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I might just be getting old, but it seems like everywhere I look and everything I hear have gotten incredibly ugly. Where is the beauty in our modern life? Am I the only one noticing this? I think not and I’ll explain. I don’t go to many movies, but I’ve been to two recently. The …
I’ve tried an experiment. I ask people what their favorite season is. Then I ask if their birthday falls in that season. Remarkably, it almost always does. That’s true for me too. I absolutely adore fall. The colors, the cooler weather, orange everything. Fall fabrics make me drool. Well, not really but you get the …
I was surprised to find I’ve never done a St. Patrick’s Day blog. So let’s share a wee bit ‘o history and decorations. St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain, kidnapped by Irish pirates and sold into slavery at age 16. He was forced to tend sheep for his master Milchu, an Irish pagan Druid …
Well, I can wish, can’t I? Here she is, the last of my arch-enemies for 2023. They say mosquitoes are especially bad in So Cal this year because of Hurricane Hillary. I don’t know if that’s true or not. Every year is a bad mosquito year for me. I’m like a mosquito magnet. I’m starting …
Road trips have been all too rare lately, but my friend Betty and I took off for Carpinteria, a small beach town south of Santa Barbara. If I were rich, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy a quaint little 1900s-era house blocks from the Pacific in Carpinteria. In my imagination, there would be nightly walks along …
I remember the good old days when it was easy to find a nearby, quirky, fun store. Collectibles have become passe. People aren’t decorating their homes for holidays as they once did. All my eccentric little stores have fallen by the wayside. Even Barbara Cheatley’s went out of business last year. It seems antique stores …
What inspires you? What makes you want to get off the sofa or abandon electronics? To be honest, the older I get, the better the sofa looks. And yet, I have my moments. There’s nothing like a trip to the quilt show or store to inspire sewing. The fabric junkie in me gets a little …
Well, I did promise a blog about antique finds. I just didn’t know how long it was going to take to write it! So here goes. It’s summer and what says summer better than a sunflower? This one’s a volunteer in the front yard. It doesn’t exactly fit where it grew but what a stunner! …
We’ve been on lockdown here in Southern California for some time. As I mentioned previously, I haven’t been feeling particularly creative. That hasn’t changed. But it’s time to put that mood aside and do a new blog—FINALLY! What to write about? We’ve hardly been anywhere although we do see family and we had almost normal …
Hope you’re finding a way to flourish during this pandemic. I must admit, I’ve found hunkering down is not very conducive to creativity. It would seem the perfect opportunity for days spent in imagination, but that wasn’t the way it worked for me, anyway. So as stores have begun to open, I felt it my …