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Castle Bluff, 2020 Favorites, Winter

2020 Favorites

2020 Favorites Happy New Year from Castle Bluff! We are staying at a cabin in the woods where the mood outside is matching all my feels about the year we just finished. I am happy to join in the collective sigh of relief that 2020 is officially over. For the final month of 2020, I …

Hawaii July 2019

2019 Favorites

Hello 2020. I’m grateful you’re here. I am already pumped for all that’s coming in 2020. It’s going to be an AMAZING year, I can feel it. But before we get too far into 2020, I want to  I want to take a minute to record some favorites from 2019. So here are some of …

Highlights of 2018

Favorites of 2018

Favorites of 2018 Hello 2019. I’m grateful you’re here. There are so many things I am already hoping and praying for in the year ahead. But before I get ahead of myself, I want to take a minute to be grateful for what 2018 brought into my life. So here are some of the books, …

Tubingen

Five Favorites of 2017

I’m quickly sharing a few of my favorites of 2017 before I’m so far into 2018 that I forget about them. These are some of the books, movies, songs and places that widened my heart in 2017. My Five Favorite Books I read in 2017 The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom White Awake by Daniel …

Snapshots of Tea

Some of my favorite stills to snap photos of in our expat life involve tea. Cups of tea. Teapots. Sometimes flowers. And lots of times, books. We have adopted tea time in Scotland, and it does make the cold climate more bearable to keep a hot drink in your hand as often as possible. Here’s …

Yellow In Venice, Capture the Colour Photo Challenge

Photo Challenge

Photo Challenge Tina from Girl Meets Globe tagged me in the Capture the Colour Photo Blogging Challenge! For the challenge, you have to choose one photo for each color/colour. (I’m feeling schizophrenic about spellings lately.)  Here are the ones I chose: White Yellow Blue Green Red Even though I take a LOT of photos, I …

favorite hand lotion, caldrea herbs of provence, chino house favorites

Chino House Favorites: Caldrea Hand Lotion

In the same way that a pot of soup full of Herbes de Provence simmering on the stove makes me dream of far away countrysides, this Herbs of Provence Caldrea hand lotion is like a little breath of fresh French hillside air. This lotion is all natural and super rich, so I keep it by …

favorite tea, aveda tea, chino house favorites, simple pleasures

Chino House Favorites: Aveda Tea

I could not possibly count how many cups of coffee and tea I have sipped over the last month.  In the very near future I will be taking a hiatus from both (as part of a journey of fasting), the imminent arrival of which is making them seem ever more dear during the month of …

Five Favorites of 2009

Every year I choose my five best books, a few favorites out of all the books I read.  It was hard to narrow it down. So…here goes! Ok, The Willoughbys is a children’s book, but I read A LOT of children’s books so I had choose at least one.  I have made all the adults in …