Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things." ~ Thomas S. Monson Merry Christmas The most Merriest of Merry Christmases my dear [...]
"T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." ~ Clement Clarke Moore Christmas Eve Merry Christmas Eve! I can not believe we are FINALLY here and that Santa! (said in Buddy the Elf's voice, which just so happens to be on as I write [...]
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart." ~ Freya Stark It Is Almost Here I can't believe Blogmas is coming to a close and that tomorrow is Christmas Eve, but I have one last festive What Do I Wear?!?! Blog post to [...]
"Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in." ~ Simon Van Booy A Difficult Time of Year There is no denying this can be a difficult time of year for many people. From the lost of loved ones, to the estrangement of family members, [...]
"Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." ~ Taylor Caldwell Christmas Favorites I can not believe this is the last Friday Favorites of 2019! Perhaps I will do a year cap of all my favorite things, though we only have 11 days left! It is [...]
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" ~ Charles Dickens Christmas Morning Christmas Morning has always been incredibly special and fun. As kids, we would [...]
"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness." ~ Carrie Fisher Old Fashioned In some ways I am old fashioned. Or maybe in a lot of ways. I love giving and receiving snail mail. I use to eagerly check [...]
"It's always a wonderful time to be able to settle down by the fire, enjoy the Christmas tree and the decorations, and just spend time with the ones you love and surround yourself with the people that you don't get to see enough throughout the year." ~ Jay DeMarcus My Own Little Tree My family [...]
"For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus." ~ Chris Pine Traditions While a lot has changed [...]
Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they're the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you're brand means within a T-shirt. Virgil Abloh Graphic Tee Intervention You know that time (and by time, I mean tennis blog posts ago) I said I needed a Pink Lily intervention [...]