I created my bucket list for with both mundane & extraordinary things. Read the 101 things that made the list.
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest…
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?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 May 2006, I made my first Etsy purchase; it was two pictures by the very talented working photographer, Jen Causey. I bought them because at the time, I needed…
“Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention…
Once an avid camper, I've become a 4-star hotel connoisseur instead. What does one need to get back into camping?
Sometimes the web can be overwhelming; there’s so many places to share information, to sign up for, to be present in, to update and to follow. Sometimes it’s not enough…
[youtube_video id=”uwIcGIt_HhU”] While I definitly love summer (long days, beach time, bbq’s, travel, warm breezes), autumn truly has my heart. Crisp weather, reason to wear boots with tights, hot apple…
The saying, “you can’t grasp something new if you’re holding onto something old’ has always carried a great deal of weight with me which is why I don’t like to…
I remember this photo of my father’s mother’s family from my childhood tucked away in my father’s boxes of old photos. I always loved it even though I never met…
The way I look at it, I was destined to love film. My father set me up to love stories (every night he’d tell me one – two if I…
One of my oldest and best girlfriends, Emira (who you might know as part of The Boss Ladies), gave birth to her first child today, a baby girl. In honour…
“Even in the cold months of January and February, the Danes are hard to beat – some even seek colder heights in Norway and Sweden for skiing. These dark months…
Growing up I didn’t have access to malls, big supermarkets or mass retailers and so there would be frequent trips into town with my mum. We’d stop at the butcher…
Last fall when my mum came to visit, she fell in-love with one of my skirts which she ended up wearing almost every day. She wore it above to the…
Amish settlements have become a cliché for refusing technology. Tens of thousands of people wear identical, plain, homemade clothing, cultivate their rich fields with horse-drawn machinery, and live in houses…
My parents never subscribed to any magazines while I was growing up and I honestly don’t think I could have told you what one was until I saw my first…
How Often Should I Wash My Dog? I wash mine about once every 3-4 weeks depending on what he’s been up to and I do it in the tub. He’s…
[vimeo_video id=”5583554″] I’ve been receiving a lot of emails and comments over the past couple of months asking where the updates are, if I’m OK, what’s going to be happening…
Photochrom Travel Views of Denmark Then and now photos. Amazing apparently nothing I can’t get enough of Lorissa’s designs and photos and her newly redesigned photoblog is no exception. She’s…
About 1992 I stood in this same spot with not really any more tools; I had ice picker shoes and a backpack but my guide and I were pretty basic…
When Emira came to stay with me we ended up confessing a deep, dark secret each of us carried; we loved the movie Marie Antoinette. Not liked, not thought was…
Gray walls at Door Sixteen. I’ve always loved gray and have always kept my living room in different hues. Now I’m slightly obsessed with yellow and gray! Carpet America Recovery…
Over the past couple of years I’ve developed quite the magazine collection; some were bought for ideas, some were gift subscriptions (best. gifts. ever.) and some I received because I’d…
