The Blue Giraffe

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 –...

As a rogue fly whizzes around our house, I quickly run downstairs to find my old-fashioned, umbrella food tent to protect the cake that I...

We had the plumber over the other day to fix several leaky faucets, and when I called him on the telephone he barely remembered who I...

When my daughter was young I used to pay her ten cents for every dandelion that she picked from the lawn. My complete laziness combined...

I knew I needed to weed the garden and mow the lawn (as well as the twenty-seven other things on my to-do list) but I baked a cake...

I have been getting lots of questions about the Living Room floor that I finished with Safflower Oil the other week, so I thought I would...

Some people wake up noticing shapes and colors. The form of a pillowcase resting against the bed, the taunting remnant of a forgotten...

About six months ago, me and my trusty flip-phone were pushed (kicking and screaming) into forced obsolescence. I had coddled it for...

This week, I was going to try and refinish my hardwood floors myself. When we first moved in, over twenty years ago, there was carpet...

Sometimes, a girl just needs more – more cake, more hugs, more sunshine, more opinions, more coffee, more sleep …. and a whole lot more...

Y’know when we drool over those kitchen makeovers? The one’s where everything looks so neat and organized? Where we wonder if they are...

Someone asked me the other day where they could buy a new dining room set. It confused me for a moment, because we were sitting at theirs...

I remember reading a meditation once, where it said we should consciously uncurl our hands before we go to sleep, leaving them (and us)...

It’s Valentine’s Day, and the supermarket was filled with men  – most of them trying to decide between the red roses, which he thought...

Remember when I wrote about my obsession with Smeg appliances the other week? Well, I was drinking a cup of tea with a friend yesterday,...

With the Winter, comes my slight addiction to Ebay shopping. It arrives in the form of clothes, and I can easily justify buying several...

If you combine my love of retro appliances with a made-up swear word from the future, you get a SMEG. Completely besotted with the word...

Our January credit card bill is here. We wonder how we managed to spend $423. at the dollar store, what made us buy four identical black...