Europe to Celebrate and the Christmas Book is out!

Rome

Venice

Bologna

Rimini on the Adriatic Sea

San Marino

A blurry but gorgeous Budapest

Nightfall in Zagreb

Hello friends!

I just returned from a wonderful

trip celebrating our 25th anniversary!

Had such a wonderful time seeing old friends

who live abroad and meeting new ones too.

We were gone for two weeks

and visited Italy, San Marino, 

Croatia, and Hungary.

Oh my heavens --- so much 

gorgeous architecture and history...

I am still on a high from all the visual inspiration.

Ok, now on to the next subject....

B  I  G    N  E  W  S 

While I was gone,

my friend and fellow blogger

artist/designer/writer/photographer --

the super talented

Jen Rizzo

unveiled her holiday book

Creatively Christmas!

Last December

 you may remember 

 that I mentioned that someone came by

 and had spent the day shooting our holiday decor

here at the Polohouse

but --- 

it was a secret 

so I was not allowed 

to share who it was at that time.

It was mega-blogger Jen Rizzo!

Jen in action last December. 

She featured our home in her new book,

and since I was out of the country 

when the book came out

I have YET TO SEE IT!

(I missed her unveiling party too. So sad about that, Jen!)

So I am popping in my car 

this morning

to go  buy a copy of the book

which is available at:

Barnes and Noble

Costco

Amazon

and shops and boutiques

listed in detail on Jen's blog.

Link here

(I did get to see the proofs online

but I cannot wait to see it in hard copy.)

Congrats to Jen for this huge 

and amazing accomplishment!

So thrilled for you. 

Will post tomorrow with photos 

and more on this. 

Ok, I am off to the book store.

Ciao!

xoxox~

Alison
:) 

UPDATE: I am unable to get my hands
on a copy of the book! Cannot find it anywhere!
Hoping to get a copy on Saturday from Jen Rizzo
so until then --- stay tuned! :)

Here's to the next 25 years, honey!    :)

Rome at night