It’s been pretty busy around the Love Forever homestead, too busy for blogging even, which almost never happens. Tomorrow I am flying to Gatlinburg for some reading, hiking and lazing in the country in a cabin with my family. The internet connection is a little iffy so if you don’t hear from me for a [...]

Linda posted this on her blog and invited everyone out there to join in on the love.
Things I love right now:
-Classic apple pie
-acorns and twigs and fall leaves
-scandinavian style and planning my fanstasy european trip
-rumpled linen and thick plaid shantung silk
-wide leg pants, cabled tights and chunky sweaters
-folksy embroidery and applique
-Heidi braids
-homemade marshmallows and [...]

Each week, I anxiously await my weekly podcast of This American Life to download to my itunes. One of my favorite activities is taking a walk and getting lost in the stories they tell; even when I can’t relate to them, I find them totally engrossing.
This past week, they featured a story that I knew [...]

You know how it is: you get something in your head and suddenly you see it everywhere? For a while it was toile and now I think it’s wild and crazy braids.

My friend Lorelei, who always sends me the greatest links, emailed me this print called The Lottery by artist Rachel Bone of Red [...]

There’s something about loose, long braids that seem so hopelessly romantic-think apple red cheeks, long dresses with nipped-in waists and layers of petticoats. A windswept braid is like an E.M. Forster novel: buttoned up and Victorian on the surface but bubbling with desire and passion just below. Or maybe it conjures up the fairy tale [...]

I have to admit that i have been obsessed with food blogs lately, Actually, no, i have been obsesed with food: reading books about it, listening to podcasts about it, eating it even.

This week I am loving piles of different florals of all sorts, both modern…

image from Elle Decor UK
and traditional…

image from World of Interiors

That’s right, I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the fantabulous Sister Diane on her podcast, Craftypod. This podcast is all about craft overload: how to recognize it when it hits, how to avoid it and the all important question, craft overload: is there such a thing as too much of a good thing? [...]

My friend Lorelei sent me this great link from the found photo blog Square America, run by Nicholas Osborn. Recently Nicholas found a cosmetics case filled with photos at a flea market. Most of them were photo booth pictures and snapshots of the same woman over about fifty years of her life. He organized them [...]

The fruits of a recent Ebay fabric splurge are pouring in. I got these gorgeous vintage cotton fabrics in the mail this afternoon. They arrived heavy and shining with starch so I threw them in my new Wonderwash. Now they are soft and whisper thin and blowing in the breeze on the line.
By the way, [...]