I’ve been admiring gorgeous photos of macarons all over the blogosphere for months but I have yet to try one. This adorable chart has just sent me over the edge, I have to find some this week! I’m trying not to get too excited about them, I don’t want to build them up so much that I end up disappointed. But really, something this pretty just has to be delicious, right? I’m thinking some pretty macarons displayed on the champagne table would be delightfully Marie Antoinette for our summer parties!
Does anyone know where in the Boston area I can get my grabby little hands on some of these colorful treats?
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We will be doing a bit of entertaining this summer and I not so secretly wish for all our gatherings to look exactly like the above photo! I want to be the girl in the pretty chiffon dress, leaning on a tree happily watching her friends having a crazy good time, cute champagne coupe by her side. I remember finding my parents square bottom champagne saucers in the glassware cabinet, and thinking about all the fancy parties I would have when I grew up with glasses exactly like those. Unfortunately glasses like those became harder and harder to find as the champagne world began to favor the flute, but in the past few years coupes have been staging a slow resurgence. I would love to add one of these styles to our barware collection!
Calvin Klein Alto Champagne Saucer, JL Coquet Pythagore Champagne Saucer are lovely modern adaptations.
Theresienthal Pure Champagne Coupe, Waterford Marc Jacobs David Champagne Saucer , Waterford Marc Jacobs Colette Champagne Saucer, are gorgeous, classic choices.
I think I am most partial to the Giarimi Design Feast Champagne Coupe, I love the shape and the slight tints add such a romantic touch! What do you think dear readers, any favorites? Are you fans of the flute or lovers of the coupe like myself? Have you found any cute saucers to sip from lately, do tell!
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Happy Friday everyone!! Any fabulous and exciting plans? Husband and I are continuing the anniversary fun with re-enactments of some favorite meals from our San Francisco honeymoon (spoiler: it involved a lot of delicious sushi). You know how sometimes you ask your grandparents why they do something a certain way and it has been so long that they have completely forgotten how it all started so they just say “I don’t know, we’ve always done it this way“? I wonder if as the years go by we will forget how all our little traditions started and say they same to our grandkids. I hope not. I hope I’m able to tell them how after a long flight to our honeymoon, on which a little boy had peed himself thus smelling up the entire plane , grandma and grandpa were too tired and cranky to find a place for dinner and therefore raided the minibar. And that’s how we started Pringles and Heineken night. Or how we found the best sushi place in the world (Sushi Ran in Mill Valley) by getting lost and in desperation typing sushi into the navigation system and driving to the one with the best name. Do you have any silly little traditions like this with your husband/boyfriend/family/friends?
I’ll leave you this week with an anniversary appropriate pair of cocktails:
Golden Groom and Blushing Bride
Recipe here and here
Images via strangemaps and marthastewart
Since today the husband and I celebrate our anniversary, and therefore I have weddings on my mind, I thought I would share this gorgeous and quirky wedding/engagement band with you. It is hard to tell in the photos but it says “marry me” in beautiful script. Total genius! Designed by Solange Azagury-Partridge this ring truly speaks for itself! Available here. What do you think, would you love to receive this ring, or is it a bit too cheeky for your taste?
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Happy Anniversary Husband!
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