wardrobe inspiration from Nature

You remember my recently-knit silk scarf, don’t you? I thought I’d show you how closely related its colours are to my surroundings. Here’s the beach in front of our house: This yew tree trunk has…

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The Garden’s Baubles . . . and Mine

Admittedly, the above is not a particularly convincing photo, but it’s meant to show you that the “strawberries” on my Arbutus uneda (Strawberry tree) are plumping up and changing colour. While I’ve had berries on…

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what i wore — old favourites

I’ve made quite a few additions to my closet in the last few months and often grapple with guilt about spending — this has always been an issue with me and probably won’t go away…

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what i wore: ’round town errands

around townby materfamilias Inspired by Karen Of a Certain Age, I’ve been wasting timeplaying around over at Polyvore. Quite a few weeks ago, when I posted about my new back-to-school shoes, Duchesse wondered what I’d…

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My new haircut

Okay, so here’s the new haircut — not great photos ’cause I’m taking them myself with my arm stretched way out. My hair’s new quite dry here, and later on I picked it out to…

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