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Updated on February 2, 2026February 2, 2026The Fun and the Sexy

February Fashion: How to Dress Both Comfortably and Chic

February fashion includes muted tones, warm hats, and warm chic coats and sweaters as seen in photo collage showing two photos: on left is close-up of young woman in light brown furry coat and soft gray hat holding a rose, and in photo on right is woman in soft gray turtleneck sweater and felt gray bowler hat holding a coffee mug in the falling snow

Certain times of the year intuitively inform how to dress. Climate obviously plays a role, but there are also cultural influences like popular holidays (Christmas …

AI-generated illustration showing five people sitting in a cafe whilst chatting, sipping coffee, reading, and relaxing with a cold rain falling outside the window. Background images to either side of photo show red Chinese New Year lanterns, red Valentines hearts, and red flowers for a February love aesthetic

Updated on January 25, 2026January 25, 2026Craft a Season-Inspired Space

February Love for Self, Family, Friends and Community

If February routinely disappoints you, you either have a bone to pick with the Groundhog or you are holding onto a narrow view of love. …

AI-generated image of a man in a cosy sweater resting by a fireside while savoring a hot beverage in a living room decorated with greenery

Updated on January 16, 2026January 15, 2026Craft a Season-Inspired Space

How to Do January Right and Embrace True Winter Relaxation

Many people find it hard to keep up morale in the dead of winter. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that would begin …

Cosy bedroom with soft lighting (lamp and wall sconce), many leafy plants, natural fibers/materials and textures, and earthy colours with a woman resting on the bed and looking out the window all lend to a hygge home

Updated on December 31, 2025December 31, 2025Making the Home

How to Create a Hygge Home

Hygge is the epitome of tangible comfort. We all need comfort to some degree or another at various times throughout each day/week/month/year, and throughout our …

Top-down view of an off-white faux leather rectangular tray with silver-coloured metal handles on either end resting atop a wood table and filled with a number of small jars of various materials, sizes and colours

Updated on November 24, 2025November 24, 2025Making the Home

Useful and Pretty Items: A Comprehensive List of Quality Household Products

This post showcases products I have purchased from Amazon and which have proven beneficial for me and/or my household. While I prefer supporting smaller businesses …

Close-up photo of the top of a lit beeswax candle in the traditional honeycomb-indented 'rolled' pillar shape. Beeswax candles like these are some of the best clean burning candles

Updated on November 7, 2025April 24, 2025Making the Home

Clean Burning Candles for a Great-Smelling and Toxin-Free Home

Candles, candles, candles. This post is for everyone who loves candles! Candles can be decorative, they can be amazingly aromatic, and sometimes they’re both. They …

The breakfast area viewed from the functional kitchen and dining room doorway. The wood table and chairs are in the left center, under a candelabra-style silver chandelier with small white lampshades. On wall to left hangs seashell artwork collage. Partially in view on floor to left is shoe rack. Barely in view to front right is toddler table. Ahead to right (just left of partially-seen closed pantry door) is another toddler table (where kindergartener likes to sit, instead of the big table) and, behind it, a floor lamp. In front of it (and spanning wall toward left) is wide opening into back living room. Beyond remaining wall space (where more seashell artwork hangs) to left corner is opening into sunroom.

Updated on November 7, 2025March 25, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

Kitchen and Dining Room: Crafting an Eating Space

The kitchen is, to me and everyone else who loves food as much as I do, the most important space in the house. People say …

The sunroom: a white loveseat is positioned between two sides of floor-to-ceiling windows, with two end tables on either side and a tall open shelving unit to the right with more plants. Left of the left-side end-table (painted in multiple bright colours) and airplane plant on top is an heirloom rocking chair with a bright coral throw pillow. Two more bright throw pillows in other colours are on the loveseat. Along the right wall is a Pikler triangle and other toys, in the center of the room on the colourful area rug is a sensory spinning seat, and on the wall opposite the windows is a child's blue desk and chair for schoolwork. Partially in the picture to the left is a small trampoline for sensory breaks, and along the left wall are more windows (and more plants out of sight). Plenty of sunlight, colours, plants, and sensory toys/furniture, as here in the sunroom, are all optimal features for creative spaces

Updated on April 4, 2025March 24, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

How to Furnish a Sunroom and Study as Creative Spaces for Projects, Work, and Play

A sunroom is a designated room with many windows for ample sunlight. It may be an afterthought addition unconnected to the rest of the house’s …

Back living room view of wall with two windows and white console table in between with TV screen on top and diamond-shaped mirror on wall above with a frame of seashells. Strung above the windows and mirror near ceiling is a garland of shiny green shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. A blue evil eye keychain hangs from a black plastic strand of beads connected to the ceiling fan pull cord (out of view). In front of the right window is a large snake plant. To its right, a small white rug lays on the floor in the corner by the built-in bookcase with toys and a lamp on the lower shelves and seashell art decor on the top shelves (partially in view). On the wall right of the right window are two beachy framed photos, and on the wall to the left of the left window is a blue and purple print decoration. Right of the right window also hang bright blue shell chimes. A few toys are on the floor near the right corner. In the left corner is a small end table (out of sight) with lamp on top, and along the left wall next to it is the gray couch and above it the blue tapestry. Most of the floor is covered in a light-coloured high-pile rug.

Updated on November 7, 2025March 16, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

Living Rooms for Living: How to Furnish Home Leisure Spaces

Where do you spend most of your leisure time at home? That is, time spent neither working, cooking, eating, bathing, nor sleeping? When you have …

The children's bedroom (technically the kindergartener's room but where both boys now sleep at night) is furnished with a twin bed and blue tufted headboard on the right, covered in star-shaped throw pillows among other pillows and a blue blanket. On the left is a blue-painted dresser with an airplane plant, lamp, and other decor on top. On the floor in between the twin bed and dresser is a twin futon mattress tucked partially under the twin bed where the toddler sleeps, and is furnished with plush animals, several little pillows, and matching blanket. From the ceiling hangs a dreamcatcher in the center, a fishnet from the corner with nautical relics caught in it, and other nautical decor on the wall.

Updated on November 7, 2025March 14, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

How to Furnish Upstairs: Kids Bedroom, Primary Bedroom, and Office

Let’s go upstairs and check out some of the more personal spaces: bedrooms! In most American single-family homes, the upper floor is where you’ll find …

Celebrate the Dark and the Light