Did you know that it's almost Mother's Day? A marketing opportunity like no other that is celebrated all around the world (albeit on...

We weren't planning on taking the tree down until Sunday but it had other ideas. I'd just finished cleaning up from New Year yester...

Nothing says holidays like a couple of polar bears sparring. From the best holiday windows in New York this year at Bergdorf Goodman. The fu...

From the famous Galerías Pacífico , a shopping mall in a Beaux-Arts building in Buenos Aires. More photos of the murals and spectacular glas...

The thing about having your end-of-year celebration at Solstice is you forget other people still have a few days of crazy left before their...

I sent out all the Gingerbread House cards to friends with children and a couple of big kids I thought would appreciate them but secretly I...

There are no good before shots of the decorations and certainly no during photos - too busy greeting, eating and drinking - but sufficient ...

Sometimes I can be a tad sarcastic about life in the 'bay but I can't fault our local firefighters. Knowing we would miss the annual...

Remember this ? Did it inspire you to make your own, knowing no matter how it turned out it could never be as bad as that one. Perhaps you y...

The Richard Babcock designed Possibilitree from DWR: Limited . Only seven were available and they seem to have been snapped up quickly. DW...

Do you think I'll make a better Gingerbread House with this holiday card and its stickers? With luck it may end up like this. Lots and l...

Houseblogs.net is having a Home for the Holidays Contest , with a real live prize, so I was flipping through my photo files to get inspirat...

This afternoon I made Stollen, a non-traditional recipe* without marzipan or glacé cherries, which I hate. I was going for just one loaf but...

Happy Dag van de Sint! Tonight in the Netherlands and tomorrow in Belgium is the time when all good children get their presents fron St Nich...

The first snow of winter. Good thing I spent a few moments yesterday putting out the snow poles. It's too light to plow but the ground i...

I gave my neighbor a huge bag of pine cones from that giant fir tree in the photo, and we clipped some Hinoki (False Cypress) and Holly (in ...