Friday Outfit for Walking to Sketch with a Friend (Such a Good Day!)

As I wrote last post, “we had friends over for dinner the other night.” Wonderful, casual sentence we often used to toss around, right? And to be able to use it again is such a…

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Simplest Outfit Ever and a Month’s Worth of Good Books

This is the first Reading Post in many years that I’ve published for the first (and only) time right on my main (now my only) blog. Past experience has shown me that many of you…

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Friday’s Happy Random: Dinner with Guests, Sweet City Moments, Outfit of the Day

Yesterday, I walked to Granville Island to pick up macarons, dessert for our second dinner=with-guests here in less than a week. It’s a fairly long walk, but the weather was pleasant — showers held off, considerately, until…

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And Another Move . . . (It’s Not What You’re Thinking)

I missed my regular Monday posting. You might not have noticed, but I did, and now here I am, a day late, to tell you why. I have a good reason for my tardiness, and…

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Creative Frugality, Continued: Granddaughter’s Ripped Jeans, Meet Sashiko Stitching. . .

Some of you may remember that I took a class in Sashiko Stitchinga few years ago and then a few months later played around with mending some sweaters using this technique.  Since then, I’ve become…

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