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Wishing you a Wonderful weekend. It is hot hot hot here this weekend. I thought this might help!

A few ideas for summer weekends..

I think these are so fun for hanging in the trees.

Would love to win this- I know you would too!

Wishing I had a little more time to sit back and really read this beautiful book.

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As the days grow warmer and longer and we start to dip our toes into summer I long for clean casual luxuries..  Fresh greenery, fresh from the farmers market fruits and berries, time worn linens and a mix of old and new.  It gives me a feeling of freedom and getting lost in the days where our schedule is less restricting and scheduled.

Looking forward to beach days, pool days, lazy reading days and little spritzings of work in between the fun with family and friends.

Happy Summer!

 

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I am so excited for warmer nights and dining outside.  Where conversations last long into the night and the best of friends come together again...

 

Let's face it some days your inbox can be more foe than friend...   That has been my last couple of days, one icky email after another (with a few exceptions).  Well this morning when this little beauty landed in my in box I felt someone had thought of me and sent me this special getaway even if just for a few moments..  The really cool part is that you can actually go to this beautiful place and stay as long as you might like to.  This is a beautiful Villa from Haven in Paris and although it is out of my budget for travel this year it would be the perfect setting to make some beautiful memories with family and friends.

One gorgeous space after another to would invite you to relax and dream of a wonderful life in the French countryside.  Take a few minutes to go there... if even only in your dreams.. see isn't that better?  I feel better already!  (okay now back to work)

Sometimes you just need to escape to a little beach house for some R and R.  I love all of the natural textures and white mixed with that pop of color...

Happy weekend!

I just love this look and the headboards are pretty much amazing!  I love the idea of a room big enough to hold a pair of twin beds with a single table between.  Our next home will have one of these for visitors, can't you just see sweet little grand children sleeping in a pair.  

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So we made it to the picnic last weekend.  It was beautiful out in the field, a little prickly when you were sitting down but still beautiful.  I always want to do things like this but never manage to get out there so it was really fun.  We had home made quiche, fruit, bread and cheese.  

I fell in love with the wild flowers, the bushes were taller than me, which I thought was super cool.  

I also want to give a big shout out to Andrea at The French Basketeer to say THANK YOU for the lovely bag!  It held our picnic blankets, our quiche and other goodies perfectly.  (I also used it at the store before we left to buy all of the goodies).

This room is all about texture.  Clean and white with just that little added grey. 

Cool and relaxing in this late summer heat!

Go on Jump in - it's summer!  

Love those benches (the actual benches in the picture) but I love the pool more!

I hope you are enjoying the beginning of your Summer days.   Do you have big plans this summer?  We are doing a few weekend getaways but not too much, I think we will be enjoying lazy mornings and sleeping in, with our warm afternoons spent in the sun.

It has been really beautiful here the last few days in California.  

Sometimes, when I am having a difficult week like this one, I wonder am I doing the right things

with my life? Should I have just stuck with the whole stay at home mom thing?  Then I could just enjoy the sunshine with the kids!

Or just sometimes I wonder would it be easier to just work for someone else and let it all go at the end of the day?