April in Transition

Happy April.  Our weather is still very much a study in contrasts — much colder than usual, with sunshine and flurries.  I’ve been jokingly calling it “spinter.”  I suspect this is one of the years we will bypass spring in… Continue Reading

Candles, Perry & beauty blogs

I promised to report in on the Seda France Belgian Marigold candle.  Their description “The bright, sunny yellow hue of the Calendula flower was the inspiration for this crisp creation. Piquant citrus notes of bitter orange and tangerine are combined… Continue Reading

Bois 1920 Come la Luna, Vento di Fiori

Unfinished business — first off, anyone with comments/issues since our WordPress upgrade last week, please go comment on the “Blog Quirks” post before this one.  I wasn’t expecting all the random kind words from everyone, and thanks.  We put a… Continue Reading

Blog Quirks?

Okay, as y’all have figured out, we finally upgraded our WordPress after like two years, and we won’t do that again (I think it will automatically update now.) I know we lost the emoticons and folks seem to have gotten… Continue Reading

One two three shake your body down

I’ve streamlined. I now have under 70 bottles of ‘fume. I tell ya: minor miracle, dudes. And you know what’s crazy about even this low number for a (former?) addict? Most of those bottles are at least half-full. There are… Continue Reading

Alleriges are a job hazard

Hey, it’s spring, and my allergies are running wild thrugh the upper half of my head, which is just superfun.   So I can’t smell a thing, unless it is strong things or bad things. I did get curious when Jessica Simpson’s… Continue Reading

Layering

As many of you may have noticed, or not, Patty just did an upgrade of our WordPress, the platform behind the blog. We´re hoping some of the odd bugs on the site will be less buggy now, and I personally… Continue Reading