I love stationery. Really high-quality and personalized. I am old-school. I love to receive mail and I really love to send it. How amazing is this site? Check out this selection of notecards!

I’ve searched high and low for an antique or a vintage mail sorter from a hotel or an old apartment building. I’d love to have this one cleaned up and painted and then use it in our mudroom. It’s our family’s main entrance into the home, and it’s just a dark mess. No organization to [...]

Our recyclables are a nightly mess. We use one tiny bin underneath the kitchen sink and it’s full by lunchtime, and as the kitchen is on the main level and the garage is two levels down, I don’t take out the recycling nearly as often as I should. Which means we have major overflow issues. [...]

I’m into orange lately. That’s something new and different for me. Since I’m all about the neutrals. But it’s such a happy color. Even more so than sunny yellow. And I’m reading that orange is the hot new color. Which means, in my book, a trend. And I really dislike trends. So I don’t spend [...]

These are the most perfect gold hoop earrings ever.   I’m not big into jewelry, but in my efforts to step out of my comfort zone, I’m trying.

Big summer sale at one of my favorite children’s stores, ‘Peek… Aren’t You Curious.’

I never have a going-out-at-night bag. I always end up schlepping around my daytime tote which is huge. But I am having just the hardest time committing to one. I like this one from Topshop, and the price is just right. I love this one from JJ Winters. The price? Not so right.

Cute dress, right? I haven’t been into a Gap in forever. At least not unless it was to grab something for the girls. But this dress caught my eye. I have always loved shirt-dresses. They are wildly flattering on every body type. And that this one is denim with a slight Western-cut makes it absolutely [...]

On occasion, I see a picture of someone famous wearing something that I just have to have. The most laughable occurrence of this was Reese Witherspoon’s gold YSL sandals that retail for well over $500 and were sold out or had a waiting list, or something like that. Clearly, I am not crazy. I did [...]

My new purse. By Linea Pelle. It makes me very happy. And it was a steal for a high-end designer bag. Of which I have not bought (or received) a new one since Coco was born. So I have no guilt. And why this lovely pewter color was 50% off is beyond me, because it’s [...]

I’ve been eyeing these Stella McCartney for Adidas shoes for a while now. And every time I’m ready to place my order, they’re out of my size. I love that they are a sneaker, but that they amp up the style factor of my morning outfit during the school year, a time of the year [...]

I carry around a huge wallet. It’s so huge that my husband assumed I was carrying around our checkbook in it. Uh, no. I’m not. But I hear you. In an effort to pair down, I’d love to find something small that I can grab and run out the door. Large enough to hold my [...]

I am into quality shoes for my girls. They tear the less expensive shoes up in the matter of a couple of wearings. And when I do the math and realize that for the cost of those two cheap pairs I bought at the discount place, I could have bought one pair of higher-quality shoes [...]

Summer is a time of the year when I have to spend a little extra time grooming myself. Between waxing, tanning lotions and dry hair desperately in need of deep conditioning, it’s a good thing the girls are not in school or I’d never get them to class on time. Some of my favorites: This [...]

Outdoor concerts are in full swing in our neck of the woods. I love this time of the year. A bunch of us gather up our families, our picnic baskets, bottles of wine, and head to a local resort to sit on the grass, enjoy the music and watch the kids chase each other around [...]