We’ve been town & country, carting food & wine here, there, and everywhere.
salmon on cabbage
a flat of homegrown strawberries = 14 jars of jam
Life is moving fast, definitely some big bumps, yet we’re celebrating the simple.
yes, please, homegrown peas
everyone in the kitchen now
Breaking bread, always a party to go. When we started this site 5+ years ago we were all about making your bed, protein at breakfast, walk the dogs, get out of the yoga clothes, put on some makeup (yay, kind of slacking on that one, it’s summer…), make some dinner, spend time with those you love, enjoy a glass of wine. Still the same.
major mac & cheese prep, notice the rose gold Birkenstocks and the white polish
unplanned family supper
flower prep, check out the sleeping dog 🙂
blanched hericots verts and chorizo bread waiting to be cubed
the sky is falling
double denim, double wooden salad bowls, toss with your hands
gorgeous roasted miniature San Marizona tomatoes
homegrown for the table times twelve
the gangs all here
knot those cloth napkins if no time to iron
Every day dress. xoxo
back in town, champagne and cell phone never far behind….
We’ve been out for a little, cooking, gardening, parenting, and forever working on good habits. We’ve been at our studio as well, helping women put together looks for spring and summer events, professional and celebratory. One thing we’ve added to our personal shopping cart is a new mid-year agenda, to help us stay on track, especially those daily habit kind of things.
Last year for the 51st birthday bought the desk size, this year we’re sizing down. Streamlining has been kind of our thing, with the wardrobe edit, now the agenda, and even the wallet. We’ve switched to carrying a little silver card case, with two cards, one for personal, one for business, and our drivers license. All those fancy store credit cards, gone. Card case slips into our bag, or a jacket pocket, or the back of our jeans. Easy.
We love anything Smythson, friend and colleague gifted us with these amazing notebooks, one personalized SCRAPPY, and the other, CLASSY. Pretty much sums us up. Thank you, dear friend.
Every day dress, some new habits, and a new mid-year agenda.
Conversation with 5th child, 3rd daughter, before dinner: me: ‘really kind of liking these un-ironed linen napkins of late’, her: ‘yeah, I get it, me too’.
We’re all for a little pomp and circumstance, especially when the occasion calls for it, yet on a weeknight family kitchen dinner, we can go with the un-ironed.
Like everyone out there, we’ve been busy (prom season et al), and wondering where the days go.
sliced leg of lamb, roasted potato, sautéed spinach
all hands on deck, fish tacos
we always love a little wine
As crazy as it gets, the glue that keeps us together is breaking bread, whatever that may be. Peanut butter and jelly, fish tacos, roasted leg of lamb, doesn’t really matter.
a rail for a client
Every day dress, linen, un-ironed. xoxo
all photos from the iPhone, we got a new laptop and it doesn’t have a memory card drive, not that it makes a big difference, LOL, figuring it out, stay tuned.
We’ve been doing stuff, like roasting chickens, and grilling caesar salad, and wearing our wardrobe classics: long merino skirt, Breton stripes kind of thing bodysuit, a leather jacket. and a striped scarf.
Also going on, a pile of beans, and weeknight dinners:
a pile of beans, who really cares
sweet potatoes
add a lean protein and some time in the kitchen and you’ve got dinner baby
grocery roses, $20, DIY
cut flowers on the table at the restaurant, always add votives
double dates xoxo
a finger or two in the frosting, always
twins!! celebrating 27…
the men watching sports, on the iPhone, in the wine cellar haha
While talking about the blog with second son, graphic designer, expressed how I didn’t want this to be a place where readers felt worse after visiting. You know, an endless visual parade of all things new you need to buy, or etc.
We like new, no problem there. It’s the constant and endless acquisition that gets us.
So, here we are, digging down a little in the kitchen and digging down a little in the closet.
so, he did get the bunny in the window, and here is its head, on a platter, for breakfast, lol
Snow day in the BUF, so we’re staying put and doing fun things in the kitchen like making omelets, and vegetable stock.
Never knew a proper omelet was all about the proper heat, and stirring, and stirring and shaking, and that the eggs should be barely done. And that to be an omelet you don’t even need to put anything in it, it’s all technique. We’re all about learning new things.
Baking we’ve done for decades, and funny thing is no one really eats the stuff anymore, it just kind of sits.
Thinking we’ll have more success with some good soup from some scratch stock.
Every day dress, we’re pretty mellow, loving the March snow day. xoxo
Life-long learning, we’re all for it. Enrolled in some online stuff and while we love clothes, shoes, and bags, decided to upgrade the culinary skills.
Here’s a little of what we’ve been up to, the past three days at least:
setting up for poached eggs
barely yet greatly set
lunch for one, new nail color, Essie bikini so teeny, and a jam jar with a smash of Walt Chardonnay
homegrown kitchen counter basil
resulting basil walnut pesto, skipped those pine nuts this time
veggies prepped for dinner
couldn’t resist, pussy willow for the front hall from the grocery, $15
if it works, do it again, this time black suede Birkenstocks, OPI boyfriend jeans nail color
We’ve been trying to get in the kitchen, buying baby bok choy and stuff to step up our culinary skill set. Instead we’ve been doing the school run drive around, and it’s all okay.
Husband reads all the time, and reads a lot about happiness. This morning while I was ironing he said the latest research shows that homemakers are the happiest. Can’t tell you how excited I was to not go anywhere today and just do laundry. 🙂
So, since we need to eat I’ll try and tackle that new green vegetable now. And, as we need to dress this is the look we put together today for the run around. We mixed up some floral print, a kind of conservative blue cashmere jacket, and a little camo. Momma won’t like it, she’s so over the skinny jean thing and these are in camo, yet we’re wearing good shoes.
chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, tastes way better than it looks
Sunday afternoon late lunch
She’s recovering, although it might take a little. We’re in a little funk, so doing what we do: making the bed, putting on a little makeup, walking the dogs (or spending time out in the garden with them), making some dinner, spending time with those we love, enjoying a glass of wine. A little curve ball, so we’ve battened down for a little, it will get better.
Scary stuff when your kid is in the OR, and we like to share, the good and the scary. We don’t push the site, if you’re here we suppose it’s because you might like to cook, and feed and care for others, or enjoy good clothes, or maybe even a little of each.
Linnie fishing, Booie wining
miss you peanut, xoxo
cozy dinner for 3
We’ve ducked out of the office for a little, her sister’s are all in FL, soaking up some vitamin D, and don’t want to leave her home alone. We’re at the table, enjoying meals for three.
Two weekends ago it was ski town, these last days we’ve seen a lot of the couch. 🙂
indoor garden from sister in CA
outdoor garden where we find peace, 2/21/17
Every day dress, a little funk, tomorrow is a new day. xoxo
going with carnations instead of the expected roses, on Valentine’s Day
So, Tuesday night we were cooking up some short ribs, parsnip puree, green beans and creme brûlée. Wednesday night I was standing gurney side as they were about to wheel our eighteen year old daughter, fifth child, into emergency surgery at 10:56 pm.
Oh, how life can change on a dime. Picked this child up after a phone call from the school nurse, drive sixth child out to her drivers ed class and husband comes home to find fifth child on the floor, in pain. Quick trip to the ER, three or so morphine shots later and the late night surgery crew is saying ‘you look way too dressed up to be here’. We were wearing our regular stuff, yet they noticed, and took us seriously. When your kid is being wheeled in for your not quite sure what and you put your faith in the powers above, it’s a good thing to feel good in your clothes.
Wednesday office outfit that went until Thursday late afternoon
Laid down in those clothes, in the surgery waiting room. Slept in those clothes, in two chairs pushed together at the end of her bed. Woke up in those clothes and was thankful for another day, and Tim Horton’s hospital coffee, a breakfast sandwich, and a sour cream donut, we we’re running on empty.
Really, what you wear can speak volumes, oftentimes without you even saying a word. We write here about good clothes, good food, and sometimes about drinking good wine, and if it came down to the end I’d want to be wearing a good outfit, having enjoyed a good meal, and definitely a good glass of wine, all with the people I love, that’s really the gist of us here at every day dress.
That outfit gave me strength. She’s on the mend. xoxo
what we wore on Friday, for four hours at the office, when what we really felt like doing was never leaving the couch
Every day dress, the subtle power of good clothing.
Spent a week on the west coast, San Diego and San Francisco, and now doing the every day on the east coast. Cooking and dressing.
First morning home ran out to the grocery for supplies and Williams-Sonoma for a new knife. That west coast food culture can sure inspire. Not that I cooked any west coast fare, simply saw a gorgeous knife in a wine | home | decor store and wanted to replicate. Would love a full set yet starting slow, kind of like a good wardrobe, one beautiful piece at a time.
cooled coffee, salad dressing, cake, gift, and flowers before cutting
3 small arrangements, black linen napkins
spinach, walnuts (toasted), mushrooms (sautéed), and goat cheese
forgot to garnish with the gremolota last time we made this
it can be a blur, keep calm
bread and butter is love for Ethan 🙂
For husband’s sixty-second birthday again cooked up some Ossobuco, one of his favorites, and the cover cake of this months Food & Wine. I always pretty much read the directions, yet sometimes the following can get a bit blurry. Thought it was going fine yet simply overlooked the first step, to tie the shanks. Oh, well, keep cool and move on. Last time I cooked this off forgot the gremolata garnish just before serving so thinking things kind of even out. It’s food, and we usually get to do it again in about three or four hours.
picked up these little sparkly candles in San Diego
baked the Food & Wine cover
The cake has almond flour, and coconut sugar, and was advised to simply whip the cream with some cinnamon. Tasted the cake, tasted the cream, and then added some good old white sugar and a teaspoon or two of real vanilla.
As for the clothing thing, wore white denim in San Diego yet not in San Francisco, feel the mood. Black denim biker leather in both locales. Once home, after cooking all day in husband’s button down and an apron, slipped on a little one shouldered cashmere number to sit down at the table in.
Every day dress, read the directions, or not.
Couple of footnotes: started this blog five years ago when working corporate, kind of as a recruiting tool. Have since left corporate, yet still styling, so keeping the blog. Professionally we dress women in beautiful clothing, personally we like nice clothes, nice places, and to cook for and feed others. Passionate about all. Spring trunk show coming February 14th to February 28th, I’ll have that little leather biker number in black and pink. Choices. xoxo
