Spring is here, and despite the fact that I don’t have the spring skirt situation worked out…I do have my spring fragrance situation worked out, because, HELLO! — a change of weather means change of scent, am I right? 🙂
Side note: the black midi skirt I ordered from Gap arrived yesterday, and it 100% made me look like I was part of a cult. Honestly, I think I was blinded by the thought of having pockets… Pockets will do that to ya!
I’m returning it ASAP.
Back to the perfume… It’s called Chanel Paris Riviera Eau du Toilette, and OOOH! — it smells so good. If you’re a fiend for fresh citrus scents, I think you’d love it. It starts off bright and borderline sharp with bold, orange notes. Like, if you were walking through a sun-dappled grove of orange trees and picked one off a branch and peeled it right then and there, that’s what a spritz first smells like.
Then, it transforms into a floral with orange blossom and jasmine notes before drying down into warm, sandalwood and vanilla notes. It’s light, fresh and clean, which I wanted because in the spring I don’t really like to wear anything too heavy, you know what I mean?
I love it and have been wearing it nonstop.
In other news…is it just me, or did Easter sneak up on us?! I usually like to plan my Easter menu way in advance, but this year I think I’m going to keep it simple with a premade honey ham, biscuits (I might just buy the premade kind) and roasted vegetables (asparagus, broccoli and baby potatoes). Or, I may just buy a couple of Whole Foods Frozen Cheese Pizzas and call it a day, ha ha ha! We’ll see.
I’m prepping some Easter eggs for the egg hunt at Connor’s preschool, and this got me thinking about Easter egg hunts when I was a kid. El Hub and I were chatting a while back and he was absolutely shocked when I told him that, when my brother and I were young, we always had Easter egg hunts inside our tiny little house. You could also pretty much guarantee that the eggs would always be hidden in the same places year after year, like, there were always some tucked away in the piano and behind my mom’s knick-knacks in the living room.
Because of this, I always just assumed that every family held their egg hunts the same way. I had NO IDEA some families went outside on Easter morning to hunt for eggs.
I don’t know… Did anybody else’s family do the indoor egg hunt?!
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
That fragrance sounds lovely! Were you able to purchase that in a store or only online? I know Chanel has more fragrances but I never see these ones available to sample.
This one is online. I suspect it’s also in some stores but I haven’t been inside one for long enough to check! It’s very pretty and so light and refreshing!
Mom just straight up gave me a basket with the goods in it. I remember one outdoor Easter egg hunt and it was WAY too stressful for me; I got anxious easily as a kid. Knowing where our parents came from, I suspect that your family might have done indoor hunts to protect the goods from outside forces.
Only one mid-length skirt ever worked for me (I’m 4’11”, 86 lbs). It was a batik wrap-around. Somehow the A-line shape worked and it was a beautiful bright lavender pattern. Any other drape of mid-length skirt would just not look proportionally flattering.
Happy Prince Kuhio Day! These state holidays are the bomb. I love having two 4-day work weeks in a row! Chee!
I was in Hawaii once for Prince Kuhio Day! I hope you’re having a good one!
Now that I think about it, maybe my parents did it because they didn’t really do outdoor things? LOL.
You’re right about Easter – it really did sneak up on us! I don’t remember Easter Egg Hunts when I was a kid but we still do them for the boys (the plastic eggs with candy inside) and they STILL have fun looking for them. Like your parents, we’re pretty predictable with where we hide them. We’re also slightly afraid we’ll forget where we’ve put them all and find one tucked behind a bookcase months later. HAHA!
As a kid, we would always do egg rolling contests (and still do this). It’s like a demolition derby. You choose your colored, hard-boiled egg and take turns rolling the eggs down a ramp (made of 2 broom handles, no broom, that are leaning up against a coffee table), seeing if you can hit any of the eggs that rolled before you. We set up a pillow “bumper” across the room so the eggs don’t break on anything… except someone else’s egg. The winner is the last egg standing (with the fewest cracks). My father-in-law thought we were crazy the first time he saw this. Now we usually send him a video. 🙂
I have to ask, what happens after all the eggs are rolled? Do you guys end up making time into a massive egg salad?
Yes! It’s like rainbow egg salad because, you know how the dye stains the egg whites. We only have one egg each (6 of us) so it’s not too many sandwiches. 🙂
I like a soft fabric, dark colored maxi too. I’m 5’4” We totally did the indoor hunt growing up, my dad loved to hide things in a lamp, the fridge…. he was sneaky!
We did indoor Easter Egg hunts because A) half the time in Notthern Michigan it was still snowy at Easter and B) my parents live in the middle of the woods on a big plot.
I *love* Easter due to the lifelong love of bunnies and chocolate but I can never convince my husband that we should do Easter baskets. When Quincy was still around (RIP, buddy) he got extra attention for the day.