This summer, I ran across this great little shop near La Jolla, California. They had some silver sea shells for sale (try saying that a few times fast!) and I decided to go home and try it out myself.
I just used metallic silver spray paint and some flat rhinestones and pearls from the scrapbook section at Michael’s. I think they would also look good with just a couple of them mixed in with some white shells. Cute, right?
My husband and I just returned from a vacation in a little slice of paradise…..Hawaii. Oahu, to be exact. It was our first time to visit Hawaii and it was stunning! When we left home, it was 4 degrees and we had 3 inches of snow and sleet on the ground. And some 8 hours…
In this post: What is Tangi? An introduction and my review. Have you ever stood at the counter of a chocolatier and couldn’t make up your mind? The dark chocolate truffles look good, but so do the turtles and the toffees and the chocolate mints! What you really want is a little bite of everything:)…
We’ve all been there. Things are chugging right along and then suddenly, life throws a curveball. This is where I’ve been over the past couple of weeks. The world outside may look like Spring, but my life has felt like Winter. I recently wrote a post with a brief description of my son and…
My house has been in a state of change for the past year. We undertook a major remodel and right after it ended, Christmas came. Now we are in the process of trying to put all the things back where they belong, reorganize the entire house, and finish the rest of the painting projects from…
Do the words “easy + bread + recipe” sound like an oxymoron to you? When I was younger, my mother used to make homemade wheat bread and cinnamon rolls. She had a wheat mill and would grind organic wheat berries into flour and then use a Bosch machine to make the most delicious homemade wheat…
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ? Well, maybe not, but these shortbread thumbprint cookies are so delicious that you are going to want more than one! If you’ve arrived here at the French Blue Cottage because of “Cookie Week”, let me first say, “Welcome! I’m glad you came for a visit!”…
