While I’m not a big shopper, I do love playing pretend and making gift guides. I’m inspired by three of the places I traveled to this year: Ireland, Vermont, & Paris. While obviously some of the items are inspirational & not realistic cost-wise, they are possible to find in handmade or lower priced iterations. I [...]

I’ve already flooded twitter and Facebook with a kitten frenzy, but you know, why not here too? We walk past the ASPCA window frequently as it’s near our work & this little guy kept drawing us in – on the 4th visit we finally just brought him home. He & Huey are still being kept [...]

Thanks for the coziness & sweetness on my wee meltdown post. Man alive, you guys. You make me cry!!! I’ve been trying to rest and just absorb everything of the past year – it’s been nonstop wedding & work & hectic madness, on top of all the loss of last winter. It’s strange to suddenly [...]

The ponies, I think, were one of my favorite parts of Ireland. Everywhere you looked, horses. At one point we saw 2 white horses running wild through a field, it was like a dream.   In the background is Knocknarea. Carrowmore tombs. The rest of the photos are the drive from Sligo, to Westport, to [...]

Side trips to Glenveagh and Sligo Abbey. The entire estate has green doors. Yes please. & Sligo Abbey, a spooky little calm in a town that’s grown quite a bit since I was last there. I was going to write a little about how it feels to be back, at this strange verge of ‘what [...]

Lough Eske – a dream of a place to start a honeymoon. Sybaritic & curled up in front of the fire, watching the moon rise over the castle, hours floating in the heated pool under glass walls or steaming in cedar saunas. Tromping the grounds in search of hidden graveyards, mystic woods, toadstools & fairyrings, mossy [...]

Last time I went to Vermont I posted only a tiny fraction of the zillion photos I took. This time, I barely took a handful!  Tiny snippets of stolen time – riding lessons with my nephews, driving curving dirt roads in crisp autumn splendor, bonfires at the cabin, rain on the new roof, waking up [...]

These photos and the ones in the previous post are by my very talented sister-in-law, but my good friend Jeremy also took a milliioooonnnn photos.  I won’t get to see Jeremy’s until the first week of November because he’s traveling, so I want to wait to do the grand mega-crazy wedding blog post with all [...]

Hey! We’re married! Everything looked exactly as I imagined, it was the most beautiful day ever, and we’re off to Ireland! Tiny sneak peek!

You can tell I’m in the wedding home stretch, the last few posts have featured other peoples photos! I feel bad about that, but I have so much work to do, no time for adventures & photos!! I’m just trying to gather all my final prep for the wedding, and gathering last minute inspiration around [...]

I know it’s wedding frenzy up in here, and I apologize, but Dori just sent the photos from her New Hampshire wedding on August 28th. The dress I made her looks SO GOOD, and she says; “I got dressed outside. it was a farm for crying out loud- there was no where else to do [...]

A quick note to say I have a guest post up at A Practical Wedding today. I’m super excited and some of the comments have already made me teary!! Though most photos on the APW post are by me, I tacked on a few by my SIL Emily – she’s a great photographer if anyone [...]