winter – Jennifer Michie

March 1, 2026 / 0 Comments

HELLO, March

Hello, March! I’m not quite sure where you came from? February was a beautiful, crazy, stressful, exhilarating blur of colour. We’re officially at the start of a new adventure and this month, March, we’re going to hope you help us find our groove along this path.

We’re ready to explore more new to us places. We’re ready to keep seeing the golden sunshine bursts of daffodils dotted around, heralding Spring’s upcoming return. We’re ready for long strolls by the river, watching the swans and geese and discovering hidden gems.

We’re ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in new surroundings. But, my Nana’s Irish soda bread will still be gracing our table. It wouldn’t feel like St. Patty’s Day if we didn’t have that. We’re ready to keep cleaning and organising, as we work on carving out a space of our own.

We’re ready to continue to embrace the seasons. I don’t think Lady Winter is quite ready to let go. But, March is supposed to be blustery, a month that blows the cobwebs away, so that everything is fresh and ready for Lady Spring’s arrival.

Welcome, March! We’re excited to see what magic you hold for us as we continue to find our groove to the beat of a new tune.

{Flow No. 5 | 2024 | Young Lee | Pinned HERE}

December 28, 2025 / 0 Comments

The In-Between Days

And now is the time we continue to make merry on these most sacred of days as we soak up as much as we can from the time that is left in this year before crossing the bridge into the new.

And this New Year is going to bring big adventures and a lot of changes for us. So for now, we’re visiting with loved ones, we’re relishing in the quiet, we’re moving slowly and thoughtfully and drinking in all this year has left to over.

We’re cobbling together sandwiches with leftovers. We’re watching old Christmas movies while working on jigsaw puzzles. We’re going on long walks and drinking in the fresh air only to race home for hot chocolates. We’re dancing in the kitchen and making Christmas cocktails.

We’re taking a breath, as we stand on the cusp of what has been and what has yet to be.

{A Long Winter’s Nap | 1956 | Found | Pinned HERE}

December 25, 2025 / 0 Comments

Merry Christmas

🎄❤️ MERRY CHRISTMAS! ❤️🎄

May your day be Merry and Bright! ✨

{Promotional studio portrait of American actor Shirley Jones standing in front of decorative tinsel and holding an armful of wrapped Christmas presents. | 1955 | Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 24, 2025 / 0 Comments

Merry Christmas Eve

The stockings are hung, the presents are wrapped and we are awaiting the magical sound of sleigh bells in the air…

{Marjorie Lord | The Danny Thomas Show | 1960 | The Everett Collection | Pinned HERE}

December 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, December

Hello, December. We closed November on a flutter and have started you with a whirl! We’re ready for all the anticipation and excitement you bring this month. We’re ready for an evening Christmas light stroll, with hot chocolates in hand. We’re ready for frosty mornings outside, while inside we feast on fresh cinnamon buns and hot coffee in the warmth.

We’re ready to finally finish the Christmas puzzle we’ve been working on since last Christmas. This has been a hazy, dazy, crazy year and the puzzle got moved to one side in the New Year and that was that. But with a good afternoon ahead of us and a bowl of popcorn between us, we know it can be completed.

We’re ready to sit and be, basking in the glow of the Christmas tree, while Dean Martin spins on the record player, crooning out a Christmas carol. We’re ready for the annual school break, so that we can soak up each other’s company.

We’re ready for all that you bring in this most hallowed of seasons. Welcome, December, we’re awaiting you with bells on.

{Vintage East European Matchbox Cover | Found HERE | 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}