The Beautifully Mundane

With February coming to an end and March beginning, I am dying for the start of spring.  I find these months of January- March, and the beginning of April, to be so gloomy.  The weather isn’t great, there are no leaves in the trees, no flowers have started blooming yet, the fat hibernating squirrels are still asleep… it just feels blah.  One of the trends that I have seen floating around social media is ‘romanticize your life’.  The idea behind this is to make the little things in life feel and look beautiful.  I go through phases where I romanticize parts of my life but generally, I find the whole thing exhausting and time consuming.  

Needlepoint: A Guide to Beginning Part 1

I wanted to find something that was relatively easy to learn and would provide me an opportunity to create something beautiful while having the chance to shut off my brain for a bit.  Enter needlepoint!  I thought that it would be fun to share and teach how to begin needlepoint, tips and tricks, and finishing options.  So without further adieu, how to begin needlepointing!

Lycette

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of taking a 2 ½ hour drive to West Palm Beach to visit the most adorable needlepoint shop, Lycette.  With it’s charming front window display and pretty light pink walls, this is surely a needlepointers dream!  When you enter the sweet brick building covered in ivy, you are … Continue reading Lycette