Living near History

I’ve mentioned that my aunt is a brilliant and dedicated archivist of any and all family memories. This includes paperwork, keepsakes, photos, even recipes. She scans everything and sends it to us on discs. For someone who has a love affair with all things vintagey and papery this is like hitting the lottery. One thing [...]

Holidayhangover

After 10 days in my beloved Atlanta I’m heading home this afternoon. I find that the end of the holiday season is always a bit of a downer, don’t you? There’s such a massive build up and then it’s all over before you know it. And then you have to head back to the real [...]

Some Cheer

My dears, I hope you had lovely weekends. I certainly did. Lots of holiday-style festivity and perhaps a few (too many) libations. But it’s sort of the season for that isn’t it? Well that’s my rationalization at least. On Friday night I went to a Christmas pop sing sing-a-long that was really kind of awesome. [...]

party time is the best time

Hi friends. I hope you enjoyed your respective weekends. Mine was lovely. As I mentioned last week, Natalie and I hosted a little dessert party at my place on Saturday afternoon for NYC bloggers. It was a fantastic time with plenty of delicious desserts to go around. It was so nice to meet so many [...]

Books and The City

Have you ever been in a reading rut? I’m just coming out of one. And it was a doozie. I started and abandoned like four different books because they just weren’t cutting it. I guess I’m not that great of a reader because I have to be pulled in, I can’t suffer through something boring [...]

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