In celebration of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the Italian fashion house Gucci announced a special limited 8-8-2008 collection of just eight fashion accessories. And as you know, eight is considered the luckiest number in Chinese culture. The bold red color evokes “happiness” and “celebration”, two emotions that couldn’t be more appropriate to describe [...]
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Gucci & The Lucky Number 8
Posted in beauty, life, shopping, tagged 8-08-08, 8808, 888, bags, beijing olympics, bikes, designer, designer handbags, eight, fashion, Gucci, Gucci 8-8-08, handbags, lucky number 8, olympic games, olympics, purses, red, watch on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Little Slice of Heaven
Posted in Sweden, beauty, expat, fashion, interior design, life, photos, shopping, tagged antique, antiques, Audi A2, collecting, design, expensive, furniture, old, pictures, top secret, vintage on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but we know a guy who has a cousin who knows someone else who got us into this A.M.A.Z.I.N.G warehouse (read: not open to the public and or for sale in this country) stuffed to the gills with gorgeous antiques.
Now, those who know me and have been to any of my [...]
Surprise Bloom
Posted in beauty, life, nature, random, tagged bloom, flower, flowers, plants, pretty, surprise, unusual on April 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Look who happily greeted me when I came home from work* yesterday.
Does anyone know what kind of climbing plant this is?
It is one of the most interesting flowers. The pictures show the double layered long spiky looking parts as blue but they are actually bright purple. I picked this guy up at a grocery store [...]
Twiggy
Posted in beauty, expat, interior design, life, random, tagged branches, country, country living, flower arrangements, nature, simple, sticks, trees, twigs on April 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the benefits of having an address in the sticks is the sticks.
After spending the evening hitting a round of golf (or in this case Fattie playing well and me gouging ginormous divots out of the earth while he patiently and ever so kindly waited for my three – four strokes to his every [...]
What’s that smell?
Posted in beauty, expat, life, nature, photos, tagged beauty, expat, nature, photo, photography, photos, pictures, seasons, spring, Sweden, walking, winter on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The air here is filled with the aroma of spring and the landscape is diligently following right along as it loyally does each and every season.
Apparently, the trusted Swedes inform me, it’s rare to see these gorgeous sights of spring cropping up in these parts of Sweden so early in the year.
In March of [...]
Pictures from Italy
Posted in beauty, expat, life, nature, photos, travel & adventures, tagged adventure, champoluc, expat, holiday, Italian Alps, Italy, life, Monterosa Ski, mountains, my life, nature, photography, photos, pictures, ski, skiing, snow, Travel, trip, vacation, valentines day, winter on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow….What an amazing trip!
Italy for Valentines Day? Yup. A ski holiday I would have only dreamt about last year. Truly a one of a kind gift. Thanks Fattie!
Obviously, one of the great benefits of living in Europe is how easily you can hop from country to country. So a quick flight to Milan along [...]
Ah…..Italy for Valentine’s Day
Posted in beauty, life, nature, photos, tagged adventure, Alps, Europe, family, friends, holiday, Italy, life, Love, nature, photography, photos, pictures, romance, skiing, snow, snowboarding, Travel, vacation, valentine, valentines day, valentines day present, winter on February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How lucky am I? A trip to Italy!
It was supposed to be a surprise combo Valentines/birthday gift from Fattie but he just couldn’t keep his lips sealed. He spilled it. And I’m thrilled. What a good boy.
Every girls needs at least one pair. Probably two.
Posted in beauty, fashion, shopping, tagged beauty, boots, chooka, chooka boots, cool boots, country, country life, design, fashion, footwear, fun, functional, galoshes, gumshoes, hip, life, mud, rain, rain boots, random, rubber boots, shoes, shopping, style, thoughts, trends, wellies on January 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s official. I now live in the country.
It’s truly gorgeous here. We’re sitting in-between the 4th & 5th holes on a luscious green and manicured golf course overlooking a tranquil lake. It’s like living in the middle of a resort.
However, as beautiful and peaceful as it is, coming from a busy metropolitan city I wasn’t [...]
And speaking of tasty….
Posted in beauty, music, random, tagged entertainment, Indiana, iTunes, Jon McLaughlin., male singers, music, sexy on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another hottie boy with some tremendous talent. The 24 year old singer/songwriter, Jon McLaughlin.
His CD Indiana, named after his home state in America, is certainly worth a listen.
Wearing stilettos on the farm
A city girl from the states falls in love while working her 9-5 in Holland and wakes up to find herself living on a golf course in the Swedish countryside.
Don’t Be Shy.
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