Today’s advent calendar image is super cute! Click on the calendar or here to see today’s surprise.

Want a fun holiday scent in your apartment but happen to be anti-tree? Try making pomanders instead. This easy project combines cloves and oranges to make festive decorations. It’s also a great project to do with holiday visitors. If you have children visiting or friends coming for tea, set out some oranges and cloves for…

It’s getting cold out there! Warm up today with this advent calendar picture! Click on the calendar or here to see today’s image.

I am throwing a holiday dinner party in a few weeks and wanted to make something that was really festive. I came up with a fun idea but I think it may be a little too crazy to work: Serve twelve “small plates” to the guests, each one corresponding to the lyrics from the 12…

Browsing on Fay Cullen, you occasionally stumble across an odd Victorian piece of jewelry. Jeeze, they were weird back then! Some of it is just “eccentric.” For example, this gigantic locket or this John the Baptist pearl necklace. But this Victorian mourning bracelet woven from hair of the deceased person is downright gross. You would…

I am apparently a huge accidental fan of Lotta Jansdotter. The Swedish/San Franciscan designer is almost omnipresent these days! Open Sunset Magazine, there’s Lotta in her cute apartment! Open a present from my aunt in Chicago, it’s Lotta’s post it notes! Shop on Fillmore, look at Lotta’s textiles! That cute store on 16th, featuring Lotta’s…

I hope your weekend was full of Christmas tree decorating, gift shopping, cocktail party chatting and crab feasting like mine was! Click on the advent calendar or here to view today’s holiday image. Trust me, this one is a must see!

Saturday and Sunday’s online advent calendar links are combined into one spectacular weekend image! Click on the advent calendar or here to see the fun holiday picture for December 3 and 4.

Since my apartment is stocked with inherited antiques and I happen to work in an area filled with antique stores, I occasionally have the weird experience of running into my belongings on sale in random places. Like today! On my way to the bank at lunch I spotted these sconces (excuse me “carved giltwood italian…

In the holiday spirit yet? If all this cold and rainy weather in San Francisco hasn’t done it for you already try clicking on today’s online advent calendar. Click on the image or here to see what surprise awaits you today! PS – This image is big enough to work as really nice desktop for…