Author: Susan Blakey

  • Home again…

    First, the Ecstasy, then the Laundry. It was a great trip, even though we only had one of those “bluebird days.” But we did get…

  • Une femme recommends…

    Aquaphor Healing Ointment. Still the best for winter-chapped and roughened skin. Yesterday we had quite the unexpected snowstorm…great for snow pack, but not so much…

  • By a thread…

    I’ll admit, I hadn’t heard much about the process of eyebrow threading until a salon specializing in this technique opened at a local mall a…

  • Just A Small Dinner Party…

    …with a few of my closest friends, oh wait– no, this month we’re talking about our fantasy dinner party, where the guests can be any…

  • "Dust on Crust"*

    Oui, c’est moi bundled up in there. *That’s how they’re describing current ski conditions.  Fabulous first day out skiing, even though it was cloudy and…

  • Fab Friday Roundup

    WANT those sunglasses!! Photo from here. Final bit of packing tonight, then it’s an early flight tomorrow…off to the Colorado Rockies for a week of…

  • Office-Worthy Denim

    The closest anyone at Sterling Cooper ever came to Business Casual! Whether you find it freeing or confounding or a mixture of both, for the…

  • Must be my lucky week…

    I won the Shabby Apple skirt from Pam at Over50Feeling40!!! I’ve already been mentally going through my closet to pick pieces to try styling with…

  • Une femme recommends…

    Darling, where have you been all my life??? Le monsieur likes his button-front shirts. He’s a wear-em-once-and-wash-em kind of homme. A Domestic Goddess I am…