I’ve been missing pizza like crazy so I asked Holly if she’d cook me a gluten free version of her famous pizzas. Yes, I’m spoiled by my friends – Holly made my wedding cakes and they were fa-an-cy. (Bay Area readers, she’s just started teaching cooking – she’ll come to you and give classes – [...]

Happy first day of Spring! It’s been a crazy weekend here, weather-wise. Friday night actually covered our yard with hail-snow, and last night the wind shook the house and did something to the heater (the wind drafts through it) so our back room smells like heating gas. Not good! We’ve mostly been hibernating, still. This [...]

The one everyone knows! The secret center of the cosmic spiderweb hum hum hum!! Mention Austin in a crowd of strangers, and surely everyone will say “Austin? Do you know Angel?” & of course…they do. Perhaps I shouldn’t speak so loudly, I’m sure there’s meaning to her magical web-pulling ways, and we’ll all be drawn [...]

Old barn doors. Cream eyelet and Swiss champagne satin batiste. Mason jars of roses & forget-me-nots. Streamers of bright ribbon clutched by children. Tiny violinists under apple trees. Punched tin can lanterns. Sweet ancient songs sung by schoolchildren. Dancing wildly to a bluegrass band. Sugary white cakes. A tiny wedding night cottage. Tealights floating in [...]

Quick trip to Davis this weekend, and the first in a series I’ve been meaning to do forever highlighting my amazing lady friends. The luminous and highly talented Miss Kai Smart agreed to touch up / completely renovate some very poor tattoos I had done in 2006. Note to self: never get just brown ink [...]

weeks of adventures. wine parties & curled in chairs talking late. fog hung picnics on lake edges, sprawled on colorful blankets with mouths full of chocolate & pies. long walks on forest paths, bowls of mexican hot chocolate with fingers curled tight begging for warmth, art shows & tapas in new dark magic places, shimmering [...]

A harbinger of tea in the garden – this lovely print (I have coveted the original for awhile now!!) is a “100th sale” gift from the very talented Liza! This weekend was really one of the most peachy perfection weekends since that amazing birthday weekend a few months ago! Saturday was witchens tea party #5 [...]

Whirlwind spontaneous houseguests bringing in a breath of Vermont witchery, including a tiny gnome. It was great to see Selene and how Lucien has grown, strange to be around this tiny creature!! I need more babies in my life. So get to work, friends!! Talking over a bottle of wine in a nest on the [...]

Yesterday I was lazily browsing the internet, scrying for who-knows-what, and saw a listing for the Akron/Family show at Brookdale Lodge. I’d been thinking about it, but then had forgotten, and decided if I did not rent a car RIGHT THEN and drag Holly and Elly along, I would be sorry. So I did. And [...]

how how how much do i love my ladies? so much!!! today was dressing up & feasting on so many tea treats! tiny sandwiches! scones! clotted cream! homemade jams! cookies! macaroons! crumpets! crostini! champagne! eep!! the darling and lovely mary ann was our host for the evening, and her home a delight ~ after much [...]

tea party thursday ran 3pm until 10:30pm unexpectedly. surprise visits from rachie. sitting in the garden, talking from serious to laughing, tea + rose lemonade + elderflower soda, cookies + tiny sandwiches + scones and clotted cream. visits from kittens. magic. eating treats. thrifted treats.