Fall Flowers

What a great day, flower shopping with my favorite florist, bebe prank calls, coloring, coupe décalé before bed time and now to listen to last nights debate with a bloody mary.

Let's Pretend Paris Apartment

We will be staying in Paris until the end of the year so I am doing a little work on our apartment. At one time the place was split into two apartments with two doors and a fireplace in each room. I would love to have a fireplace to light now that it is cold and rainy outside more often then not, however many paris fireplaces have been walled off to reduce smoke and smog and the chances of setting the building on fire. So I'm doing my best to make the place dark and warm and cozy, here is some inspiration. 

dream view

bookish bedroom 

brocante bathroom 

carmel office chairs

lovely living room

Let's Pretend Camping Sauvage

For when it stops raining...

La Vie en Turquoise

Do you have a favorite color? I'm off to the hardware store to buy some turquoise paint this weekend! Image credit:
1 dipped bamboo cutlery via anthropologie 
2 beach via tumbler
2b porch via the style files
3 stationary via antiquaria
4 chair of my dreams via anthropoligie 
5 dipped pots via a beautiful mess
6 couch via young house love
7 The Grand Hotel Central in Barcelona via The Fancy 
8 flower juggs source unknown

Our First House

We have moved into our villa! It was not simple so I hope the psychological theory that the harder your work for something, the more you appreciate it, holds true. The first night we were welcomed by a tropical hurricane which knocked out the power, phone lines, water and took down a few trees on top of michel's new motor bike just for good measure. Kade, the extremely nice girl who works brought us candles at midnight which was a heaven sent because Theo was up with a fever, because of new top teeth and the place was black as oil. In the morning everything looked fine though, even Michel's bike once the trees were pried off. 

Our new house is one of six encircling a beautiful stone pool. Each villa is draped in tropical plants, bamboo three stories high, and old trees. The houses seem quiet old, each with a stone fence and wooden doors. The owner is a sustainable development architect and the houses are filled with unique touches like our bamboo stairs which are separated from the outside only by screens and lattice allowing the wind to flow through and up the house.

Theo is absolutely enamored with the koy pond.