Weekend announcements

 

Susan from the blog LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE  launched on her blog a few days ago, a serie called “Her Personal Space…At Home With…”. She asked some bloggerfriends -even me-, to participate and to send her some pictures of a room or a space at home they love to retreat, to take a break.

Past weekend she posted about the favorite spots of Vicky at Room Service~Decorating 101 and about my favorite ones.

If you are interested in discovering my favorite spots to retreat, you should visit Susan’s post HERE.

More blogger favorite spots to see this weekend at Susan’s blog!

Susan and her dog Sam, nestled at her favorite home spot.

You  will love Susan’s blog! She gives us a lot of decorating ideas!

 

As this panel with a wall light installed behind.

 

Or the use of this lovely kitchen wall paper!

Thank you so much Susan for giving me the opportunity to participate in this serie!

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And there is another Susan I want you to meet! Susan at TWO MAISONS blog. Susan lives in France, in a beautiful village in Provence!

Can you imagine! This postcard view is from the window of Susan’s bedroom!!!

 

When I saw Susan’s post about her kitchen redo, I was so excited about it, that I wanted all of you my readers, to see it!

This is a picture of her beautiful kitchen door!

Please go to see this ‘before and after post HERE !!! You will love this post and you will certainly love Susan’s blog!!

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This week I discovered a new Italian blog , called  MAISON CHARMANTE.

Unfortunately Ididn’t found the name of the author yet. But I enjoyed her posts!

The author is living in Tuscany and tells a lot about the work at her home in progress .

The author’s house in progress.

And she write a lot of posts of dream houses!

One of the dream house posts pictures.

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And a totally different subject I want to bring up today is about young piano players in my family!

Yes my family counts a lot of piano players. My mother plays the piano, my father did, my brother does, my uncle does,…

And now I want you to meet the youngest two piano players of our family:

My nephew Alex, who is the son of my brother and my youngest nephew Justin, who is my sister’s son.

Both of them have to do their examination within a couple of days! By posting a picture and a video of them on my blog I would encourage them and wishing these boys good luck with the examination!

Alex, who is 14 years old plays the piano for about 4 years now.

Unfortunately I have no video clip of Alex playing the piano.

 

If you love piano music , then you will enjoy this video of Justin, our youngest piano player in the family!

Justin who is 11 years old plays the piano for 2 years now.

Good luck boys!

 

And to all of you a wonderful weekend!

xx

Weekend announcements

  Susan from the blog LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE  launched on her blog a few days ago, a serie called “Her Personal Space…At Home With…”. She asked some bloggerfriends -even me-, to participate and to send her some pictures of a room or a space at home they love to retreat, to take a break. Past weekend she posted about the favorite spots of Vicky at Room Service~Decorating 101 and about my favorite

Our Venetian Wedding.

Stephanie at  Angelic Accents  is not only the sweetest lady but also such a romantic.  Today she is hosting a Wedding Blog Party.  Please drop by and check out all the wonderful weddings and Stephanie's collection of wedding memorabilia.

I posted recently about our wedding in Venice but I did want to join the fun at  Angelic Accents.  You can see the entire post and pictures of our wedding  HERE.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend.

xo, Sherry

Kooky's Return: the most amazing movie ever made!!!!!

I am totally obsessed with this movie!!!!! I have never, ever been so excited about any film as I am about this one. "Kooky's Return" is the most amazing, imaginative, crazy, quirky, wonderful film ever made. So unusual and so funny and sweet. It is about a little teddy bear but it has the most incredible characters I have ever seen. Mostly filmed in the forest, using real, handmade little people, animals and the oddest, most curious creatures you'll ever see.......made from things from the forest, worn out fabrics, metal, plastic, all kinds of wonderful materials.

If you go to google and look for "Kooky's official page", that will take you to the real website about the film. Then go to Kooky's Facebook page and there you can see trailers of the film and the most incredible, amazing videos of the making of the movie. You can also see the film on Youtube in English. You really need to hear the story in English because it's such a great story. "Kooky's Return" is from Czechoslovakia; the director is Jan Sverak, who has done some really wonderful feature films. "Kooky's Retrun" is a feature film but it is so different, I absolutely cannot wait to see it. It is now showing in Czechoslovakia, it opened in theaters this May here, but won't be available on DVD in the U.S. until next October. I actually wrote to the director about how to purchase the film and I was so surprised that he wrote me back. So, we'll have to wait until the fall to see the actual film but the trailers and the making of the movie videos are wonderful for now. I really hope you will go to the "Kooky's Return" website and see the trailers, etc. It is so wonderful!!!!!

Let me know what you think!!

Have a great weekend, wherever you are!

Debbie

Whats Your Favorite Place In The House?

The ultra  talented Blayne at  This Photographers Life  has asked Whats Your Favorite Place In The House.  You can submit your answer and pictures of your favorite place to McLinky to enter her fabulous giveaway.  Blayne will choose her favorite five rooms and then  you  get to vote on your favorite. The winner will receive a gorgeous black pearl lariat from Nastro Bello.

My submission is our family room. This is the space that was a total compromise on my part and has now turned into one of my favorite rooms. If you have been following my blog you have seen photos of other rooms in our house and know that my decorating leans toward french country, shabby chic and more light and airy. Our previous homes have all been decorated in this style.

 As some of you have read we moved into this home one year ago with only four pieces of furniture. I started designing this home with the four pieces of furniture.... no beds, lamps, linens, cookware, dishes ect.  You can read more about this Here.

Hubby gave me pretty much free rein on the design with only one request....don't make the family room girly! I thought this was a fair request because to be honest most of our home is more feminine. Hey, He lives with toile in our bedroom. I took this to heart and tried to design a family room that was warm, cozy and somewhat masculine. A room that both of us would be comfortable with and that we could entertain our family and friends in.  Keep in mind that all of the decorating had to be done on a tight budget...and I do mean tight!

The inserts in the coffer ceiling are faux painted copper and the walls are alligator green. Most of the furniture, rugs and accessories were bought at auction, consignment shops, Craigslist or flea markets.  I have always believed you can have a beautiful home by being resourceful and without spending a lot of money.

Baskets were collected from various flea markets and garage sales.

A high end shop went bankrupt and I was able to buy these two Deruta signed lamps also bought at auction.

Wall unit was a steal at the auction

I did incorporate some of my Italian Pottery.

Winter look

This room I designed for my Hubby has turned out to be my favorite place in the house. This is where we sit and talk about our day, watch television, sometimes eat and always entertain. There is nothing in this room that is intimidating for our guest. We wanted everyone to feel welcome and not be concerned about the furniture, sitting drinks down or walking on the rugs.

I hope you have enjoyed this tour of our family room. If you like our room I would appreciate your vote at This photographers life.  Thanks so much!

I will be joining the parties at This Photographers Life,   Romantic Home,  Silly Little Sparrow,   Somewhat Simple,  In The Fun Lane,  Chic On A Shoe String Decorating, and  We Are That family.


Hugs,
Sherry

Sweet Carolyna

I have a sweet almost nine year old friend who is very special to me.  Her name is Carolyna.

Yesterday, Carolyna gave me this beautiful vase filled with gorgeous white Daisys....just because.  Because...she has the gift of giving and building others up.

You want to know what makes this gift so special?  Well, first, I love white flowers of any kind.  Second, I absolutely love Diet Dr. Pepper so this Dr. Pepper bottle for a vase was perfect.  And, third, is the most important reason.  This is a little girl who is beyond precious.  She is my very special friend and I love her a whole bunch.

Thank you, sweet Carolyna.

173, Boulevard St.Germain, Paris

 

Yes, this is the address of the new flagship store of Ralp Lauren in Paris!

What a gorgeous building, isn’t it!

The building has been restored over the past four years and includes six floors of retail space, including a restaurant in the old stable’s called RALPH’S which will strive to serve the best burgers and fries in the city!!!

Sharing pictures of that restaurant is what I wanted to do today! I love the exterior of the building as well as the interior of the restaurant!

Let’s have a look…

 

The entrance.

 

The courtyard of the ‘hôtel particulier’.

 

 

What do you think? Can you imagine sitting here to have dinner?

 

 

I love the way of mixing the seats, upholstered in the typical RL fabric, with the wrought iron French chairs.

 

Fabulous door!

 

And on below some pictures of the interior of the restaurant in the RL spirit of course.

 

This post wouldn’t be complete if I hadn’t posted some images of the store!

 

For those who love to see the making of the new Ralph Lauren flagship store in Paris, you can watch this video.

 

Well my friends, when we ever join in Paris, we could meet at RALPH’S, boulevard St. Germain,

sitting in these cozy seats, while talking and…

…tasting this chilled sweet pea soup with minted crème fraîche.

Or…

…enjoying this ‘frozen margarita’, the favorite cocktail of Mr Ralph Lauren.

Cheers!

See you in Paris !!!

xx

image 1 : Here

image 2,9,10,11,12,13,15,16 : Here

image 3,14 : scanned from magazine Residence 07/08 2010

image 4,5,6,7,8,17,18,19 : scanned  from magazine Côté Paris juin/juillet 2010