Author: Susan Blakey

  • monday mixer

      In comments on last Monday’s “lessons from the travel wardrobe” post, reader Cindy asked to see how I’d combine items above to create different…

  • dans le jardin

      Today I’m sharing a neighbor’s garden that I hope will inspire you. He has cultivated a Monarch Butterfly habitat, to help combat the dwindling…

  • shopping “les soldes”

      During recent email exchanges, Tish of A Femme d’un Certain Âge and I were discussing les soldes (the sales) and what if anything we’d…

  • wrangler

    Back in the Wild West and the days of cattle drives, the wrangler was often the youngest, most inexperienced member of the team who was…

  • winter white, sort of

    This Eileen Fisher knit jacket (or cardigan, depending on your POV) is actually bone not white, but I’ve seen so many different interpretations of “winter…