So first, let’s all take a moment to admire this platter.
Let’s also take a moment to agree that blue and white dishes are the dining room equivalent of a little black dress. They are always so right.
And now, about the sage.
Category: House
John Derian and Grandma Weasley and My Indoor Garden : Gallery Wall With Vintage Flea-Market Style Paintings
Fayez and I had a couple of “just us” days this past week, and on a beautiful 80 degree Saturday we went into New York. It had been a while since I ventured in, and it was just as I remembered. All the crowds, smells, and sights were still there. Although now, after living in the burbs of New Jersey for almost a year, I have a hard time fathoming how we survived that level of daily noise and chaos. I feel very sentimental about our Queens neighborhood at times, but on the whole I’m very happy to have left that daily craziness behind.
Mission: Make Spring Happen By Sheer Will, a Bud Vase, and Some Paint
Today we drove to Home Depot in sleet, bought cornflower blue paint, drank coffee, and sent spring vibes out into the universe. It’s clear that New Jersey has no intention of letting flowers bloom and doves coo. There is even more snow in the forecast. But I have strategies. And none of them involve crying.
There She Blows, Again: Nor’Easter Numero Quatro and the Time I Tried to Kill Tinkerbell
*This photo is old as dirt. I no longer have that sweater, or that turquoise bookcase and I think someone should answer for that. And by someone, I mean me, because I sold them and that was dumb.
Mother Nature is a sadistic broad.
Black Cats and Hand Slaps: Thrift Shopping
After several years of thrifting hiatus, I’m back. But two years of apartment living in New York taught me several things.
