Among today’s blessings and delights, I can count picking herbs from my own garden and placing them in a vase to add their beauty and delicate scent to the space they will define. Ethereal sage with velvet leaves and the dreamy colour of enchanted mornings or lavender sprigs whose fragrance awakens the soft murmur of […]

I wonder if there are still people out there who make their coffee the old fashioned way, with a bulky machine and a paper filter…waiting for it to trickle into the pot, to purr and beep when it is done and infuse the house with its aroma. A special ritual any given morning. …Well, there […]

What comes to mind when we think bath salts? Soaking in a hot tub at the end of a long day with a good book or just our thoughts for company, letting them drift by like billowy clouds over the open skies? Feeling our tense muscles relax, our clenched jaw soften and turn into a […]

I enjoy making these skincare elixirs as much as I relish smoothing them over my skin and catching the subtle scent of essential oils emanating in the air while I do so. A few years ago, as I learned more about the chemical cocktails that make up about 95 of our skincare and cosmetic products […]