Summertime, & the living is easy....

Splish Splash

ahhhhhh, the beautiful blue water meeting the beautiful blue sky

welcome to the pool

don't we all know exactly how refreshing this is?

beautiful billowing glamourous gorgeous dress

bon voyage

Bonjour, Happiness

A delightful little snippet of a book,

written by an American woman with French ancestry.

Explaining her observations of aging...

the differences between the French values and the American ones.

Witty, caustic, sensible, and quite correct in her assumptions.

Mostly important to women as they enter their 50's & beyond.

About how intellect, experience, wit, charm & life well-lived

are so much more important than what we see in the mirror. 

Attributes so much more important in making life worth living at every age.

A great gift for a mother, aunt, sister or friend.

Welcome to my new followers !!

I appreciate each of my friends/followers so very much.

I work very hard to produce interesting content for

these pages so, hopefully, my girlfriends will enjoy

each post.

Tomorrow, tear stains on white dogs...

how to remedy this correctly.

xx's



Simply Irresistible Paris

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Please join me on me today

for the Simply Irresistible Day in Paris,

hosted by Anita of
Castles, Crowns and Cottages

Castle, Crowns and Cottages
HERE

This is the way I used to travel,

before the airlines charged so much for baggage.

Now, I just wear black.

I simply could not resist playing ABBA's

Our Last Summer

and Francoise Hardy's music in her native French,

hope you enjoy & understand ABBA still rules for me!



Welcome to Paris!

Come along with me as we spend our day in this truly beautiful city.

We're not going to do the ordinary things, as you would guess if you

know me at all.

Starting our at the Hotel Lotti on Rue de Castiglione ideally

located in the 1st Arrondissement,

the Westin Vendome is right next door if you prefer...

from the location you can walk almost everywhere, which is

hugely important in this lovely city, as if you're a tourist walking is the

only way to see everything.

hopefully, you have studied a map, googleEarth, or something to

give you an idea where you are, otherwise you will waste a whole

lot of time getting oriented.

From our hotel you are close to the Jardin Tuileries, which is

an absolute must-see, it was originally designed for horse-drawn

carriages and pedestrians and the pathway is still the same.

We travel with our French Poodle, FiFi, so we must stay

near a green area.  Also, you step out into the street, walk a few

steps and you're on the Rue St. Honore, the most amazing shopping

street filled with sidewalk cafes....heavenly.

But, for this morning, we have to go get breakfast, don't we?

So, off to Angelina's which is as well-known as

Laudaree, but closer to our hotel & starting point,

just down the Rue de Rivoli.

we could wear something like this as it is so Parisian

you must not miss the divine Guerlain Perfume Shoppe

directly across the street from the hotel.

Amazing.

Fortified, continue on the Galeries Lafayette,

even if you don't want to shop go to see the architecture,

and have a glass of champagne on their roof terrace where

you overlook the city.

Find one of the beautiful

Au Nom de la Rose Shops

which are all around the city

precious restaurant in Montmarte

time to regroup back at the hotel...put away all the parcels & goodies,

and take our walk to one of the sidewalk cafes, sit outside, have a glass of

lovely white wine, and order something simple,

continue on to Place de la Concorde,

and depending on your stamina, you can walk along the Seine,

or cross one of the bridges into another world, one so much smaller,

much more interesting to most of us, all the shops and antiques, books,

and art of the Marais...

to be transported to the original square in Paris

Place des Vosges

take a quick taxi ride,

see a complete post I did on this wonder,

HERE


Anita and all the ladies are having dinner tonight so we must get
back to the hotel and get dressed. What do you think I should wear?

I think it will be this black one...

Anita is staying at the Four Season Hotel George V,
and everyone is having dinner in the
5-Star Restaurant Le Cinq.


Please see a post I did about the flowers in
the George V


HERE

I encourage each of you to click over to my other posts
as they were done with much detail and are very interesting
about details of Paris...

Another snippet of Paris you will enjoy is the
fabulous blog called
Paris Breakfast
from Carol Gillot who is an artist
and does wonderful watercolors which are
available via her shop on Etsy.

She has a great blog with lots of cool entries of interesting
places in Paris...
to go over to see her click below:

HERE




I cannot tell you how happy I am to be in Paris
with so many wonderful girlfriends. 
Everyone is celebrating!
Everyone is coming back together.

Sending love from The City of Light
to all of you....



Favorite Things Friday

Castles, Crowns and Cottages HERE

how easy is this to achieve

& I love the look of collections,

especially fashion...

Victoria Beckham LBD

Coming up, Saturday, will be linking to
Castles, Crown & Cottages
for
A Day in Paris
&
Pink Saturday's 3rd Birthday Party
(maybe it's held in Paris?)


major research going on now for a creative, beautiful post
in honor of these wonderful blog hostesses.




xx's

Earrings, Polyvore, Brad Pitt & The Tree of Life Movie + American Idol Finale

Going to cover a lot of territory in this post it looks like.

Polyvore just noticed, today, that

Feather Earrings

are in the Top 10 of trends among their polyvorians,

of which I am one :)'s

OK.  As I told Taj Acosta in a comment on her blog,

Gorgeous Glam

which you will find

HERE

Splenderosa has been designing a new collection

of beautiful, elegant & very fashion-forward

feather earrings...herea are a few pics, which are very bad,

but, hey, one can't be good at everything...

White Topaz Dangle, Swarovski crystals on feathers, sterling silver

Double Sterling circles hand wire-wrapped with black wire,

gold rings, black feathers with Swarovskis

Double-Sided Swarovski Rings

with copper-colored Swarovskis on feather dangles

Copper wire hand-wrapped rings with Labradorite pear drops,

Swarovski crystals on feather dangles

Go to Polyvore to see examples of ensembles

created by others using feather earrings,

HERE

Our feather earrings are made to the same standards as

all of the other semi-precious Splenderosa jewelry,

in other words, only the best.

The Tree of Life

a new film with

Brad Pitt & Sean Penn

premiered in L.A. a couple of nights ago,

and after watching various trailers I am certain this

will be a major triumph for Mr. Pitt.

He should have won an Oscar already, Inglourious Basterds

was one of the best films ever made, so maybe this year

will be his time...anyway the film was made by the
Austin, Texas-based Terrance Malik, and
was filmed in Texas, a lot of it in Houston.

You can read a rave review almost anywhere.

My thoughts are that ANYTHING

George Clooney

or

Brad Pitt

is in is worth the price & the time of a real movie

in a real theatre.


American Idol Finale
my take
after James left I lost interest in the talent,
but last night's closing show was a show & 1/2.

Jack Black,
totally adorable.

Mark Antony & JLo,
you can tell they are in love
& she is absolutely so brilliantly cute/beautiful
over-the-top with her costumes & dancing,
loved loved loved this bit.

SEE THEM HERE




Beyonce

There must be someone in attendance on her staff
whose sole job must be the wind machine ALWAYS
blowing on her and, amazingly, no one else.
I'll give it to my fellow Houstonian,
SHE  can sing and SHE can dance.

SEE HER HERE



Lady GaGa

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G

 SEE HER HERE


BONO

& the Spider Man bit
was beautiful. 
Bono is my dog's namesake because my dog
thinks he's a rockstar and, honey, who else
would I have named him after?

 SEE PERFORMANCE HERE


STEVEN TYLER

he closed the show.
he definitely closed the show.
No one, no one, no one
is as talented musically as he is, and
no one can  write music like he does
and no one can sing like he can.
In his 60's he's more beautiful than ever
because now we know he has heart.

 SEE STEVEN HERE

Coming up, Saturday, will be linking to

Castles, Crown & Cottages

for

A Day in Paris

& 

Pink Saturday...

major research going on now for a creative, beautiful post

in honor of these wonderful blog hostesses.

xx's