Winter Sales in Florence

Sales Saldi Soldes The winter sales are back in Florence, they started on January 4th and will last for 60 days. Remember, Italy has sales twice a year, winter and summer. I tend to prefer

Happy Holidays 2013 - Trip Home

Happy Holidays 2013

Happy New Year Candy cane photo, no more! ha ha. Before you all kill me for having the same candy cane photo up for way too many weeks, we’re back and ready for business. Hope

Candy Canes in Florence, Italy

Candy Canes in Florence

Candy Canes If you’re in Italy and craving some peppermint goodness, here is what I just spotted at the Caffè Pasticceria Serafini on Via Gioberti 168r (closer to the Piazza Beccaria end of the street).

Long Lasting Eye and Lip Makeup Tips

Long Lasting Eye and Lip Makeup

Photo taken by Davide Plaisant Makeup Staying Power This photo was taken five hours after applying my makeup with no reapplication, the only area that faded was my nose where I did not follow these

Halloween Florence 2013

Happy Disney Halloween 2013

Halloween Party Bust How did we spend our Halloween 2013… uh, at the supermarket? ha ha. Okay, so originally, we tried to go to the Ludoteca Il Castoro’s Halloween party, but it was packed full

Mini Toy Shopping Cart at Upim

Mini Toy Shopping Cart Fun

Christmas Gift Idea We were shopping around for socks and tights yesterday, when Julienne spotted this miniature toy shopping cart and decided it was the coolest-thing-ever-in-the-whole-wide-world! I think we were in Upim playing with this

Sleeping Julienne with her stuffed animals

Julienne sleeping at last

let sleeping julienne lie When Julienne is sick, her sleep can get totally thrown off…she may wake up in the middle of the night crying and upset for hours! Like last night, when she had