Favorite Cat….

This is Chloé the cat with her head in the box not moving. Notice her little paw poking through the inside. One paw is inside and one is outside.  I am so glad I talked my husband into letting us have a cat… she brings us so much joy! We’ve had her for 6 months now and even though she broke my favorite tulipiere (RIP) she is forgiven.

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Hello all of my friends! Welcome to Thursday Favorite Things link party #248!

You can party with us here every Wednesday night starting at 6pm PST. 

As our 250th link party approaches, I wanted to change it up a little bit about how I choose my features.  

This week I have picked out FOUR mouth watering French dessert recipes! Oh, MY FAVORITE THING! Seriously, I *looove* French desserts, in fact, I was working on a strawberry pistachio tart today (coming to the blog soon!)

Easy Peasy Life Matters shared this strawberry basil crepe recipe!

Joy Food Sunshine shared these homemade chocolate eclairs!

 The Sweet Sensations shared this almond and peach galette! 

 Home Made Interest shared this cute little peach tarts! 

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Katherine-Katherines Corner

Nina-Vintage Mama’s Cottage

Debi- Surroundings by Debi

Marilyn- Marilyn’s Treats

Angelina –Peonies and Orange Blossoms

Shellie-The Fabulous Journey

Rina-I Thee Cook

Olivia-Reinvented Collection

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Well, Peonies and Orange Blossoms turns THREE this week! I can hardly believe I’ve been blogging for several years!  I suppose I’m no longer a “newbie”, especially in the internet world where things can be viral for all of two seconds!

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To celebrate this year we’re having a virtual tea party at Chatsworth House.  (Every year I have a virtual soiree, one year it was a Marie Antoinette Party, last year it was an evening dinner in Napa).

 This isn’t any ol’ tea party.  We’re having an Edwardian themed tea party a la Pride and Prejudice and the early days of Downton Abbey. So wear your best Edwardian outfit!

Make sure your shoes are comfortable though, as we’re touring the beautiful gardens first.

After your garden tour, let’s meet up for tea time.

The Dowager Countess has been waiting for you at the table…

No really, she didn’t go on that walk… 

Isn’t the table pretty? 

There are lots of goodies to nosh on at this tea time, hmm, which to eat first??

A BIG SHOUT OUT to all of my lovely readers! Thank you for following along with me through my little journey called life. 

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Can you believe that we are already half way through July with August *just* around the corner??  Well, I’ve planted my pumpkin patch because Halloween really is only about 100 days away! In fact, the other day, I actually thought that it was starting to feel like Fall! WHAT! I know, August is coming with the 110 degree days, but it had me start planning for Fall decorating! Okay, enough talk, time to look at this week’s features! 

Munchkin Time shared this delicious sounding blueberry peach nutella pavlova recipe!

Timeless Creations shared this French country lamp makeover using Annie Sloan. 

Nancy on the Home Front shared a cute trip about picking sour cherries.

Homemade Interest shared this Tex-mex coleslaw recipe – perfect for hot Summer days!

21st and Main shared 5 Do’s and Dont’s for wearing Maxi Dresses… Love these tips, I struggle with finding maxi dresses that look good on me!

Congratulations if you were featured! I have pinned your posts to our Thursday Favorite Things Pinterest Board! I would also like to thank everyone for linking up – I visit many of your posts but don’t always comment because I have been super duper busy!

If you were featured on my blog today (or on previous days) please feel free to grab my “I was featured” button!  Either right click and download or copy and paste into your blog!

Welcome to Thursday Favorite Things! Every cohostess features posts on her blog! If you weren’t featured here, be sure to check out the other blogs as your post may have been featured there!

Join us every week as we party and share at the best link party in blog land!

Katherine-Katherines Corner

Nina-Vintage Mama’s Cottage

Debi- Surroundings by Debi

Marilyn- Marilyn’s Treats

Angelina –Peonies and Orange Blossoms

Shellie-The Fabulous Journey

Rina-I Thee Cook

Olivia-Reinvented Collection

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Have fun we look forward to all you will share. All of the hostesses select their favorites to share in features on their blogs each week. Share your best work!

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First, before I start, for my regular blog readers, I’m cutting my posting back until the Fall… I will be posting Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays instead of Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. I have found that blog readership is way down right now because everyone is out keeping themselves busy right now in Summer… Myself included. Who wants to sit inside in front of a screen when it’s so beautiful outside! I certainly don’t!! Anyway on to the topic…

I fell in love with groin vault ceilings a little while ago. I think they are so interesting.  Below is a picture of a groin vault ceiling, as an example

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If you don’t know what a groin vault ceiling is, I thought this diagram below was really helpful in showing the different types of ceilings.  

I love the look of the groin vault ceiling down a hallway like this… with a pendant hanging down from the center of each one.  

I really really wanted my long hallway in my house to have groin vaults down the whole thing.  It would have looked so cool! Pendants down the center and all.  Like below.

Except, it’s not going to work out.  For several reasons – one, by California law we have to have fire extinguishers installed in the ceiling in each one of the groin vaults – it is supposed to run down the center but since you would put a pendant there, you would have to cut an extra hole running down next to the pendants that is off center. This does not look pleasing to the eye. But I thought, okay, well I can live with that.

The other problems is that one area of the house the living room will be on the left and the dining on the right – both with tall ceilings.  If I want the groin vault, I would have to either significantly raise the height of the hallway or drop the living room or ceiling heights (reason – because the groin vault drops down several feet from the ceiling, as you can see below).  I am not going to be able to do this.

So no long hallway for me with pretty groin vaults. 

 But wait. Maybe I can work it somehow into the entry?

Hmm, I need to go back to the drawing board and measure around. Maybe that would work.

 I found this picture below pretty interesting – it shows how the groin vault is made!

 So long, dreams of long hallway with groin vaults.  Also don’t want to have too many interesting architectural features – otherwise it will seem too over-the-top.

So, do you like the groin vault ceiling? Do you have one in your house?

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Welcome back to another week of Thursday Favorite Things!  Apparently I am tart-obsessed this week because I am featuring TWO pretty and delicious sounding tarts.

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The first is this whipped ricotta and blueberry tart from Living the Gourmet. How stunning is the photography as well??

Check out this Chocolate crust mini ice cream tart. Say what??? This sounds tasty! Carolyn’s Homework made this beautiful tart with sugared berries – I love the little lemon peel curl too!

OK, so if you follow my blog then you should know that I *LOVE* Christmas. I mean, I had four Christmas trees. So when I saw this tablescape from Dining Delight, I just had to feature it! Isn’t it so pretty???/

Congratulations if you were featured! I have pinned your posts to our Thursday Favorite Things Pinterest Board! I would also like to thank everyone for linking up – I visit many of your posts but don’t always comment because I have been super duper busy!

If you were featured on my blog today (or on previous days) please feel free to grab my “I was featured” button!  Either right click and download or copy and paste into your blog!

Welcome to Thursday Favorite Things! Every cohostess features posts on her blog! If you weren’t featured here, be sure to check out the other blogs as your post may have been featured there!

Join us every week as we party and share at the best link party in blog land!

Katherine-Katherines Corner

Nina-Vintage Mama’s Cottage

Debi- Surroundings by Debi

Marilyn- Marilyn’s Treats

Angelina –Peonies and Orange Blossoms

Shellie-The Fabulous Journey

Rosemary-An Italian In My Kitchen

Rina-I Thee Cook

Olivia-Reinvented Collection

 It all starts with a SIMPLE ACT OF KINDNESS

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Have fun we look forward to all you will share. All of the hostesses select their favorites to share in features on their blogs each week. Share your best work!

It’s time to link up your favorite things and posts!

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The Five on Friday this week is a little bit different.

Normally I write about 5 different topics for Five on Friday. However, I’ve been working like a dog and am too tired to put together a full list!

how I feel about work.

Instead, I’m pretending I’m enjoying a nice meal at this beautiful soiree below. Here are FIVE beautiful pictures to enjoy. Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Pictures are from this website. The event was held at Villa Pizza along Lake Como in Italy.

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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful and safe Fourth of July weekend!  I spent the whole time working… didn’t see a single firework! Hopefully I’ll get to see some next year!

Well, while we celebrated Independence Day here, our neighbors in the North celebrated Canada Day. Dining Delight shared this cute Canada Day centerpiece. I love the moose!

It’s officially Summer and I don’t know where you live but here it has been really hot. This Strawberry Basil ice cream from Easy Peasy Life Matters sounds amazing!

The Lou Lou girls shared these tasty looking Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes! 

Andrea at Living on Cloud Nine shared her cute Fourth of July outfits! She also has some patriotic  food and flowers in her post as well!

Congratulations if you were featured! I have pinned your posts to our Thursday Favorite Things Pinterest Board! I would also like to thank everyone for linking up – I visit many of your posts but don’t always comment because I have been super duper busy!

If you were featured on my blog today (or on previous days) please feel free to grab my “I was featured” button!  Either right click and download or copy and paste into your blog!

Welcome to Thursday Favorite Things! Every cohostess features posts on her blog! If you weren’t featured here, be sure to check out the other blogs as your post may have been featured there!

Join us every week as we party and share at the best link party in blog land!

Katherine-Katherines Corner

Nina-Vintage Mama’s Cottage

Debi- Surroundings by Debi

Marilyn- Marilyn’s Treats

Angelina –Peonies and Orange Blossoms

Shellie-The Fabulous Journey

Rosemary-An Italian In My Kitchen

Rina-I Thee Cook

Olivia-Reinvented Collection

 It all starts with a SIMPLE ACT OF KINDNESS

Please read the rules before participating, it will be a much more satisfying hop experience. Please visit at least two links ahead of yours.  Follow Your Hostesses.  Link to your post not your blog main page. By sharing with us you are agreeing that the photos are yours or that you have permission to use them, and that we may use your photos to feature your post on social media, pinterest or as a feature on our blogs.

Have fun we look forward to all you will share. All of the hostesses select their favorites to share in features on their blogs each week. Share your best work!

It’s time to link up your favorite things and posts!

Just click on this link below and you will be able to see the party and add your link!

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