• Room With A View

    Sunset, Saturday night. Sunday morning Our trip so far has been very low-key and relaxing.  We’ve done little except hang out under one of those…

  • Foulard de la semaine (Rerun)

    No new video this week due to the holiday and travel, but I’ll have a new tutorial up next week.  In the meantime, you can see…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    For those of you celebrating Turkey Day, hope you have a fabulous one, with easy cleanup! As always, I’m thankful for good health, a loving family,…

  • Pondering Normal

    In three weeks, I’ve dropped 5.5 pounds on Weight Watchers. (8 more to go.) Week one was hard.  By the second week, I was shopping and planning and…

  • L’orangerie!

    As tomato season winds down, citrus season is ramping up.  When we planned our garden makeover, we wanted to include some potted dwarf citrus for…

  • Foulard de la semaine

    A little change from the carrès this week. Here we have deux petits riens for a longer knit scarf.  I prefer scarves that are lightweight…

  • Compare and contrast…

    Pursuant to yesterdays discussion about Hermès’ recent markting campaign.  “That’s all.” Edited to add:  this is just meant as a fun comparison to yesterday’s post…

  • Hermès For Hipsters?

    It seems the marketing people at Hermès have noticed that hardly anyone under the age of 80 is wearing their scarves (outside of we hardcore devotees),…

  • Mystery Clutch

    While out and about last week, I spotted this clutch on a retailer’s accessories table, and had to zoom in for a closer look.  The leather…