It took turning 30 to come to terms with the fact that I truly have a melancholy soul. As a child (and my mother can testify to this), my crying episodes would more often than not last hours. Although I didn’t understand how to express it then, I simply felt an inexplicable, deep sadness within me….
Category: Darling Living
Ladylike Thoughts
Afternoon tea and flowers delight me almost as much as throwing on a new dress, or seeing a puppy on the street. Yet at the same time- I’m overly assertive of my independence; and my desire to be my own rich husband sometimes gets in the way of me being a “soft” woman to love….
A Breakfast Picnic
I’ve always thought picnics were darling, but picnics in the early morning hours with fluffy pancakes and OJ are pure magic. While I’d love to to take full credit for this idea, it was in fact, my daughter who suggested it. We woke up before sunrise, made a platter full of pancakes and links, cut up…
Sweet Idleness
Dolce far Niente – “The sweetness of doing nothing”. Such a beautiful concept that Italians welcome into daily living. A concept i’ve been falling more and more in love with in recent days. As a woman in pursuit of making living itself an art, I find myself wanting to live more and more like our…
Darling Memo: First Day of Spring 2020
Spring marks her arrival today, officially. Isn’t a lovely thought to know that nothing lasts forever? “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” There is beauty to be found in every season;…
Everyday is Women’s Day
Every time I blink I feel like I’m losing grip of the little girl I’ve been raising… but gaining in her place a brave and beautiful little lady. It’s funny how time changes relationships. This one most of all I hold so dear in my heart. I was very young when I became a mother,…
The Fluidity of Silk
Watching silk dance in the wind is quite magical. I yearn to be this complete in harmony with nature. With the earth and sky. It’s always little moments like this that remind me that making the most of the magic that is already within and all around us is what life is really all…
30 trips around the Sun
This past January marked another trip around the sun for me.I turned 30 and it hit me hard. It’s a different sensation than what I imagined it would be. I felt a death began to occur within me that day. It sounds rather dark to say that, but I mean it in the most positive…
A Quick Escape to the Texan Wine Country – Stonewall & Fredericksburg
When you live in an ever-growing metroplex and want a small escape from that life, heading into the country is the best remedy. So that’s what I did. Earlier this year I found myself in the Texan wine country, Fredericksburg, and since then I dreamed of coming back with my beloved for a quick weekend…
Peter Pan Family Costume – A Disney Halloween
Happy Halloween! This year for halloween, we went with Disney’s Peter Pan themed family costume idea: Peter Pan Costume: I made Peter Pan Costume by cutting up a lime green polo we found at a thrift store and throwing on green tights underneath. Then tossed on one of my old belts and boots and and…