Lest you think I am two-dimensional, only obsessed with magazines and stationery, let me assure you that you are wrong. I am also obsessed with ribbons. It’s especially bad at Christmas. I get white wrapping paper and then go nuts with ribbons! If you also suffer from ribbon envy, you should visit Soutache in Chicago’s Bucktown […]
Just two short weeks ago, my yard was full of peonies. Full to the point of “I can’t cut them all, but it sure is great to have so many beautiful blooms.” Cut to today, and the photo above. It’s over. I am now going to have to get my peony fix the expensive way, […]
Let’s face it – I have a serious magazine addiction that stems back to age 12 or so, when I started to believe that Seventeen magazine was speaking to ME. I had to have my mom drive me to the local drugstore as soon as I felt the new issue was being unwrapped ….. and […]
Do we finally have enough magazines telling us how to parent? Cookie magazine launched earlier this year, helping us all to be better upper-income parents. Now, just weeks after Martha closed her Kids magazine, I learned Tuesday at Gawker that Bundle and Child have also announced they will no longer be newsstand titles. (Child intends […]
I’ve been thinking about starting my own blog for a while now, and today picked up iLife ’06 while running errands. What will the blog be about? My thoughts, inspirations, and more likely, current obsessions. Today’s obsession is cupcakes. I had cupcake pancakes for breakfast (that were so good) at Southport Grocery in Chicago. How […]
