Currently I am traveling in Connecticut and during my morning walk, I am surprised to see so many beautiful window boxes filled with colorful flowers. Naturally this got me thinking about window boxes and how I do not have a one. Nada. No where on either of our properties is there a single window box!…
With all the holiday entertaining, it is such fun to make a wreath-themed charcuterie board for your guests. At our Fall Styling Workshop in October, this attractive and delicious appetizer is shared with our participants. Here is a step-by-step tutorial on what you need and how to arrange it. The Base Start with a round…
Last November, we hosted family at our cabin for Thanksgiving. In determining who would sleep where, we decide to take our home office room on the first floor and convert it into a guest bedroom. This particular room is at the end of a hall with its own bathroom, so it makes sense for our…
Every year Judith Baigent King (teaching chef, food writer, author) coordinates and organizes a Fantasy Table event to raise educational scholarship money for those who work at our country club in the mountains. It is a monumental effort and hence, very difficult to say no when she asks you to host a table! What makes…
This week, conversations about arms keeps coming up over and over again~with various friends and where I work out. With warmer weather approaching and less clothing, many of us aren’t particularly happy with the appearance of our arms. Called aunty arms, bingo wings, flabby dabbies, and bat wings it’s the loose skin around our tricep…