Happy New Year, May Yours Be Cough-Free!

2024 gave us a few days before knocking us out with a cough-ridden plague, but I’m finding a few happy diversions: walking the neighbourhood, sketching a house or two, wearing a favourite OOTD, and admiring the winter blooms, especially the fragrant ones. Walk along with me? Just click through. . .

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Bundled Up for the Season — Comfort and Joy and a Coat or Two

Time to bring that travel wardrobe firmly back to Vancouver. The coat that served me well in Paris and Turin has to work harder now that ice and snow are bringing the BRrrrr factor to my neighbourhood walks. Click through for some What I Wore examples and also some chat about what’s going on at my place as Christmas approaches.

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Pyjama Days . . . Getting this New Year started . . .

These early days of January can be a challenge, and sometimes we just want to go back to bed. I was dreaming of luxurious loungewear, such as I’d seen in a Paris shop window. And he was on a Mission to buy me cozy pyjamas. . . with some comic results. Read on. . .

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Christmas Week Reflections

Except for Boxing Day, which we had gloriously and entirely to ourselves, at home all day watching the snow, we’ve been enjoying lovely family time, relieved and satisfied at how well our new, smaller space…

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Six (and a jumble) Things Saturday, Some Random Before Christmas. . .

Still bubbling over with Random here, and I was looking forward to coralling that Random into a Five Things Friday post. Instead, yesterday was conscripted for 1) Finally writing the final post in my Ferrante…

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