Valentine Fun, Estate Sales, and a Cotswolds Inspired LA Home

On this put up, a number of enjoyable Valentine concepts, property sale finds, and Mikel Welch’s Cotswolds impressed house..

Happy Saturday. I hope the climate is getting hotter the place you’re. I understand how laborious it’s been in some components of this nation, so I nearly really feel responsible concerning the false spring we had this week. It bought me impressed sufficient to get out into the backyard and muck round and perform a little winter clear up. I used to be even motivated to seize a few of the Trader Joe’s tulips and replant them in my terracotta pots for the entrance porch…

I harvested a ton of lemons and put some on the entrance yard to share.

Valentines Day!

Valentine’s Day is one in every of my favourite holidays. I’ve such completely satisfied reminiscences related with it. My mother Sue all the time had somewhat mini field of sweets, and a few cash, and a pair of socks or one thing comparable ready for us on our breakfast plates. We grew up considering Valentine’s was not only for romance, however for doing candy issues for particular individuals in our lives. I cherished making particular Valentine’s for buddies and academics and grandparents after I was small.

When our boys have been small, we might have somewhat picnic dinner by the hearth at night time for the household. Jackson and Griffin preferred making placards and chocolate dipped strawberries for the dessert. One 12 months Griffin and I made coronary heart bow and arrows for his classmates with cinnamon gummy hearts and pretzel sticks. I simply got here throughout these images once more from 2012! A enjoyable exercise to do with children.

A couple of years in the past I had a Galentine’s lunch. Why not throw collectively somewhat impromptu lunch or dinner, or as an alternative tea and muffins for girlfriends? It’s such a pleasant option to present you’re keen on your folks or neighbors. Details for all of it this put up.

Valentine’s can also be the day Max and I bought engaged. I can not imagine it’s been 30 years!

I believe on Valentine’s, Max and I’ll do a picnic, because it’s a Saturday. Hopefully, will probably be sunny and we are able to add a stroll or hike to that. I plan to make these chocolate chia seed raspberry hearts (recipe on this put up) which are so easy- plus some sandwiches, potato chips, and bottles of tea. (If you make these, freeze them in a single day or longer in order that they keep collectively to your picnic.)

If you want concepts for a picnic and stroll, Max and I just like the Palo Alto Baylands or Shoreline for a pleasant stroll and chicken watching (each on this put up) and that is one other of my favorites in SF together with an excellent brunch spot.

My first niece, Veronica was additionally born on that day! She shall be 30 and time has flown. I am keen on her. I simply ordered her a monogrammed mini-totes that Juliet shared on this post. I plan so as to add a shawl to it like she did. I really like mine!

Estate Sales

Are you one who follows property gross sales? I’m not a daily. Last Saturday we have been up the Peninsula with buddies and my pal Erin, who does observe them, talked about there have been many who weekend. We determined to swing by one close by Menlo Park and I’m so glad we did. We got here after lunchtime, however there have been nonetheless so many treasures available. The proprietor had moved, however her household was clearing out her charming cottage of collections. It was a type of gross sales that you just received’t neglect. She had cash, style, -and shopped lots!

The house had beautiful wallpapers and exquisite upholstered sofas. She collected a lot, however particularly Italian and English pottery and dishes, she cherished gingham and in addition Ralph Lauren. So a lot was unused, nonetheless of their packaging or like new. It was overwhelming. My pal Erin scored a set of handpainted Italian dinnerware that was tremendous cute. I purchased a plate for my wall and an Italian pitcher, and a blue bowl. The plate regarded like Juliska, however stated ‘handpainted Oxford England 1996’ on the again. I put the pitcher on my bathtub counter and I believe will probably be cute for somewhat flower. The blue bowl I’m utilizing on my desk for odds and ends.

This woman had rooms of ribbons, Valentine, Easter, and different vacation themed hoards of recent issues unopened. She had bins and bins of gorgeous model new greeting playing cards, place playing cards, desk runners, and overflowing bins of recent rubber stamps. In the yard there have been distinctive terracotta and stone pots for miles. I additionally got here house with some beautiful bolts of recent ribbons for my wrap drawer, a brand new coronary heart dishtowel from Austria, and a coronary heart rubber stamp. All of my issues got here to lower than . The cash went to a charity league she was a part of.

I’m so thrilled with my purchases, I believe I’ll try to get to extra of those. Ours was discovered on EstateSales.org the place you possibly can slender the world and sort of gross sales you wish to be notified about. Not all property gross sales are like this, however some are value exploring. You can often inform by the images posted, however not all the time. I do suppose it’s wonderful means so as to add extra distinctive issues to your home- and plenty of are higher high quality than you should buy now.

Is there an awesome discover you may have from an property sale? I’m all the time in search of cool artwork too!

On My Radar.. Valentine Things…

A couple of issues that charmed me this week….

How lovely is that this teeny heart sweatshirt? These charming napkins could be enjoyable for a Valentine dinner, or anytime they’re so cute.

I used to be despatched this excellent Uni body serum (a cross between a lotion and a serum) and I didn’t count on to find it irresistible a lot! I really feel prefer it’s making my pores and skin look higher too. Uni makes ‘ocean powered’ bodycare products which are good for the earth and folks..

If you’ve ever needed a coronary heart appeal necklace, Roxanne Assouline has the good choices the place you possibly can construct your personal, or simply get a small one like this pink one. I LOVE all of them!

Mikel Welch’s Cotswold’s Inspired L.A. Cottage

I had this on maintain to observe for per week and eventually bought to flee for a bit and soak up this complete beautiful tour. Mikel is a designer and can also be on the Drew Barrymore present as a design knowledgeable. What I loved a lot was his option to maintain this Tudor cottage simply as it’s, quirks and all. He used colour, wallpapers and inspiration from his journeys to the English countryside to create one thing particular. Wait till you see his bathtub within the backyard!

You can observe Mikel here on Instagram and his e-book, The Forever Home, is here.

This week in America

It’s been a tough week listening to the worst of the Epstein Files. It’s unconceivable that Trump is in them greater than 38,000 instances and claims he’s absolved by them. We now know what sort of males are at present working this nation and it’s darkish.

Friday’s racist tweet by Trump depicting the Obamas as apes was one thing that was left up for 12 hours and his press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated individuals must cease the ‘fake outrage’ whereas it was nonetheless up.

Right now I can’t be ok with being an American. I additionally really feel powerless.

I wore my Lingua Franca ‘I miss Barack’ sweater on Friday. I used to be so glad to have it as I needed to yell this from the rooftops. They have so many good resistance sweaters and sweatshirts. The latest ones here.

There are some issues we are able to do although to harm these rich males like Bezos, Tim Cook, and others who’re kissing the ring, and making this terrible man extra wealthy and highly effective…. We can use our greenbacks. Women control 85% of all purchases and 91% of house merchandise shopping for. We maintain the facility of the purse and might transfer mountains as a bunch.

Don’t use Amazon, and get off Prime. You could not know that Shopbop, Zappos, and Whole Foods are additionally owned by Bezos. Try getting off Prime for one month. That is the problem and it’s not as wanted as you suppose it’s. WHY would we wish to proceed to make this man the wealthiest? It is all us and our decisions which are doing it.

I drove to Whole Foods this week as I actually wanted one thing solely they carry. Just as I used to be parking, as if from the universe, somebody despatched me this video of the Washington Post staffer speaking about how Jeff Bezos gutted the paper this week , together with overseas protection. The paper, whose motto was, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ has succumbed to only that, with narcissistic Bezo’s on the helm. What a loss for journalism and this nation. I turned the automotive on, and by no means went into the shop. Turns out, there are quite a lot of issues I can stay with out, particularly these issues making Bezos extra highly effective.

Last week Juliet shared Scott Galloway’s month long targeted boycott to harm this administration and the way they’re doing it:

Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, (like Bezos) surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchecked. Americans, nonetheless, have a robust weapon that has been hiding in plain sight.

First, we should acknowledge that the president is unfazed by citizen outrage, the courts, or the media. He responds to at least one factor: the market. The most potent weapon to withstand the administration is a focused, month-long nationwide financial strike — a coordinated marketing campaign that assaults tech firms and companies enabling ICE  — to inflict most injury with minimal affect on customers. In sum, the shortest path to alter with out hurting customers is an financial strike focused on the firms driving the markets and enabling our president.

– Scott Galloway

Let’s do that!

Go to his web page to see what companies we can take action and unsubscribe from. This is one option to shake issues up.

The Olympics!

I’m so excited to observe these winter video games from Milan and Cortina. We want the escape. I really like the winter sports activities and our household was glued to the television watching Olympics as child. They say that is the most effective American Olympic staff we now have had in a long time. I really like the determine skating and snowboarding probably the most.

Italians do all the pieces with type, and the opening ceremonies have been beautiful. I believe it’s so enjoyable to see these areas extra in depth. I’m wanting ahead to some really feel good tales. We may actually use them proper now! How about you? Are you an Olympic fan? I believe Lake Placid was my favourite Olympic video games, however my children bear in mind the Salt Lake one and Shawn White a lot. He’s a commentator this time!

WWD has a look here in any respect the uniforms by nation and a few are fairly cool. More implausible pics and updates here on NYTimes and the NBC Olympic site is excellent with all of the occasion instances, movies, articles, and blogs to get your Olympic repair and never miss a factor. Photo under NYTimes…

If you missed final week’s put up, a floral impressed Piedmont house, flower pins so as to add to your seems, a Quince jacket I really like, the most effective lemon pound cake, and extra non Estée Lauder firm beauty choices to think about.

Happy weekend and thanks for being right here,

Kim

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