getaway... kauai

 

I am daydreaming of our trip this week.  As summer winds down all I can think of is the fun we have had and that the late nights and sleepy mornings are going to disappear so quickly.  Oh how I am going to miss them.  We visited Kauai in July just the four of us and it was so amazing.  We fell in love with the island all over again.  This is a little bit of our trip and the amazing beaches and sites...  (I am sparing you all of the food pictures that I took!)

Happy Friday my friends!

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weekend wishes...

 

We will be traveling inter island this weekend and even though I am sad so leave this beautiful place I am looking forward to another adventure..

Some fun things from this week..

July 21st is National Ice Cream day which is my new favorite holiday, remember to enjoy!

Day dreaming about beach house design..

Needing this sweet chambray shirt

Something fun!

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weekend wishes

 

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend so far!  It is going really nicely here.  The weather is perfect and I am doing a little "summer cleaning" as Spring completely passed me by.  I found out yesterday that our container has left France and I could not be more excited!  It means a lot of work but hopefully fun work to come.  Keeping our fingers crossed that it all goes well!

Just a few things that caught my eye this week ...

Another fantabulous looking lemon tart recipe.. (I say looking because I like a good photo with my recipes)

I am completely smitten with Jenny's art..  simply wonderful to have an original piece!

Would love to spend a little time here.

image via christina for greige

 

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Lunch at Merci's Used Book Cafe

This is the first trip that I have gotten to visit the Used book cafe at Merci.  Each time we have been running late and closing down the store..  This time I was able to visit Merci, lets just say often (read 5 or 6 times), because it was just around the corner from our apartment.  If I lived there all the time I would be poor.. I love their stuff and my apartment would be amazing!!  We had a chance to have a late lunch there one afternoon and it was perfect!  We sat in my dream spot by the window over looking the door so I could see the people coming and going.  The waiter was sweet and the food was wonderful.  I loved it and vowed to stop again during out trip but never made it back to eat there. 

That day the little mini was getting a make over and so was the shop, which was super fun to watch unfold over the few times that we visited.

This was by far one of the best things I have ever eaten.  Amazing and perfect.

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Flea markets of Paris...

When we visited Paris last month our goal, aside from eating and drinking everything in site was to shop.  I know it is terrible right!  We were in the process of trying to fill our first container to ship back to the States.  We started out in Paris at the flea markets and could have shopped there for days but as you know travel does not always allow for days and days of endless browsing and then going back to make final purchases and decisions.  Things move so fast it can be hard to know if you have made the right choices for weeks to come.  I know I should have bought the chairs that are shown below, I am kicking myself now for doubting my first inclination.  I love these chairs and I hope that they find a wonderful home somewhere in the world.. they are so amazing! 

Aside from that I tried not to pass up anything that spoke to me.   I finally had to realize that anything is possible with the right amount of determination and dare I say money behind it.  We did end up dragging dress forms and multiple goodies back with us on the metro, yep they looked at us like we were crazy but whatever, they did that every time we spoke to them in English after starting with "bonjour".  It was amazing to buy furnishings and accessories with the idea that we would be having them here in such a short time.  I am looking forward to getting all of our goodies and setting up for our first container sale!

 

 

We loved all of the displays, the talent in these flea markets blows away what we see here at home.  Although I must say that we have to remember these are permanent spaces not pop ups.

 

This space was amazing, I wanted every book!  I love the green blue!

 

This big guy was so cool and calm, he just wanted to chill not shop.

 

These two I did not manage to leave.  They are perfect and I love them.  I will also love them when they get home to me in my living room thank you very much!

 

I did pass this sweet little thing up.. I was tired and did not even ask the price - a mistake I know!

 

Gorgeous!

 

This vendor said this was a painting of his mother in law.  His booth was super cool!

 

(This picture is for Loi)

 

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Recovery...

 Just wanted to share a few of my favorite instagram pictures from the trip.  I promise to go through my photos over the holiday weekend and share a bit with you next week.  Every time I visit Paris I fall for it all over again even though she really makes you work for it!  I am exhausted when I return from these trips both physically and mentally!   This weekend I will do my best to fully recover!

I also want to extend a huge THANK YOU to the girls that were nice enough to guest post for us while I was away!  I could not have done it without you!  Thank you to Andrea, Si, and Shari!

 

 

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