How I create a hygge winter and christmas based on traditional Danish Christmases with my own twists and decor since moving to America.
I love watching Christmas movies every year, even if they aren't traditional holiday films. Here are a few of my favourites for a hygge holiday.
I created my bucket list for with both mundane & extraordinary things. Read the 101 things that made the list.
Hygge isn't what's shown in glossy magazines or top 10 lists and it's not what's sold in stores. This is what real hygge is and looks like.
The past few years I’ve struggled with writing. Between being busy, burned out or (recently) immobile, I just haven’t found the mojo to write. Because I don’t blog for a…
As someone who is a workaholic and always on the go, go, go, I realise that rest for my body, mind & soul is really important. Could dedicating a day off be the answer? Or even possible?
A visit to the life-long home of one of my favourite authors and inspirations, Karen Blixen. Her charming, cosy home in Denmark from which she wrote Out Of Africa is beautiful both inside & out. Read more about her and see her home.
Please go out there and do. Live. Don’t be the same as yesterday. Don’t live vicariously online. Don’t use language that has no meaning or talk ideas you don’t really…
Petersham Nurseries is one of those must visit magical places but seems to be a secret. I’ve taken someone who lived in Richmond, UK to it and didn’t know it…
Hygge isn't something that can be bought - it's something that you feel. So if you don't feel hygge, you probably aren't using the word right. Here's how one out of touch hygge girl got back into it.
As an avid traveller who clocks a lot of inflight miles a year, I've come to learn what suitcases, organizers and gear really works. Here are my tried and true favourites.
My childhood homes all had wallpaper but my adult homes? Never. It’s not because I had a bad 80’s experience with floral print but because I either moved a lot or…
As a true vegabond I've never lived long in any one place with one exception: two years in Santa Barbara California. Now as a favourite weekend getaway, I share some of my favourite places to stay, shop, eat & see.
Whether you have a dedicated guest room or turning a corner in your studio into one, here are some tried + true tips to creating a hygge space for guests.
With a fairy-believing young guest coming in a few weeks, I'm looking for ideas on how to turn my garden into a believable fairy garden.
Finally, a house that feels like home.
I think the only (spring) food that Danes like more than their new potatoes are perhaps Asparges (asparagus). After a long, cold, winter the spring is welcomed with everything asparagus;…
It’s no secret that Santa Monica, California is one of my favourite cities in the world. And although I might move away from time to time for work, I always…
When I explain why I love Santa Monica and have called in home since 2005, outsiders (especially those just as weary of LA as I used to be) listen with…
For my birthday I decided to go back to one of my favourite places in France: The Loire Valley.
Determined to keep everything to carry-on, I've learned a lot about what does and doesn't work for travelling. Here are my some of my tips on Packing for winter travel.
Despite having a lot of friends in the city and it being ripe with job opportunities for the type of work I do, I've never wanted to actually live here. But that all changed when I moved here in July 2014.
With a little thanks to the Gilmore Girls whose reading lists were putting me to shame, I decided it was time to get back into the reading habit. Here's what made my book list for November.
I wasn’t entirely clear what the change was that needed to happen to help me fall in-love again with this space and online sharing in general.
For a city I had never had the desire to visit, I came away from Amsterdam completely smitten.
In 2009, I got offered a dream gig for one of my favourite companies in a city that I had always dreamed about visiting – Philadelphia. Despite not knowing anything…
If a city could feel both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time to me, it would be Copenhagen. I know the city so well from so much time spent…
Next week I am headed home to Denmark and, as I do with every trip, began planning about a week ago to make sure I have the right gear and…
A 1928 cottage by the sea, aptly called, "Dream Cottage" that's one block from the beach, with two large and private yards, a fireplace and white, white walls. The perfect home for me in San Diego.
Sometimes one just needs to run away. From normalcy, media, cell phone bars, people, routine and all the parts about being a grown-up that make you wish you weren't one.
Years ago I met a fabulously wealthy woman who could easily buy couture for just everyday wear. And the way in which she was always impeccably dressed with the most…
In 1904, a man named Abbott Kinney came from the east in search of a better climate to help his health. He found Venice California, fell in-love, and decided to…
