We’re down to the wire now people. Less than a week ‘til Christmas and if your house is anything like mine, it’s covered in a staggering mix of wrapping paper scraps and powdered sugar. Time to take stock of what we realistically can do and what needs to go into our dreams of Christmas future. [...]
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Light it up!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at the House of Bliss. The front porch is dripping with white icicle lights and the back terraced garden is strung willy-nilly with colored bulbs, creating what my husband likes to call “our holiday light mullet.” Yep. Classy in the front and a party in the [...]
Wild Turkeys and Pilgrim Pugs
A few weeks ago I walked out my front door and ran into seven wild turkeys pecking at hidden treasures in the long grass on the banks of our front creek. Mindless of me, three of them marched up the porch steps to stand at my front door as though they expected someone to let [...]
Girl Power
Watching the political duel that was the second presidential debate, I couldn’t believe the amount of testosterone on display. The president, usually so suave and unflappable, came off as a vindictive bully. Gov. Romney, abandoning his gosh-golly-darn colloquialisms, prowled the stage like a veteran combatant ready to wrestle the POTUS to the mat. Really, [...]
Swinging From The Trees
At the annual Quilting in the Garden quilt show held at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore this past weekend, quilts hung from beautiful old oaks like a dapper giant’s freshly hung laundry. Each year the show features a professional quilter and this year’s quilting queen was Judy Mathieson, master of the Mariner’s Compass. Her exquisitely pieced quilts were [...]
September Blues
Though this was supposed to be Tangerine’s year, the Blues Brothers (and their sisters Azure, Turquoise and Indigo) rule! According to San Francisco seamstress Laurel Sprigg, blue is the color she’s stitching up most often for the interior designs of her fashionable clients. She attributes the ongoing interest in heavenly hues and patterns–like this new [...]
Many Happy Returns
Hello world! We survived the move and are settling nicely into our little cabin in the woods. After a month of waking up to the sound of wild turkeys and tending to a garden swarming with friendly buzzing creatures, I’ve decided we’ve moved into a house fit for a hobbit. Tucked into the hillside, with [...]
Silent Night
Under siege by prospective homebuyers, we escaped once again to the movies. The 1927 silent film Napoleon was being staged in downtown Oakland at the glorious Paramount Theater. The East Bay Symphony would play the never-before-heard-in-America score by British composer Carl Davis and Davis himself would be conducting. The entire production would take 8.5 hours [...]
Perfume Aisle Paradise
On the heels of Bouquets to Art and the San Francisco Garden Show comes the annual Macy’s Flower Show. This is the show’s 66th year and the Union Square flagship store is one of five Macy’s participating nationwide. The theme is Brasil, Gardens in Paradise which explains why I’m analyzing a giant toucan’s plumage near the [...]
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Restock or Reinvent?
Ever since I was a little girl pouring over the Sears catalog* to order school clothes I’ve loved the idea of creating a wardrobe from scratch. Unlike a friend who lost her home and all her belongings in the Oakland Hills fire (or a cousin who once had most of her wardrobe stolen from a [...]
