I have a love-hate relationship with Easter basket grass. Even after switching to the eco-friendly paper kind several years ago, it still gets everywhere. But the candy and eggs just look so naked without it!! I also wanted some to use on the egg tower I’m making. So I decided to make some myself. Given…
Make-shift Joy: How to Make Easter Gifts with What You Have Laying Around the House
Having come of (professional) age during the time when recipes, crafts and such were tested first, published second, I usually do a dry run on anything I publish. Some ideas don’t work. Some require fiddling with a step or two. But as I find myself making Spring and Easter crafts with just the odds and…
Joy in the Face of Disaster
It’s been a while — a long while —- since we’ve posted here. Life sometimes inspires blogging, then sometimes interrupts blogging. Right now, everyone’s life is interrupted. By a rather annoying micro-organism, if we might say so. There is no “normal”, new or not. Accepting any of this — food shortages, government ordered isolation, or…
Coat Crazed: Donate for a Discount at J. Crew
Hello, Sweater Weather! So glad you actually arrived…although your cousin Coat Conditions followed on your heels so quickly that we’re scrambling for outerwear! Okay, yeah, we could drag out the fleece athleticwear pullovers and zip ups. But when confronted with the current crop of coats — from fuzzy faux fur to classic Italian wool —…
Read this and you will never burn your hand on a pot lid again
This may be the best kitchen trick ever.
Pear Tart with Honey Caramel and Goat Cheese
There may be nothing more American than apple pie, but sometimes you have a hankering for a nice pear something-or -other. Especially when presented with a selection of beautiful Seckel pears at the market. Some might find Seckel pears a little small to snack on, but their size (and consistency and flavor) make them perfect…
The Joy of Cooking
The difference between being a chef and a cook has long been debated. Is it that one is male and the other female? (Ha!) Professional versus amateur? Feeding many in a public space versus a relatively few in a private one? Heading a kitchen staff as opposed to being one’s own? That one creates and…
Plum Perfect: Recipes to Say Hello to Fall
If berries mark the opening of summer and peaches the season’s height, the appearance of plums, especially the purple-skinned, yellow-fleshed Italian variety, herald its close and the transition to autumn. No need to mourn (apple season will soon start, pumpkins are on their way to market), but rather savor (and even save) the last of…
What to Do This Weekend: Facing the Storm
For the past 48 hours, there has been no escaping Hurricane Florence. Or at least news, projections and warnings about it: Considerate and concerned preparedness emails from schools and businesses; cable-station weatherpeople trying to mask their excitement as they get top of the hour placement; and yes, the nearly incessant “severe weather warnings” from your…
Poshmark.com: Vintage and Resale Finds at Your Fingertips
If your style runs toward the classic and your pocketbook toward the conservative, you probably already know the joys of the consignment shop. Let others pay full price; you’re good with wearing it next season. But in a season where Alexander Wang is rocking black leather like it was 1979, Michael Kors is pulling trench…
Rooted in Joy 