If any flower that here is grown, Or any herb, may ease your pain, Take and accompt it as your own, But recompense the like again; For some and some is honest play, And so my wife taught me to say ~ George Gascoigne Surely, it can come as no surprise that gardens inspire. They…
Garden Love | Gardens in Film & Television
The last few years life have thrown disruptions and life changes at us right around the season when cultivating our garden should have been happening. The first year, I mourned it. The second year, I released it and felt that it was only wise to take the pressure off of us. Last spring I wanted…
Reflections | Little Women 2019
I had just turned 15 in 1994 when the Winona Ryder/Susan Sarandon version of Little Women came out in theaters. My mom, sister, and I piled into the movie theater and from the opening notes, of what to this day, 25 years later, is one of my favourite soundtracks of all time, we were sucked…
Advent | Making Room
And so in the waiting, let us not get so wrapped up in the doing that we miss the joy of the presence and the peace that comes with simply making room for Him. Advent is one of my favourite church seasons. I wished my Sunday school children a “Happy New Year” in class on…
On Sisterhood
I spent last week pulled into a sisterhood so fiercely supportive, loving, and kind that it took my breath away. I have been awestruck by their generosity, encouragement, commitment to growth and to community. Their beautifully audacious boldness to chase their dreams and to encourage others along the way. I have returned home changed in…
Autumn’s Glow
Subtle waves of colour have begun to roll across the landscape and the glow of autumn is warming our spirits as the days grow shorter and the nights grow cooler. I never tire of this season and of this glow. And of the ways that daily, in seemingly imperceptible ways, the colours of the season…
Halloween 2019 | Michael the Archangel
We’ve known that Yuri would be Michael the Archangel for a long time now, perhaps most of this year. However, deciding which direction to take it in was a challenge. We thought about going more old fashioned, more like the typical angelic depictions that you see in art. But then that didn’t seem to fit…
Halloween 2019 | Young Maleficent
Another year and another round of costume fun and photo shoots galore! We fiddled with several ideas before finally landing on a young Maleficent. Pinterest had some great ideas and we went to work on painting wings and designing horns! In the end we are all happy with how it came together, and let me…
Dior Up Close and Inspired
Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness. |Christian Dior| Earlier this month my husband and I celebrated our 14th Anniversary with a little trip to Dallas. We luxuriated in the lovely Fairmont Dallas and spent hours perusing the aisles of bookstores and finding unique places to eat. But we…
Spiraling
Romanesco Broccoli is one of those things that made me believe that it was possible for a right-brain leaning, creative, and literary type like me to become fascinated with, and actively seek out, things like Fibonacci spirals and to see math and physics alive in the world. The first time that I discovered a mesmerizing…
The Bluestocking At Home 