It starts with a sinking feeling in your stomach. The feeling doesn’t care that you have a killer dress on, or that you’…
Flowers
8 Garden Secrets for Making Outdoor Blooms Last Inside
Having fresh flowers in your home or office can brighten up a room literally and improve your mood, too. If you’ve…
A Place to Rest Your Blooms
There are bursts of color extending from delicate stems this time of year. Case in point: Hydrangeas and dahlias are dis…
Biodiversity Represent! Heirloom Seeds and the Petaluma Seed Bank
The more I learn about Monsanto and its seed patenting, genetic modifying and monopolistic tendencies, the more I worry …
Find Happiness in Plants: A Recent Garden Center Visit
The slogan for the gardening center in my neighborhood called Flowercraft is, “We Sell Happiness.” Too true.…
Styling on a Yulestring? 10 Frugal and Festive Fall and Winter Displays
Sure, you’re forced to take down the ghosts and fuzzy spiders (news flash: your neighbors are pissed if you haven&…
Amy Butler Bucharest Bedding Give-Away
We have long sung the praises of Midwestern textile designer, Amy Butler, who introduced an exotic, Indian-inspired orga…
10 Organic Summer Finds for Natural Little Beauties
It’s all about fun in the sun when dressing little girls in the ultra bright and cheerful colors of the season. No…