This holiday weekend seemed both relaxing and also to have flown by, if that’s possible?


Friday we avoided the Black Friday shopping crowds altogether and escaped to the beautiful Getty Museum (if you live in the Los Angeles area and haven’t been, I highly recommend it – it’s equal parts gallery and secret garden atop the city).  Seemingly overnight, Thanksgiving is a thing of the past and main streets, malls and palm trees are all in the holiday spirit.  Despite the lack of really wintery weather, I want to slow down enough to fully take in my first Christmas in California.

p.s.  The boy and I signed a lease on a townhouse that will be ours as of December 1 – and I am already dreaming up a million decorating ideas, so you can count on me posting lots of before and afters as we go!