Thank You BOYE Knitting Needle and Crochet Hook Company for featuring my beach house bath mat on your facebook page! Here’s what they said… “We love this bath mat Melissa knitted with our needles. Doesn’t it look like it belongs on the pages of a shelter magazine or pricey catalog? Well done!” BOYE NEEDLE COMPANY…
Date Night with Jeff~Another Fabulous Dinner at The Port
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For date night this week we had planned on going to listen to live music at Jimmy’s Pub, a beautiful place located at the top of the St. James Hotel. It’s a great place to relax on a Friday or Saturday evening with a nice glass of wine and delicious, unique appetizers. But, silly us…
Six Senses Saturday
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Back by popular demand! hee hee…Six Senses Saturday… ~Seeing~ The Darjeeling Limited watch the trailer HERE Have you ever seen this movie? It’s one of my favorite “visually stunning” flicks. I like the really pretty, armchair travel, colorful movies this time of year when the sun refuses to show her face and when the landscape…
beach house bath mat
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photograph by Melissa Placzek “You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach” ~ Anonymous After seeing a bath mat that my friend Mary Parks knitted, I decided our clawfoot tub needed a little embellishing. She used a fancier pattern than mine, which I love when a piece…
Bouillabaisse
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“Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there…
Current Crush~ Esther Horchner’s Naked Ladies Teacups & Teapots
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I’m TOTALLY ordering these! See Esther’s gorgeous site HERE… X and O, Melissa
Inspiration by Dana Stenholtz
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Dana Stenholtz I would like to welcome Dana Stenholtz, one of my best friends and one of my favorite writers, back to ChinDeep! I asked her if she would please put a little artist’s bio together and this is what she had to say… Inspiration I am Dana Beth Stenholtz, and I am a writer.…
Date Day with Jeff~Breakfast & Coffee at Caribou
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So, how many of you have tried the new breakfast sandwiches and oatmeal at Caribou? We got around to trying these breakfast offerings this past week on a date day outing, and thought they were pretty darn good. We both tried the Chicken Apple Sausage Daybreaker… Chicken Apple Sausage Daybreaker: Apple-seasoned chicken sausage and eggs…
The Mysteries of Tea~Keemun
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photograph by Melissa Placzek Hello friends! I’ve decided to try something new. On Tuesdays I’ll be talking about all things tea! “Tea & Conversation” was the name of my newsletter when Chin Deep in Bubbles was first published, and I thought it would be fun to breathe life into the newsletter again. Are you ready…
Art As Heirloom
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Today Gracie had the day off from school and we decided to work on crafts. As we perused the shelves of my craft closet she didn’t seem very enthused. I showed her fabrics, and yarns and little looms….no, no, no… “How about embroidery?” I asked. “What’s that?” she replied. So I showed her a book…