We dipped colorful leaves in melted beeswax this weekend. Faye took her Halloween costume for a test-drive, I snapped a few photos, neither one of us upended the pot of liquid wax. Here’s a…
five little things that made my week. 1. this bit of visible mending. {because i’m not sure if i did it “right,” but there was a hole, and now there’s not. and that feels…
#157 Give Yourself a Sick Day I spent much of my childhood engaged in long drawn-out games of make-believe. Some of these games featured bucolic scenarios of apple picking or making feasts of mud…
five little things that made my week. 1. this umbrella. {and a rare moment of weather-related preparedness.} 2. these moody hydrangeas. {for being even prettier all crisped up.} 3. this relocated diaper pail. {because…
A few months ago, at a dinner out, Faye popped her head over the top of the restaurant booth and saw the party next to us drinking from cocktails with plastic straws. “That’s not…
five little things that made my week: 1. this apple cider in this mug. {because for a day there it was cool enough to warm it up and have a snuggle.} 2. this tub…
We’re in it. That mildly mind-wrecking moment when the tiniest human among us is making daily work of investigating every nook and cranny in our apartment and identifying for us yet another potentially hazardous corner…
I’ll begin by stating the obvious which is that I have neither a degree in chemistry, nor a desire to wax poetic about the joys of house cleaning. I have a house that often…
five little things that made my week. 1. this sweater. {i’ve got some colorful plans for you, little bud.} 2. this book. {spotted on the sidewalk by a little friend who insisted upon rescuing it…
Simple Stuff: A series devoted to talking about the stuff that might prove useful or helpful or otherwise necessary while making a home in a small apartment or anywhere. Its aim is to provide a…