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Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
Thank you for a wonderful year!
I cannot thank you all enough for a wonderful year here on the blog. There are so many of you that have reached out to me via email and through the blog and I appriciate it all very very much! I am looking foward to another wonderful year with high hopes and big dreams as always.
I hope you can join me as more adventure awaits- I am hoping to travel more this year and share my work with you more also.
Wishing you the best!
image by me- from a wonderful little place in Paris that I have yet to blog about!
Day Dreaming...
I am day dreaming of a sweet little apartment in the heart of Paris just like this one. Instead of being here enjoying baguettes, cheese and wine, we are taking pictures for our upcoming One Kings Lane sale today. It is amazing how much work goes into a sale. Everyone at OKL is really great and a real joy to work with which is so nice to see in a growing company like theirs.
Wishing you a wonderful day filled with dreams like this little beauty.. I suppose we have to work hard to get to a place like this one, right?
image via the Aestate
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Rocq Macarons {a giveaway}
I am super excited to share a sweet little bit of Parisian life right here in the states with you!
The amazing chef Eddie Rocq has brought us hand made Macarons beautifully packaged, that can be delivered directly to your door, making them the perfect gift.
Each of these little cookies is handmade to order and we can get them right here! I was so excited to discover that I now can have one of my favorite things here at home. Each box offers a variety of flavors and you can even select your own. I am completely loving the chocolate and the pumpkin, the hubby and my little one are partial to the Vanilla, what can you do.... They will even be offering heart shaped macarons in specialty flavors for Valentine's and Mother's Day too, how perfect is that?!
A great little note on the history of the Macaron..
The Macaron cookie was born in Italy, introduced by the chef of Catherine de Medicis in 1533 at the time of her marriage to the Duc d’Orleans who became king of France in 1547 as Henry II. The first Macarons were simple cookies, made of almond powder, sugar and egg whites. It wasn’t’ until the 20th century when French pastry chefs decided to join two macaron shells together and fill them up with buttercream, jams and ganache, which is the version we recognize and love today.
Rocq Macaron's was sweet enough to offer a box of their Holiday Collection {This is our selections of 24 Amazing flavors in the "Parisian" Box set} to one of our readers!!!!
In addition to Macarons, Chef Eddie Rocq offers fantastic catering services which we love.
To enter to win please visit the Rocq Macaron shop and leave a comment below letting us know your favorite. For an additional chance to win tweet about our giveaway (it's easy just hit the tweet button below) and leave a second comment! Our winner will be chosen at random Saturday the 10th.
Check out Rocq Macaron's on facebook and twitter too..
Parisian accents in orange..
What a great exterior detail the orange awnings seem to make. It is such a fun color combonation!
Have a wonderful Sunday, I hope you are spending the day exactly as you like to. Me I will be daydreaming of Paris..
image by Christina for greige
Grey stair risers
The wonderful things we can do with a little paint. I love love these stairs! I am not sure if the entire stair was once grey and has just worn away on the treads or not but is a very cool look. This is also showing me how putting color on the details in a space instead of the walls can be a great way to go!
Don't miss your chance to enter our giveaway!
image via mires paris
Streets of Paris..
I cannot thank you all enough for your sweet comments and emails from the last two days..
I hope you are getting ready for a nice relaxing weekend..
This weekend my littlest one is having girls weekend with me and I am very excited. Shopping and sweets and all kinds of girls only stuff!
I am dreaming of Paris right now too, I wish I could take her there for the weekend!
images by christina for greige
Parisian Chic book {giveaway}
Just a little thank you to all of you wonderful followers here on greige!
(look over 1800 of you over there)
One of my favorite books.. Parisian Chic.
The perfect book to get you on track with your fall fashion fix!
Best of luck!
For a chance to win please visit shop greige and leave a comment below, for an additional chances to win you can tweet (easy to tweet just hit retweet at the bottom of the post), follow us here on the blog or on twitter or blog about our giveaway. The winner will be chosen at random on October 5th .
Please leave a separate comment for each entry.
**Don't forget I have to be able to contact you... Please leave your name and some type of contact information if you are not able to be contacted with your profile**
Congratulations to Karlie who won our giveaway!
Chevron and Herringbone wood floors...
I have said it before and I will say it again. I love the look of Chevron and Herringbone wood flooring.. as I love the fact that the French find it to be equally important in their beautiful apartments! The floor makes the simplicity of this space just absolute perfection.
I have been daydreaming about wood flooring for our house for the past week or two.. keeping my fingers crossed that I can have some in before the holidays!
Thanks for the note... on the flooring style... sometimes I am too quick with the typing!!!
Thanks for the note... on the flooring style... sometimes I am too quick with the typing!!!
image via mires paris
Weekend wishes...
Wishing you a wonderful Saturday!
Enjoy this little bit of a day dream from the gardens at Versailles.
What are your plans for the weekend?
I think I might go by the flea market in Pasadena and see if I can plan a little picnic with the family...
Window shopping in Paris
On our first night in Paris we did a bit of window shopping after we ate. I love the shops in Paris, each has a unique and fun aesthetic. It is inspiring to just walk through the streets, peek into the shops and just imagine that you could purchase everything.
This is yet another reason that I love Paris!
images by Christina for greige
Shopping in Paris: Merci
Their natural linen bedding was amazing!
I fell in love with those lights, if they were wired for the US I would have bought a few to clip over artwork.
This is a display of a table and chairs hanging on the wall by the stairs, I love that bag!
Baby Tolix chairs
Cafe in the basement level.
While in Paris we visited Merci. This was the first time that I have been to the store and it was so fun!
It was 3 floors of great housewares, furniture, clothing, jewelry, stationary, bedding and accessories. They had an Urban Picnic theme going on which was very cool, with all types of reusable flatware, dishes etc. I did not have time to visit the little library/cafe area though sadly, it looked so cool (you can see it in this last picture that I took while we were outside).
I will be back for sure and start earlier because I love stores like this one with unique pieces and beautiful displays! If you are moving to Paris and want some goodies to fill up your place I think this would be a great place to start- the basement level has some super great pieces (like the tolix chairs- even kids chairs) and they are reasonable too!
I highly recommend it if you are visiting the city there is something for everyone!
images by christina for greige
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