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Holiday Decor

I just love to decorate the house for Christmas! Here are a few highlights of this year’s holiday decor… I removed the usual pillows from our living room couch to highlight this cute little Christmas tree pillow (mini pillow from Crate & Barrel) An array of candles, plants, etc… to highlight the photo of ourContinue reading “Holiday Decor”

New Art!

For our honeymoon a year and a half ago, my husband and I spent a couple weeks in France. At the end of the trip, we were in Paris for 5 or 6 days and it was just spectacular! Every night we went somewhere fantastic for dinner and one of our favorite dinners was atContinue reading “New Art!”

Window Treatment

So I took a very basic sewing class a couple years ago and have since sewed a few curtains, a few valences, and…well, that’s been it. I’m not a great sewer but I can get by and curtains and valences are the 2 easiest things to sew. Here is my latest window treatment project. IContinue reading “Window Treatment”

Fall Weekend

After a weekend of hiking in the North Conway area of New Hampshire… we decided to do the lazy man’s version of apple picking! We stopped at a little road side farm stand and picked up our fall essentials: A few pumpkins for decorating the house… A bag of apples for baking… AndContinue reading “Fall Weekend”

Basil-palooza Parts III & IV

This is my last post about basil, I promise. I just wanted to note 2 more uses of the fresh basil from our garden. A meal: Tomato, mozzarella, prosciutto sandwich: Grill ciabatta roll on a grill pan until desired crunch is reached. Pile fresh sliced tomato (lightly salt them first), mozzarella, prosciutto, and of courseContinue reading “Basil-palooza Parts III & IV”

Marimekko

I just love Marimekko prints – bold, colorful, bright! There is an amazing website where you can purchase Marimekko fabrics along with a customizable kit to create your own wall art. http://www.txtlart.com/ Buy the fabric by the yard and the wood kit according to the final size wall hanging you want. Once you get theContinue reading “Marimekko”

Behemoth Bouquet

We went to my cousin’s wedding last weekend up in the North Shore. It was lovely – ceremony overlooking the ocean, cocktail hour outside, reception in an open air tent. Perfect summer night, not too hot, not too cool… At the end of the night we realized the DJ never played a game or hadContinue reading “Behemoth Bouquet”