Category Archives: miscellany

My recommendations (all for under $3)

I am tired today. We drove 1 hour + to our son’s soccer game (they won; I froze). The upside was I was wide awake when we got home at the late, late hour of 9:30 and was able to see quite a bit of the baseball game …. (by the way, has anyone else […]

What a Weekend

Wow. The weather gods certainly smiled on Chicago this weekend. After a cool and blustery Friday night, perfection was in order for Saturday and Sunday. We tried to do “outside” things as much as possible during the daytime. On Saturday, we made it to the Lake County Forest Preserve museum. More on that tomorrow. (The […]

A nominee, and a link

Well, after a very dry September, it’s back to rain in these parts. Which is great for our newly planted French pussy willows, part of our long-unfulfilled plan to block our view of the alley. Here’s hoping that the plan b willows do the job!Sitting at soccer practice last night (the rain held off for […]

Miscellany

After a weekend of weather that looked like November, even if it felt warmer, I plowed through a lot of reading ….. which means I have info to pass along. i.} Today, Jennifer Murphy is on the Martha show making a sweet pumpkin man. Gotta see that! and tomorrow, she updates the shop with Halloween […]

What Would You Learn?

I love Kate Spade’s “behind the curtain” site. It’s so beautifully done, and full of things that I love obsessing over, like the desktop profiles, mix tapes, or just scrolling through the “things we love” to find something new. Yesterday, while clicking around to sites I haven’t visited in a while, I noticed that there […]