“With good basics you’ll have endless options.” What a ride we are on…this roller coaster of crazy pandemic plus our normal hectic schedules and life-events! If anything is needed, it’s a dose of simplicity in at least one area of our lives, that can keep us centered. It might as well be our wardrobe, and […]
Forget OOTD; if there was an official Outfit of the Year, surely it would be Jogger Sets! And although we love getting dressed up and going out looking all cute, we are certainly not complaining about the vast opportunities we’ve had to wear comfy clothes! Fortuitously for Evy’s Tree, comfy clothes is our speciality. Our […]
“There’s no lemon so sour that you can’t make something resembling lemonade.” ~ This Is Us We can complain about the rain or rejoice that everything is getting watered for free. Being positive and seeing every glass as being half-full isn’t something we can always achieve, but there is something about going through difficult times […]
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one every come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Theresa “All you need is love.” ~ the Beatles Can we all agree that our world needs more love right now? With cautious optimism, we are looking forward to celebrating Valentine’s Day already, because we feel like we […]
I am grateful for winter. It reminds us that everyone and everything needs a quiet time. If there was ever a time when we needed a little quiet time, it is at this moment. It seems that our world has been spinning out of control, and we’ve been completely oversaturated with bad news, upheaval, unrest, […]
Ladies, we are at the finish line of this long and winding road called 2020! Looking back, it hasn’t all been bad; the negative often gets magnified while the positive takes a modest back seat, and we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we focused only on the difficult hurdles we all faced. We […]
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” Sonoma County Coast, our backyard ocean and favorite beaches, is a place of serenity and peace. It encapsulates the romantic ideal of walks or lazy hours wrapped in something warm, book in hand, sitting on the beach admiring the crashing waves and possibly snatching […]
Tough times traditionally bring about similar results; we slow down, look around at what we have with a thankful heart, and even embrace some things from the ‘good old days’ with happy nostalgia. We tend to think back of earlier times when things weren’t as difficult…or perhaps when things were also challenging, but we can […]
Raise your hand if you would like to just hibernate for the rest of the winter and wake up when the pandemic is over, life is back to normal, and a magical fairy cleaned your entire house for you while you were sleeping! Unfortunately we can’t clean your house and we don’t know when the […]
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen Life happens every day, the moment to moment mundane or magical that combines to create the rhythm of our existence. When we are in a moment it can see endless, but once it […]
