16 posts categorized "Travel"

Friday, November 06, 2009

French Friday: Edition Welcome Home Mr.T!

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Bonjour Internet, mon grand silence cette semaine et due en grand partie a trois choses. Thierry est en mission. Les enfants étaient en vacances. Je préparé mes prochaines ateliers. Ces trois choses ont tout changé juste à temps pour le weekend. Yahoo!

Thierry arrive bientôt après une petite semaine en Irlande. (Il est à Paris as we speak.) La photo en haut (prise lors de nos séjours à Biarritz pendant la Toussaint) décrit bien ma semaine seule avec les enfants. Ordre désordonnée. Désordre ordonnée. Comme vous-voulez. En tout cas, j'ai plus que survécu mais je suis quand même très très contente de retrouver Thierry. 

Jeudi c était la reprise d'école. Dur, dur pour moi, mais pas spécialement pour Andrea et Maxi. Dur car normalement c est Thierry le lève-tôt chez nous. Moi, je me lève mais je mets au moins 3/4 heures pour me réveillé. Donc a moi de me lever, lever les garçons et SORTIR DANS LE FREAKIN' FROID. Dur je vous dites. Mais tout c est passé nickel. Maxi était notre réveille :) Finalement ça serve a me rappelez combien j'apprécie que Thierry se en occupe normalement. Merci Thierry.

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Les kits pour mes prochaines ateliers sont arrivés pendant qu'on était à Biarrtiz. Donc cette semaine je tout préparé. Même si les thèmes et techniques était déjà fixée, l'inspiration de mon weekend à Montpellier pour {ea} est bien présent. Détailles sur touts les ateliers dispo de ce soir (au à plus tard samedi matin) dans The Juiceletter ou ici sur le blog de lundi.

J'ai une liste longissime des choses a faire/ranger/jeter/commander/planifier que j'ai aucune idée de que est ce que sera accompli ce weekend. En plus j'aimerai voir le film de Michael Jackson. Aura-je le temps?

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Date Night : Weekend Edition

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I forgot to take a photo of the journaling on the tag, tucked behind the top part of the photo.

[Supplies: Hambly's Autumn Breeze Antique White Overlay and Brocade Orange/Copper Metallic Paper; Prima and Kaisercraft flowers, Kesi'art brads; Heidi Swapp ghost alpha in pumpkin; American Crafts and Jenni Bowlin alphas; Bazzil kraft and gray cardstock; Tim Holtz Idealolgy trinket; gray tag, mini white tag.]

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A few weekends back Thierry and I got away to a chateau in the Gers thanks to our friends who gifted us this escapade almost one year ago for our fifth wedding anniversary. Thank you friends. The package included dinner and breakfast the following morning.

The first thing we did was drop our bags off in our room. There is something about Scarface-ish bathrooms that happen upon us often:

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We were so giddy with the idea of being away, just the two of us, in the middle of nowhere, that the fact that it was gray and rainy was lost on us. First signs of fall were upon us and it was beautiful. The property boasted an enormous greenhouse with all types of textures and colors to look at :

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There was a wedding that same night. Thierry was hell bent on crashing the party that night but finally we just crashed in our bed. Celebrations inspire me and make me feel happy:

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Our room had a private garden we used as a fridge to cool the bottle cava we received as a gift at our joint birthday party. (Joint party? Yes, in another post.) That's our room with the shutters open:

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(The above photo was washed out so I played with the exposure and curves in Photoshop.)

When it was time for dinner, they sat us in a room where our table had been prepared with a place card that read Monsieur et Madame Thierry Laborde. I love these little details:

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After sleeping in and making plans for the end of year over breakfast, we headed back to Toulouse. Since we didn't have to pick up Andrea and Maximo until the evening, we headed to Vincent and Mariana's house for a visit:

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It was journées du patrimoine . We originally planned to visit historic sites but opted for District 9. Blame the rain:

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The film was surprisingly entertaining. The suspense was such that twice I had a stomach ache. No, it wasn't the popcorn. Or the sour gummies.

Date night is hands down one of my favorite traditions. Rain and all:

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**Edit : Thank you Juancho for proof-reading my post. Corrections noted.

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