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January 2, 2025
This & That: January 3, 2025
A handful of books to provide inspiration and ideas for beginning the year well whether you are looking to reinvent, slow down or spark creative ideas in whatever field of work you spend your work week. A new travel accessory that is stylish and highly functional, a new cross-over French/British mystery tv series set in […]
December 31, 2024
A Cuppa Moments w/Shannon, January 2025
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395: 12 Balanced Living Ideas for a Great New Year
Maintaining our balance whether we are holding a tree pose in yoga or riding a bicycle requires dynamic engagement. While the tree pose in yoga may look static, nope, it is actually dynamic as various muscles are engaged. Similarly and more visually obvious is riding a bicycle. We must remain in motion, and a motion […]
December 30, 2024
TSLL’s Top 5 Contentment posts, 2024
The truth is we never stop being a student of contentment once we choose to begin learn what it entails. When we consciously choose to understand what skills to put into practice each day and why we are doing so, we become more and more advanced in the understanding and awareness of how living a […]
TSLL’s Top 5 Garden posts, 2024
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December 29, 2024
TSLL’s Top 5 Style posts, 2024
Style posts, whether they be Signature Style or Style Inspiration regarding their categorization, are one of the most read posts on TSLL by readers, and while my own style is becoming more streamlined, yet also clear in my mind’s eye as I edit out what no longer suits how I live and would like to […]
TSLL’s Top 5 British-Inspired posts, 2024
Pour another cuppa, nibble on one more piece of Grasmere gingerbread and let’s take a ramble over the hill with the pups in the rain! Oh, and make as much time as possible to potter away in the cottage garden. 🙂 Each of these and more remind me of Britain, and why I am drawn […]
December 28, 2024
TSLL’s TOP 5 French-Inspired Posts
France beckons (when does it not! :)), but in the meantime, as we go about our everyday lives, we can infuse what we love about the culture into how we live wherever we call hom. That has always been the ethos of TSLL, and with each passing year, it feels more and more a significant […]
TSLL’s Top Recipes of 2024
Part of the reason I love to cook I will readily admit is because I am not required or expected to cook. Ina Garten expressed a similar sentiment in her recently released memoir that it is the love of cooking as opposed to the ‘have-to’ that is the difference in many ways. And so my […]
December 27, 2024
TSLL’s Top 5 Décor Posts, 2024
“I understood very early on the importance of having a cocoon, an anchor in which one feels good and the need to have a universe that resembles us.” —Sarah Poniatowski, French interior designer One person’s sanctuary might cause another who visits to feel angst or unrest, but so long as we know ourselves and how […]
