I won’t lie, 2012 was the last year I went Black Friday shopping (in person, early in the morning). Then I discovered how much I like sleeping in the day after Thanksgiving and online shopping. Along the way I learned some…
What to Wear to Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. There are few expectations, way too much food, and it kicks off a fun season of parties and getting together with people I don’t normally see regularly. I’m lucky in that my family and…
F&S 2015 Gift Guides
In the past I’ve put together gift guides for all of the people in your life and posted them each here, but this year I’m doing something a little different. I’m putting my gift guides on Pinterest so I can…
Recent Reads: Vol. 3
It doesn’t look like I’m going to make my goal of reading 40 books this calendar year (I’m only at 23 right now), but I’m surprised that I made it this far! 40 was definitely a stretch goal. Primates of…
Introducing…
I’m so thrilled to have finally transitioned my blog from Blogger over to WordPress. At the beginning of the year (yeah, 11 months ago) I wrote out a list of the things I wanted to accomplish this year, from personal…
Clean and Prep for Thanksgiving
My younger sister lives in NYC with her new husband, and they often stay with us during the holidays, which is one of the reasons I wanted to get our guest room all prettied up. (No one wants to stay…