Five things I watched this week, plus my tree, which has arrived and is looking fine naked Good morning, friends. I was laughing to myself as I scrolled through the last month of posts and my calendar. It is a mishmash of pumpkin, cranberry, Thanksgiving and Christmas, with a smidgen of Halloween, sprinkled with holiday…
Trunk or Treat, a New York collector’s apartment, Kaffe Fassett, Farrow and Ball color stories, Harris Tweed, and Scottish cashmere Good morning, friends. Happy Halloween. I will admit this is not my favorite holiday, and I think I know why. Growing up, the scariest thing in the neighborhood was an ethereal ghost made from a…
A Victorian villa in Brixton, Betty Soldi’s Florence studio, Judi Dench, a hidden Monet collection, and the beauty hiding inside an ordinary week Good morning, friends. I have been thinking about Instagram this week. When you scroll through, everyone else’s life looks glamorous and exciting and basically magazine-worthy. Some of those lives are real. Not…
Dries Van Noten on collecting, Will Fisher’s Camberwell home, Mel Campion’s shell studio in Anglesey, and permission to put the tree up whenever you want Good morning, friends. I scrolled through Instagram this week and realized I am not the only one who has been called a nut for wanting the tree up early. Let…
Clodagh McKenna at Highclere Castle, Hay-on-Wye, London crafts, and a cosy autumn weekend Good morning, friends. Pumpkin soup, apple crisp, a cosy throw, a new book, and a comfy chair. That is my plan for tonight, and I will not apologize for a single minute of it. After a morning in the garage (yes, the…
Milwaukee in Fall, the Cornell 7, RAINN, four home tours and a Karl Lagerfeld film coming to the cinema The first few weeks of fall have been lovely, and there is nothing quite like fall in the Midwest to remind you what the season is actually supposed to feel like. I was in Milwaukee visiting…
A painter who found her audience in her seventies, champagne at Ina’s kitchen table, and a short film about what stays unfinished Good morning, friends. Fall arrived on the calendar this week, and I was dancing a jig. Not literally, but in my mind. After a few days of much needed rain the weather has…
A caterpillar, a dance, a castle, and everything in between, with Kim and Juliet How can one be so excited by a caterpillar? I have been asking myself that all week. As you know, the circle, as I affectionately call it, is my pollinator garden, designed to bloom from early spring through fall and to…
A cooler Saturday morning, a broken closet bar, a Dublin home tour, and a man who has lived alone in the Scottish Highlands for forty years It is Saturday morning and I am having a lie in. I had every intention of getting up and walking (it is cooler this morning than it has been,…
A week of happy, sad, and everything in between, with Kim and Juliet Good morning, friends. It is time for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet. Join us as we share all the things that piqued our interest this week. I won’t lie, this past week has been all over the place. We celebrated my…
Four house tours, two films worth watching, and fall finds from TJ Maxx Good morning, friends. It is Saturday. Pour a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate and sit for a spell. It has been a hard week. I am with my brother-in-law, who has Alzheimer’s, and caregiving at this level is something I have…
Two films, an English river cottage, and why I am waiting for the light Good morning, friends. It is time for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet. Join us as we share all the things that caught our eye and piqued our interest this week. Is it just me, or does anyone else get something…
