Tag: beauty
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Rosenborg Castle and the Crown Jewels
One of our excursions was to the Rosenborg Castle, which was right across the street from the botanical gardens and only a few blocks from our hotel. Rick Steves had rated this attraction pretty high, and I was interested in seeing the crown jewels! So we took our cameras and headed out to the castle…
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Los Rodriguez Mansion: Ready for Christmas!
So now that we’ve seen the Nutcracker and watched a few Christmas movies, Javi and I are feeling properly Christmasy and into the season. We decorated the house the week after Thanksgiving this year, but I haven’t had a chance to thoroughly clean the house yet to take photos. Most of our decorations are much…
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Aunt Melissa’s Art
Growing up with Melissa as an aunt was a blast for me and my cousin Heather. Melissa loved to play dress up with us and let us raid her collection of awesome vintage outfits (of course to us at the time “vintage” wasn’t even on our radar; we just wanted to look like princesses, obviously).…
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Visiting Leadville, CO
On day 1 of our belated honeymoon, Javi and I woke up at 7:30 and had coffee and a homemade breakfast that our B&B host Connie prepared. One of the items in the breakfast buffet was a warm loaf of craisin applesauce bread that I instantly fell in love with. It seemed homemade so I…
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Windowsill Collection
Last week in the mail Javi and I got a really cool gift from my uncle Warren. Warren is a high school chemistry and earth sciences teacher and has been collecting rocks, minerals, fossils, sharks teeth – you name it – for as long as I can remember. His collection is AMAZING and he’s won…
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