top: 2px; padding-right: 5px; font-family: times;”>When I moved to Paris in late 1997, starting nearly a decade living overseas, my husband “The Big Guy” and I brought only our clothes and photos and books and music and some treasured personal items; TBG’s employers’ corporate policy was no furniture or big items could be moved, we’d buy what we needed once we arrived. So all our belongings from a huge 4 bedroom suburban home and 22 years of marriage, children, careers, pets and life had to be sorted, catalogued, and stored. And the things we were selecting to travel with us had to be carefully selected and itemized and packaged for air shipment…meaning weight counts!
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For 7 years living in Paris I scrounged the brocantes, puces, vide greniers, salons and boutiques antiquare, but never found the perfect chic little porte-cigarette: too expensive, too large, too small, too fussy, too plain; always close, but never just right. Then we moved to Copenhagen, another transfer with TBG’s job, and voila, I finally found what I was looking for – of course as I was no longer living in Paris so I was no longer looking for it!
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TBG and I spent a week’s vacance in Skagen, a charming fishing village known for the many artists who made their homes here especially during the summer months, enjoying the picturesque towns, the hiking and biking, the gorgeous beaches, and water water water everywhere.
As we were driving into Skagen, TBG and I had already stopped and visited several Nordic antiques shops and purchased a set of silver and a set of crystal drink coolers/stirrers. These coolers are stored in the freezer, and when a drink is served, use these stirrers in the glass to keep the drink cold…and to make your drink look tres chic!
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Bonne Courses!
la Reine
Another Diva-Worthy Idea!
Need an evening bag for a night out? La Reine has a gorgeous, quilted, white Chanel sunglass case, which perfectly holds not only her sunglasses, but also her lip gloss, a credit card, mints, keys and a few dollars; this makes a tres ch
ic little evening bag and doesn’t sag The Big Guys’s pockets!
loved this post!
if i had jeans like the ones you described i'd be wearing them every day!
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Great Post!! When we moved to Europe we had an allowance of 2,000 lbs…not much with 2 little children and one on the way–but the shopping and hunting was fun. And we quickly adopted a European (Spanish) way of life!
Thanks for the post!
Great post and loved the thought of you using a cigarette case to store your personal metro tickets and things. What a great purchase and glad you found this.
Enjoy your week
Hugs
Carolyn
Great post! I love the idea of using a cigarette case as a sort of mini-clutch. Tres chic!