The Ribbon.

A long time ago, I believed that I was a ribbon. Two other ribbons held onto me tightly, knotted with love that was both selfish…

My Absolute Mood Right Now…

A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period –When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroadOn Solitary FieldsThat Science cannot…

My Winter Mood…

  If only I looked and had raiment half as fine!!

The First Thought

 Dear Journal, I must be mellowing. I no longer inwardly struggle with this quote. Even if his presence did come on a rushing wind, things…

Spring Yearnings

I usually love winter so very much, but I won’t pretend that it isn’t hard toting two young ones around with you in deep snow…

Liebster Award…

Rissa from Finely Ground nominated me for the Liebster Award!  Thank you, my dear.  🙂  As I wrote in my comment on her blog, I feel like peaches…

Feminine Nature…

“I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued…

L’Occitane and The Scarlet Pimpernel…

It is almost Bastille Day –“the ever-glorious fourteenth of July,” to quote a certain Marguerite Blakeney (1934 movie).  Oh yes, m’dears… there is a Scarlet…

A Very Girl-y (My) Perfume Collection + Reviews…

It’s said that perfume is a unique expression of personality, and of all the potions and elixirs in the beauty world, the realm of scent…