Jennifer Michie

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April 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, April

Hello, April. You bring with you a long awaited Spring school break and the Easter Bunny too. The light and shadows are already changing. They have been as March was drawing to a close and that will continue to progress since we “sprung forward” this past weekend.

We’re ready for for the fuller days of light you will bring as we truly come out from under the cozy blanket of winter. I watch the light dance around the room in new spots where it wasn’t glowing at that time the previous week. We’re ready for the Japanese magnolias to begin to fully blossom and unfurl their pink blooms. A favourite street of mine is lined with them and they are a glorious sea of pink. We’re ready to dye our Easter Eggs and for the Easter Bunny to fill our basket with chocolate goodies and maybe a surprise or two. 

We’re ready to do more “Spring Cleaning” and tick a few jobs off our organisation list. Slowly and surely we’ve been making our way around the house, deep cleaning and organising and it brings me such utter satisfaction and joy to see a space made anew and refreshed. 

We’re ready for longer strolls where it’s spring in the sun but still winter under the shade. We’re ready to watch the tadpoles grow at one of our favourite ponds. Last week, a number of them had already hatched. We’re ready to drink in all that you have to offer. We’re ready for you, April with arms open wide. 

{Close-up of a “Scotties Facial Lilac Purple Tissue” Print AD | 1961 | Pinned HERE}

March 17, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

May your day be fair and full of green. And may all the golden luck, rainbows and good wishes be with you today! 🌈

{Promotional studio portrait of British actress Joan Collins wearing a printed scarf | 1955 | Photo by Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

February 14, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day

💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗

May your day be filled celebrating L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms. 

{American film actress Debra Paget wearing a green showgirl costume of ostrich feathered hat and embroidered bodice | Circa 1950’s | Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

February 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, February

Hello February, we’re very excited for your coming. For you bring along with you St. Valentine’s Day and a winter break from school which feels luxurious this time of year. It gives way to the opportunity to move more fully to our own beat even if only for a short time. 

We’re ready for our long winter evenings to continue marching on for a while yet. We’re savouring nightfall with our eventide rituals of drinking tea enriched with lemon and honey or hot chocolates studded with marshmallows and watching cozy movies while snuggled under blankets.  

We’re ready for more “breakfast for dinner” nights in which we feast on scrambled eggs, bacon and biscuits or pancakes dotted with blueberries or waffles with lashings of butter and syrup. 

We’re ready to continue to enjoy winter. Slowly and surely the earth is awakening. I see bulbs shooting up with their green heads from the soil and the smell of damp earth permeates the air. But, I’m not quite ready for Spring yet, I’ll enjoy her when she arrives, but I like each season to have its due. 

We’re still keeping our fingers crossed for one snow day in there, where school is closed and we get to stay home reading books and chatting while lingering over a second cup coffee and stopping mid sentence to watch the snow fall and breathe it all in.

We’re ready for quiet weekends mixed in with long London strolls seeing where our feet take us, stopping for coffee and pastries when we need a break to warm up again. We’re ready for all that you bring in this last month of Winter. Welcome, February! We greet you with arms open wide. 

{Walt Disney “Once Upon a December” poster, 1954 | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}

January 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy New Year

May this New Year lay an abundance of love, light and blessings upon your door. x

{October 1950: American model Joan Vohs poses for a new year greetings card. | Photo by Keystone/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 31, 2024 / 0 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve

Here we stand on the cusp of a New Year. So much has happened in these past 365 days and also so little. But it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to one year. However, we stand ready and waiting for what this next year has in store. 

May this coming year hold beauty for us all. Wishing you love and light as we kiss this past year goodbye and open our arms in greeting to the new one about to dawn.

{Hollywood New Year’s Party | “That’s the Tarzan of that day, Lex Barker, with his wife, actress Arlene Dahl” | 1952 | Pinned HERE}

December 28, 2024 / 0 Comments

The In-Between Days

And now we walk in the hallowed ground of the ”in-between” days. The space between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The merrymaking of Christmas has gone by in a flash and now we move with a a slower pace. Visiting with family and friends, watching Christmas movies by the glow of twinkle lights, cobbling together sandwiches from leftovers, while playing board games and going on long strolls with hot chocolates in hand. 

The days are quieter, less hustle and bustle, but oh, so vital to our souls. There is a rhythm and a pace to this space that is all its own.

These days are special, they are our last days of the year as our slow meandering brings us to the bridge we will cross over into a New Year in just a few days. They are a time to be still, to reflect on what has been and to hope for what could be in the future. It is a sacred time, as we wait for what is to come and relish in what has been. 

These days hold a magic all of their own, they hold so little and yet, they hold so very much. We must endeavour to drink them in with full hearts as we mindfully move forward before the flame of this year is snuffed out.

{Retro Christmas tree decorations including popcorn strings | 1979 | “Popcorn is probably the most traditionally American decoration because it’s the only indigenous one”, says Mrs. Henry Lochte, production chairman of the annual Christmas tree exhibit at the Cheekwood Fine Arts Center in Nashville, Tennessee | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}

December 25, 2024 / 0 Comments

Merry Christmas

🎄❤️ Merry Christmas! ❤️🎄

May this day fill your heart, home and table with love, light and peace.

{Full-length promotional portrait of American actor Mitzi Gaynor posing as she decorates a Christmas tree with silver tinsel and ornaments. | 1955 | Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 1, 2024 / 0 Comments

HELLO, December

Hello, December. We’re ready for frosty mornings and quiet evenings where we sit by the glow of the Christmas tree and listen to Patrick Stewart reading from “A Christmas Carol”, with hot chocolates in our hands.

We’re ready for the hustle and bustle this season brings and the moments of stillness as well, which are so very important for body and soul. We’re ready for our first chance to wish someone a “Merry Christmas!”, two of my most favourite words. The thrill that gives me to offer those heartfelt wishes, as there is only a finite amount of time in which to do it in.

We’re ready for weekend rambles and visiting a few Christmas markets. We’re ready to delight in frosted sugar cookies and gingerbread men with currant eyes and buttons. We’re ready for the excitement of peeling back the windows each day of our German Advent calendar to see what awaits us behind our little paper door.

We’re ready to relish in this season as well as this time for reflection of what the year has been and where the New Year may go. We welcome you with open arms, December and await all the delights and blessings that you will bring.

{The Nightcap | Will Bullas | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}

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