I sliced the packing tape along the joins of the box flaps and opened them wide, picked up the thoughtful card resting at the top, thanking me for my order.
Read MoreI love how fall lets you start again. Start baking bread, start making soup. Start a new knitting project. Start what feels like a slower pace, an amble toward hibernation.
Read MoreIn early morning, I pull the summer’s weeds while redirecting a particularly bitey puppy.
Read MoreLittle Miss Mae. Maggie Mae, to be precise.
Read MoreSince mid July, there’s been wave upon wave of brilliant orange and red. The poppies just won’t stop.
Read MoreI’ve gone and ordered a potted white cyclamen. Two, to be exact, with ruffled edges, I requested, if they could possibly be found.
Read MoreIn your pencil-to-paper moments of late, when you're marking down ideas of things for gifting and things for receiving, when you're listing what, exactly, you might welcome into your life and lifestyle this holiday season, have you ever thought of including the word home?
Read MoreI've ordered more teaspoons. In fact, I ordered all I could find in our silverplate pattern. Because, somehow, the disappearing teaspoon situation is still a situation.
Read MoreIt wasn’t until yesterday that I took my own advice, when, in the muddle of a full work day, I began my fall home edit
Read MoreIn the small, quiet bedroom nestled under a seven foot, beaded plank ceiling at the back of the house, there’s a bed on one wall, with nightstands carved out of flanking floor-to-ceiling cabinetry.
Read MorePerhaps you’ll dive right in and begin with the contents of an entire room. Maybe you’ll edit your shoe collection. Or, in the tiniest of baby steps, you’ll begin with your pencil cup.
Read MoreSince early spring, I’ve been wanting to show you this. How the wild violas have found a place between the flagstones on the terrace.
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