This is the last in a series to take you on a tour of our home in progress. You can see other spaces here: Our Bedroom, Élie’s Room, The Living Room, and The Kitchen One of the best features of our apartment is the long hallway that connects all the rooms. It isn’t very wide, […]
While grand compared to the studio apartment we lived in previously, our current two-bedroom apartment is not huge and lacks the two floor to ceiling closets we had in the entry of our studio as well as the basement storage room. In fact, this apartment came with nearly zero storage. When we moved in there […]
I’ve been so busy plowing ahead on a work project (al.most.done!) that I’ve been missing my time writing here! But i thought I’d share some home dreaming I’ve been doing in little snatches of time here and there. See, this past weekend our one and a half year old Ikea PS Lövas broke. The thing […]
These two little scenes have been making me happy all week while I’m working at my desk: a pretty glass and a pitcher of water with cucumber slices and the shelf above my desk that has a vintage postcard of the center of my tiny Maine town, an old photo of a French stranger strolling […]
We had a nice long weekend (but we want another!): Thursday through Sunday. Thursday morning, we bundled the Bug into his carrier and the three of us headed to Orléans for an escape. We managed to pack quite a bit into the four days including a viewing of Skyfall (oh how I love this film), […]
Things are getting spooky in here! At least, that’s what Albert is saying (I think). It’s been an up-and-down week with my father having unexpected emergency surgery yesterday across the ocean. Stressful. We are so grateful that it went very well and soon we can look forward to the recovery stage. And thankful for […]
Hello! Happy Monday. Yesterday proved to be the announcer of a week of Indian summer* here in Paris. The days are balmy (even hot this afternoon) and the sun has returned from its two weeks of hiding. I am starting to forget what season it is completely. When we headed to the marché yesterday, my […]
I gushed about my Klismos desk chair finally being finished and lookin’ pretty gorgeous last Friday and today I grabbed some pictures to show him off! We bought two of these chairs for a great price on the other side of Paris and dragged them back home on public transportation but they needed a lot […]
On Tuesday we celebrated Albert’s fifth birthday. One year ago that day we adopted him from a shelter in the north of Paris. Of course, we don’t know his real birthday but he was estimated to be 4 years old when we adopted him and that day seemed like a perfect spot to create a […]
When the air starts to cool down, I start to imagine being able to use the oven again. Our little counter top model throws out a lot of heat and I usually avoid it if I can in the summer. But now, now I want muffins. The perfect weekend breakfast. At least one of them. […]
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