Hello dear friends! Finally returned from a nice vacation and now back to blogging again. Mon cheri et moi went to visit our best friends who live in Salt Lake City, UT. We took our nieces with us on this road trip and stopped by in Las Vegas. It was a nice relaxing and wonderful trip overall, but it's always good to be back in the swing of things.
Here we are at the Bellagio in Las Vegas
Here we are at the Bellagio in Las Vegas
This is a display cake at the patisserie inside the Bellagio. The Grinch is made of 100 lbs of fondant, and 100 lbs of chocolate. It took them two months to make this incredible display.
This is our view from our hotel room. We stayed at the Loews Hotel in Lake Las Vegas.
This one is my shot of downtown Park City, Utah. It was not snowing at all.
It doesn't get any better than this, acting like little kids with my best friend.
We got to taste a different kind of coffee brewing called "siphon" coffee.
And got to visit this beautiful pastry shop in SLC inside the Grand America hotel.
Their boxes, displays and pastries reminded me of "Laduree".
Celebrated New Year's eve in Las Vegas and got to watch the fireworks.
New Year means new projects. I painted and reupholstered these pair of Louis chairs, covered them with linen and burlap.
Speaking of burlap, for Christmas, I purchased six pairs of Tom's shoes and gave them out as presents. Of course, I bought a pair of "burlap" shoes for moi et mon cheri.
Lastly, New Year also means new listings in my online etsy shop. Come check out this wonderful vintage blue manual typewriter. It's really a great find!
Happy New Year everyone! I have a feeling this year will be amazing!
10 comments:
Happy New Year Marie!! :)
Welcome back. Looks like you had a great time. Love those chairs.
Welcome back Marie,glad you had a good time. I wouldn't mind a slice of that cake,(the 100lb chocolate bit) please. Love the chairs. xx jeanetteann
Wow, you sure know how to celebrate the New Year in Style! Your chairs look FAB and all the best for 2012!!!
Happy New Year, Marie! What a wonderful Christmas holiday you had with your nieces. We spent Christmas in Beaver Creek, CO and we did not have as much snow as in the years past....
Great photos, and I had never heard of siphon coffee before your post. Did you like it? I love coffee!!!
Your burlap-covered chairs are so pretty.
I hope you have a fantastic 2012, my friend!
xoxoxoxo,
Ricki Jill
Hi Marie~` Love the chairs you did a great job. They are so lovely. Looks like you had a great vacation. I am going to go check out your Etsy shop.
Have a great day and welcome back!
~CHeryl
Welcome back Pretty Lady!! Happy New Year!!!
It was so wonderful to see your comment on my HHL blog (I'm slowly merging both blogs into one (for now)... it's too exhausting trying to keep up with to blogs).
Looks like you had an amazing road trip!! and how wonderful that your nieces were able to join you.It's always wonderful to see things through the eyes of a younger generation. That Grinch cake ... wow .. and chocolate!!
I'm now following you via my HHL, so I don't miss any of your wonderful posts. I'm to check out your ETSY shop ... that is a great typewriter.
Happy New Year mon ami, xo HHL
Happy New Year Marie!!!! It looks like you had an amazing time and how fun to go sledding!!! :) I hope that this year brings you much love and beautiful things and experiences.
Have a wonderful week!!
xoxoxo
Everything looks wonderful (especially those chairs)! BTW....I wanted to invite you to stop by my blog. We are having an "impossibility" challenge for 2012!
It's not nice to know that you've been so close and didn't even stopped to say hello lol! I live so close to SLC we could've met Marie. Well the important thing is that you had a great vacation, and spent some time with your family, you guys look so happy. Wishing you the best for this new year!
XXX Ido
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