Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I receive a commission on all qualifying purchases.

I hope you had a peaceful weekend, dear friends, despite the sadness of recent events… Unlike other years, in a matter of weeks our fall schedule has exploded and I find myself making list after list, in an effort to transition our calendar to the busy demands of September, as seamlessly as possible. And it’s been bumpy… After a crazy work week, the weekend was a wonderful time to relax in the garden and tackle some exciting projects: we must rethink some of our garden beds and move some plants around, apply fertilizers, milky spore and mulch, re-edge & plant spring bulbs etc. You know, all the fun gardening stuff that come with the change of seasons…

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn a commission on all qualifying purchases. Thank you!

Thank you so much for your kind notes and DMs, I didn’t mean to stay away for as long as I did but I needed some time off to feel inspired again, to clear my head and to enjoy the last couple of weeks of summer vacation with my girl. But I missed you all terribly. And while my time away from social media has been very productive, I am happy to be back with a number of new projects to share with you over the next couple of weeks. 

Have you ever had a fixation with one particular item you just couldn’t resist buying, over and over again? Seascapes, shells, oil landscapes, books, jewelry, records, botanicals, stamps, board games, or perhaps Manolo Blahniks? Sadly I have such a fixation, and it’s getting out of hand 🙂 It’s not jewelry or expensive shoes (though I love those things, too) – it’s comfortable chairs. Old chairs, new chairs, wooden chairs, bistro chairs, armchairs, antique chairs (my favorite), quirky chairs, free chairs, expensive chairs – I love them all. A well-made and beautiful chair is so hard to come by, and even harder for me to resist it when it does. In fact, this week alone I have found not one, not two, but five chairs. Five!!! This brings the total of chairs we’ve gotten this summer to seven, and we’re running out of places to put them!!! Please send help.  

Happy Friday, friends! It’s the end of a highly unproductive week for this girl: with the three of us at home in between summer camps, dog sitting a pup we absolutely adore (and have a hard time keeping our hands off of), and temperatures high enough to fry eggs on the driveway, working through my to-do list this week has been an exercise in futility. But that’s okay. With all the fun we’ve been having, it’s a miracle I managed to get anything done. But there’s one thing I did get to do, and it is a big one for me – a chore that has been on my list for months now… Is it entirely wrong that I want to brag about it? 🙂