This book is the perfect gift for the jewelry lovers in your life..The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry by Francesca Cartier Brickell. From the jeweler’s humble beginning to becoming a global luxury brand, this story tells it all….

A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash. . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist

The captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives

“Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal

The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry.

Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more.

The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family. – Amazon.com


For more information or to purchase this book click HERE.

I was going to post this gift guide for him over the weekend but I received a bunch of emails asking me to post it before Thanksgiving!!!!!  Everyone thinks that men are the hardest to shop for….I think I have found some amazing things that will make all the men on your list very happy this holiday season!!!!!

My son is obsessed with Hot Sauce…I love this gift set!!!!

This BBQ cleaner is genus and would make a great stocking stuffer too!!!!!

Get ready for lots of laughs!!!!

Jack Black is always a favorite gift!!!!!

And another one!!!!!

These Amazon cashmere sweaters are the BEST

These lounge pants get the best reviews…2 people on my list are getting these!!!!!

My son and husband make omelets every weekend..this is definitely going under the tree for them!!!!!

Perfect for the business traveler!!!!!

This shoe shine kit is a must have for dads, uncles, brothers!!!

This is also another fabulous shoe shine kit…I love the leather case!!!

This is my husbands favorite pillow..He cannot sleep without it!!!! He is on his second!!!!!

This deep muscle massage gun I hear is a must for dad, actually everyone in the family!!!

This Week’s Book Club Monday is another Reese Witherspoon book club pick, The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes (the author of the BEST book, Me Before You).  Trust me you NEED to read this now because it is soon to be a major motion picture…here is the story….

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England.  But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.

The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. 

What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.

Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond. 

For more information or to purchase this book, click HERE.

I love when bloggers post their “empties”, or the things that they have used that month and liked so much they will be ordering them again.  I decided to do my own “empties”. I looked around my house and checked my past orders and here are the items that I seem to order over and over again.  I am excited to share them with you.  

This detergent takes stains out of everything…clothing, rugs!!! I go through bottles!!!!


My friend introduced me to these protein bars…everyone in my house is obsessed!!!!!


This root touch up is the best for in between color days!!!!


I first bought this M Magic Cover Cream in San Francisco…it is amazing…it also comes in 3 shades


I refresh all my clothes with this spray…..all wrinkles disappear


I love these towels


I have these lighters all over my house…they are rechargeable…..


The best self tanner that I found in Paris!!!!


A reader sent this recommendation to me a year ago..I now use this cleanser once or twice a week, esp in the winter months!!!!


This is the BEST eye makeup remover!!


I love this setting spray..I also bring it with me when traveling to help with skin dehydration…

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