i hope y’all get in some quality fun in the sun. have a great weekend, and i’ll see you back on monday! also,  so very sorry for the site outtage today!! glad to be back up and running!! [ photo courtesy of Dennis&Grace via the sfgirlbybay flickr pool. ]  
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thanks so much to Nicole of the blog Kirei Nest for including me in her round up of locale lovelies – some great gift ideas for out of town guests. take a look at her locale lovelies posts for some fun san francisco gift bag ideas, as well as some great gift bag ideas from other bloggers around the country!  
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i just stumbled upon this great etsy shop and can’t believe how genius this is! purpose design puts together these attractive, and really practical spice kits in sweet little magnetic tins, and ships them out to you in tubes! they will customize the spice kits based on your very own flavor palette, too. from yummy indian to moroccan, to savory salts, you can pick and... 
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I’ve been traveling. Traveling north. Learning about salmon.The absolute hands-down highlight of my trip was a morning spent on the Myrmidon, a bright blue, neat-as-a-pin, fiberglass bow-picker salmon gill-netting boat out of Cordova, Alaska. To know how awesome it is and know why I wanted to share it with you, dear sfgirlbybay readers, you need to understand that Cordova... 
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good morning!  it’s me, mrs. french…I have missed our time together.  I wasn’t able to pop in last week because my family and I were visiting beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Grand Teton National Park.  One of the most beautiful places I have ever been…North America’s National Parks are one of our continent’s most magical gifts.  I... 
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