The PINK Days of Summer!!

Hello Friends!     Welcome White Wednesday partiers! This post is a little to the pink side of white ;)
I can't believe how summer has just flown right by!!
There's still so much more relaxing and fun-having to be done!
Still more pink lemonade drinking, strawberry ice cream eating...
Let's call these last days of August the pink days of summer:   Don't forget the SPF30!     And the Dramamine :)      This COULD have been me:   Soooo cute!     I want to go there now! 
Pretty towels...

Mmmmm....

Relaxing...  

Pink lemonade drinking...

And a beautiful sunset...sigh

OK, yes, these are all from my pinterest board ;)

I hope you all enjoy your last pink days of summer!!

And a freebie:

Click to enlarge, right click and save!

Lots of links to lovely whites at Faded Charm Cottage!

Thanks so much for visiting, and have a great week!

Be Careful What You Wish For

A few weeks back I was whining about how summer in Southern California had been pretty much a no show, with it's gray, gloomy skies and cool nights. Well. Enter SUMMER with blazing hot temps in the 90s!! However, it did bring warm summer nights with it, so I'm not really complaining. But now we are headed up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming tomorrow. The kids are meeting us there and we will celebrate a "big" birthday for my DH. We plan to visit the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, but it could be dicey--showers and thunderstorms are predicted for the whole time we are there. And the temperatures range from
the 30s to the 50s/60s. Yikes! How does one pack?

I did find some fun things for "thrift store Thursday"
that I'll post when I get back.
But I wanted to leave you with this little Friday freebie:


Have a great summer weekend!

Friday Freebie

Here's your Friday freebie:


Right click, save, and enjoy!
Have a great weekend!!

Postcards from Hawaii

Well. Southern California has had subpar weather for summer so far.
Gray gloomy mornings.
A little too cool to stay outside after 7 p.m.
without a sweater or light jacket.
This won't do.

I want summer! I want warm summer nights!

I know a place where it's always summer!


I don't surf, but if I did, I'd want to have one of these pretty surfboards handpainted by North Oahu artist Ron Artis.

Every day when we returned to our room
there was new towel origami waiting for us!

We had a great time just kicking it on the Big Island.




Love, love, love tiki torches!!

And sunsets!

And tropical drinks!
Aloha!

Merrily, merrily

This is the perfect picture to go with one of my favorite quotes:

"Live your life like a stroll on the beach...
As close to the edge as you can go."

Right click, save, and enjoy!

Ocean Beach

Yesterday was a gloriously beautiful sunny day, and I headed down to Ocean Beach, with its shell shops, antique malls, and cute little boutiques to see what I could find for my vintage vacation swap partner.


I don't even know who my partner is yet, but I have a theme in mind, and I'm the kind of girl who takes a theme and runs with it! Well, I do not know how Vignettes--a fabulous shoppe stocked (a truly gauche term for the beautiful vignettes created by the various designer/dealers) with all manner of things vintage, French, shabby, sparkly, flowery, bejewelled--could have escaped my radar for so long!!


There are rooms and rooms of wonderful antique, vintage and handmade items, you can just breathe in the inspiration!

Regardez-vous:




I took the pics with my iPhone, so they don't really do justice to the soft vintage beauty of this shoppe. Can't wait to go back!!
And yes, I did find a little something for my swap partner! ;)