Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"There is no more beautiful place to be at Christmas than New York City." — Mike Roth This post contains affiliate links where I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you, but it does help support this blog and my coffee addiction. Thank you for your support! <3 My Favorite [...]
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Andersen Spring Has Sprung Guys, I think finally, FINALLY, Spring is here! While I have been in a battle of epic proportions for all that is good and just to wear Summer dresses and espadrilles, over the evil [...]
“City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, Dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas Children laughing, people passing Meeting smile after smile And on every street corner you'll hear” ~ Silver Bells There [...]
"I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine." ~ Parker Stevenson Quick Geography Lesson Sounding like a local (thank you Tiffany) I had to get my geography in check. Though the island [...]
"How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller Every time I think of Sausalito I think of being tucked away in an Italian village in the mountains. Taking the ferry and crossing the Bay is like entering a whole other world. It really [...]
"I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco." ~ Jello Biafra We woke up on Lombard Street to our first full day in the Golden City refreshed and excited for some art! My aunt, an art connoisseur, was taking us to the San Francisco Museum of [...]
Since the time my sisters abandoned me by going to college and past Rudolph's reigns to me, I have been my Dad's elf. Shopping for my mom from my Dad, because if left to his own devices, he would be shopping the morning of. It is bad enough that some years, in the early days [...]
"Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing." ~ Paul Ryan For the next five days it seems like it is one major shopping event after another. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, stores and people go crazy as they scoop up the deals. While I love department stores like Nordstroms and Bloomingdales. And we [...]
One of the first things I got when I moved to the city was, "You must shop a ton!" Actually nope. I do not. First and foremost a thing called rent and food come first, especially when I first moved there and was living on soup and shitty coffee and my apartment was a hell [...]
Moment of truth: Beach town shopping can be a tad tacky. Gaudy prints, bathing suits galore. way over priced products and materials you know are going to disintegrate upon first wash. (even on the delicate cycle.) I must say I was happily surprised about the shopping in Greenport. It had all the couture of the [...]