I tried sea buckthorn for the first time yesterday. People use the berries in jams, pies, drinks and other foods, as well as in medicines and cosmetics. It's very sour but not impossibly sour. (At least, not for those of us who love sour things.) Not sure if
We watched a movie last weekend called "About Time" with Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson and Bill Nighy (who is the very definition of a bon vivant, is he not?). It only gets 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, which feels criminally low to me. It's a sweet
I've been experimenting with Ghost now for the past week, and I have some gripes. 1. If, like me, you want to pay as little as possible for Ghost to host your site ($15 a month), you have to use their free "Source" theme. You cannot
Jordan Cunliffe meticulously stitches stories from data she has collected into her artisan embroidery pieces. Sometimes she uses data that she records about her own life, like every time she fed her daughter for the first year of her daughter's life, and sometimes she finds something interesting as
A list of some things that make me happy: * Snail mail * A ripe nectarine * Silly discussion in my group chats * The Netherlands * Finishing a good book * Petting dogs * My birthday * Flowers * Baking * Ferry rides * Art museums * Small gourmet grocery stores * Bookmobiles * Washi tape * The smell of pine trees * Pizza * Taking
Claire Tabouret is an incredibly talented French artist living in Los Angeles. I saw her "Weaving Waters, Weaving Gestures" exhibit at Museum Voorlinden in Wasenaar, Netherlands earlier this year. Here are a few of her works I loved:
At the beginning of October, I'm taking a solo trip to an island in the Finnish archipelago (between Stockholm and Turku) for a work exchange program at a hotel run by a lovely mother/daughter duo. Basically, I get to work to earn my keep, which is perfect
I used to write a blog when my girls were little. It was a mix of curating things I liked, and doing fun activities, and goofing off with my kids. I wrote that for a fairly long time, and then I decided to write a second blog about stationery (which