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“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” John Updike

My Story .. My story begins in the north woods of Minnesota, on 80 acres in the mid 60’s. My parents were very self-sufficient, hard-working and frugal. When I was young my mother would read aloud the Laura Ingalls Wilder books each winter to my sister and me. Our life was somewhat similar to these…

simplicity .. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci “A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.” Winston Churchill “Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” Frank Lloyd Wright “Beauty of style and harmony of grace and good rhythm depend…

Happy Monday to you all. This is week three of my series introducing you to blogs I enjoy visiting and keeping up with. With my tag line ‘intentional simplicity’ it is perhaps a given that I would be interested in those writing on similar topics to myself. With that, I would like to introduce two…

Yesterday our local design center, International Market Square, hosted a MinneMarket on the heels of the design industries market at Highpoint in North Carolina. Forty showrooms displayed their various lines in the light-filled atrium where eight showrooms also gave presentations of their latest fabric lines. The day began with an engaging seminar given by Annette…

“Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies; Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes.” John Masefield “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.” Anne Bradstreet “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” William…

Happy Monday. As I mentioned last week, I am starting a series each Monday reviewing blogs I enjoy visiting. With that, I am excited to share two more delightful blogs with you today. I thought both of them were so lovely that I fashioned my own blog similarly to them. First I would like to…

Although this is not what I see out my window, spring has at last sprung here in my part of the world and we should be seeing beauties like these in about a month or so .. oh, happy Sunday!

Life is a process and so is creating a home with character, a connection to its environment, and the ability to bring a feeling of comfort to those that experience it .. I wrote those words for an article for Nordic Reach magazine in spring of 2005 but they came to my mind last night…