Bonjour!

I am Elizabeth, a forty-ish Francophile who adores vintage photo booths, balloons, Björk, peonies, and desserts. I am married to Antz a brilliant artist and together we have a lovely daughter, Liv. Antz and I were born and raised in Los Angeles but we fell in love with Paris after traveling there for vacation. In March 2018, our family followed our longtime dream and moved to Paris, France. Moving abroad was the most stressful, scary and exhilarating thing we ever did but it completely changed our family’s lives for the better and we are now happy Parisian expats.

Here are a few interesting tidbits about me, I won the Showcase Showdown on The Price is Right when I was nineteen years old. I am an only child, our daughter is an only child and my Mom is also an only child yet my husband is the youngest of six children! Sunkissis was my first email address from 1996 and I still use it today.

Spirit Animal: Highland cows and otters I could watch them for hours
Go-to road trip snack: Kettle popcorn and French white chocolate cookies Le Petit Ecolier
Favorite movie: Rosemary’s Baby, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, Midsommar and Marie Antoinette (sorry impossible to just chose one)
Top TV Shows: Game of Thrones (except season 7!) The Twilight Zone, Portlandia, Extras and What We Do in the Shadows
Celebrity crush: Jeff Goldblum (I met him!), Jason Schwartzman, Conan O’Brien (I met him too!) and Waris Ahluwalia ♡
Top Five Favorite Bands/Singers: Björk, A Tribe Called Quest, Tyler the Creator, April March and Fiona Apple
Guilty pleasure: Online shopping, tabloid magazines, playing animal crossing new horizons and attending fancy open houses
Childhood hero: Michael Jackson and my first grade teacher Mrs. Lori Carpenter

Antz and I have been together since nineteen hundred and ninety-six! This handsome, talented artist  loves Thundercats, ice cold milk, making crafts with our daughter, playing Tetris/Dr Mario on his super Nintendo and wants to own a baby donkey. Antz proposed to me after six years of dating on top of the Empire State Building in New York City. We got married on our favorite beach in Malibu on a sunny day in August. We bought our first home, a 1923 California bungalow in hipster Highland Park (Los Angeles) four years after we were married. You can see our house tour that was featured on Apartment Therapy here. Antz was a Senior Art Director for Nickelodeon before we moved to France, now he is a freelance artist/children’s book illustrator and is enjoying working remotely in our Parisian apartment.

I began blogging out of boredom to rant about my life many years ago. Then I became pregnant with our lovely daughter Liv, and the ranting became raving. Being this kid’s Mom is my life’s greatest accomplishment.

Liv is a rad girl who already has a full schedule with modeling, drama class, ballet lessons, roller skating club, playdates with her friends, and playing Minecraft! She is obsessed with making videos for her YouTube channel Liv in Paris and TikTok, watching anime, gaming on her fancy custom PC, loves crafting with her Dad, dressing up in cosplay, collecting rosaries, drinking boba with her friends and reading manga (Japanese comics). She is currently taking Japanese at school, just started streaming on her Twitch channel and she wants to attend language school in Tokyo.
Liv attends a French public school, she’s the tallest kid in her class and she is our official French translator. When Liv was six, she and I worked all summer long to memorize The Animaniac’s Nations of the World song.

We have a grumpy 14 year old cat named Lola that Antz brought from LA to Paris. She enjoys napping, eating and hates wearing hats. 

Currently, I am a stay-at-home Mom/blogger and I enjoy giving walking tours of lovely Paris for friends and family.

These are a some of my favorite hobbies:

Dreaming of buying and renovating a charming, old cottage in the French countryside
Traveling to every country in the EU (we have been. to 25 countries so far)
Hunting Flash Invaders 
Being silly in photo booths
Collecting vinyl records
Brunching on Sunday afternoons
Going on dates to matinee movies with my husband
Playing Pokemon Go with my kid
Customizing Blythe dolls
I have almost 3,000 hours of playing Animal Crossing New Horizons on my Nintendo Switch
Facetime chatting with my Mom and my best friend, Aimee
Swooning over Wes Anderson films
and most importantly, making new friends in Paris.
J’apprends à parler français!

We are so lucky to live this unpredictable, happy life.

Lovely meeting you!

Elizabeth
Please visit me on instagram @sunkissis

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