The Blue Giraffe

...lucky for me, appreciating something beautiful doesn't need words, money, or someone else's approval :-)

As most of you know, my blog has been a bit absent (I say that kindly :-) over the last couple of years, but now I'm happy to say that...

Once, the door bell rang, and I hastily gathered up my mess (you know, those odds and ends that seem to multiply on your dining room...

Like so many of you, the thought of crawling into bed with a pair of freshly-laundered, soft, white cotton sheets at the end of the day...

Someone asked me recently if I could repost this Quick Decorating Idea List for them again (so that they could print it out and add it to...

Just in case you didn’t know, this week (Thursday, September 12th, 2019) brings us yet another round of scintillating Democratic...

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Fourteen years ago, my daughter and I started celebrating Mother’s Day by ourselves. With an emotionally chaotic home life, and a daily...

Hi! I hope you’re all doing well and have had a wonderful summer! Not quite sure how it went so quickly, but it was a good one, filled...

When I got divorced, it was rare. I remember writing letters to my daughter’s teacher’s to tell them about it; making sure that she was...

I wrote this poem six years ago. More of a journal than a poem, it was remembering a time when my daughter was quite young, and someone...

Some days don’t always go as planned. I admit, I have been a bit neglectful (okay, a lot neglectful) with some parts of my life lately,...

So, after last month’s blog, I got a few requests for some decorating ideas – quick things that people can do to cheer up their home...

Some days, I can’t write about decorating ideas, but my head is still filled with observations of life, and the most infinitesimal, yet...

There are a lot of times in our life when we’re told to “fake it until you make it”. I always thought that sounded silly and insincere,...

I never quite understood the use it or lose it expression until I went to do a cartwheel last year in the garden. Overcome by a memory of...

She opened the door, threw her arms in the air, and said, “Here it is, don’t make me put anything on the walls. I hate art!”. It was a...

Joyful and overwhelmed. I never quite knew it was possible to be both at the same time, but here I am. Behind with my blog, missing...

Toby shares the bedroom with me. A kind and lovable, vertically-challenged German shepherd, who doesn’t mind how I decorate, as long as...

‘Tis the season, and if you have a college-bound teenager then you just might be in the middle of your very own personal hell –...