Cashmere Mending: Patchwork, Sashiko, and a Bit of Play

 A week or two ago I posted this image on Instagram: a patch I’d sashiko‘d over a hole in a cashmere sweater, and I had a request to explain the process here on the blog.…

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City Life, with a bit of Over-60 Style

Just quickly, because apparently we have only one more day of these gorgeously crisp blue skies, November temps hovering nicely at freezing after teasing us with a sprinkle of snowflakes Saturday (and look at the…

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Saturday Report: City Life, Vancouver Style. . .

I uploaded these photos early Thursday, planning to write the text the next morning before our visiting family woke.  No time for a Five Things Friday, but I thought I could manage a quick What…

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Good-bye, October. We Hardly Knew Ye . . .

First of all, thank you for responding so thoughtfully and generously to Monday’s post. There’s always trepidation when I let you see my messier side, but as much as I value my own, and our…

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Monday, Monday — Of Moods and Friends and The Possibilities of Reaching Out

I’ve been wrestling with a very low mood again this weekend, and without boring you (and giving up all my privacy) with details, I’ll just say that once this creeps in, it becomes physical, something between…

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