make time for pesto

There’s something so soul satisfying about pulling leaves off of a basil stem. We’ve been watering those things all summer long and now it’s time to pull in the harvest.
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some new fall color

Back to blue for Fall 14. Wardrobe and weather not quite up to season yet but with a subtle shift in the make-up things feel new. Some new fall color from
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DIY fashion don’t

Yesterday achieved a 75% success rate with some DIY wardrobe work. Reattached original jean hem to two pair of DL Florence skinnies, close to looking like who ever knew. Re-hemmed
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lunch for two, dinner for six

When fashion week is going on in the big city and you claim you’re a fashion and lifestyle blog and you’re home working, you kind of have to default to
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obey all the rules, not

Last week Friday for a friend, a colleague, and a friend and a colleague, agreed to wear some fun new Fall stuff for their Fall Fashion Update. Second son DJ’d,
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gather it in

Day-tripped to the place in the country for a summer’s end picnic in, of course, white shirt, blue jeans. Not ready to wear Fall clothes, yet the summer things feel
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tried and true

Simple post here: while the husband is off in Newport RI and Boston MA getting twenty-something daughters prepped for the new school and work year, we stayed upstate, (teenaged daughters and
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dinner is easy

This time of year, all you really need to do is gather up what’s good and fresh and put it together. First in, Coho salmon, local corn, homegrown tomatoes, done.
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