Author: Susan Blakey

  • Lundi à la carte

    Big Scary Monster No outfit post today. Aside from time constraints, it was just too warm over the weekend for me to get motivated to…

  • Friday’s Assortment

    From the marché in Aix en Provence, April 2012 We’re having some crazy Santa Ana wind here in LA, and hot, dry conditions again. 🙁…

  • Hiding In Plain Sight

    Quelques Parisiennes in their natural habitat. Note the (mostly) sensible shoes. It was rather serendipitous, Duchesse’s post yesterday at Passage Des Perles. (When A French…

  • Weekend WIWarrior

    Beginning to look like Autumn round the old homestead… Les weekends are about Getting Stuff Done. Grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning, gardening, grooming dogs, planning and writing…

  • Dans le jardin

    A friend gave us a little fig tree cutting a few months ago and assured us it would do just fine in a container. I’d…

  • Makeup Tips From The Mall

    I don’t know about where you live, but around here when it comes to le maquillage, the words “subtle” and “mall” are rarely uttered in…

  • Stealth Subversive

    Sometimes we all need a bit of Attitude to get through the day…Wendy B “IDGAF” Necklace I’ve loved Wendy’s Swear Rings since she first introduced…

  • Back On The Radar: Coach

    Legacy Candace tote I’ll admit it: if you’d told me a year ago I’d actually step foot in a Coach store of my own volition,…

  • Reality Calls…

    It’s only a paper moon, hanging over an ersatz Vegas Venice. Our long weekend is wrapping up, and we’re making the drive home today. The…