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…