Love Notes

Good morning dear readers!   Who's ready to sparkle and shine?   Me! Me!  Me!   I think this holiday season is going to be one for the record books - parties are back, weddings abound, travel is up.  We eagerly await the ability to gather together to celebrate this season of JOY.  (Even if that means spending Thanksgiving with your weird uncle who is definitely getting an ear hair trimmer for Christmas.)  READ MORE

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Thank God all the Halloween candy's gone.  We've turned the corner into November - and with that, just like an NFL ref blows his kick-off whistle, or Wall Street sounds the opening bell, the shoppers' chimes ring out, "Let the holiday season begin!"   I am blessed with a wonderful problem, but it has me in a bit of a tizzy.  READ MORE

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Every Christmas morning for the last 20ish years, I make a point of taking a quick time out from the happy chaos under my own roof, and just for a moment, I try to picture all those little blue and white MCD boxes under all the Christmas trees near and far.    I think how enormously lucky I am to be a part of your wish lists and your holiday celebrations, and how it has changed my life.   I pause and feel how fortunate I am to have a tiny chance to spread a little joy to so many people I know and love, and also to many whom I've yet to have the pleasure of meeting.   My heart overflows with gratitude.

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How wonderful is London's Fortnum & Mason all lit up in red and dressed like an Advent calendar?!  Now if only every window held the perfect fair isle sweater  ...  a girl can dream.

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As I sit at my desk on this weekend morning, the sun rises over our tall black fence and bathes the garden in golden light.   I have coffee and keyboard in hand, but my proverbial pen is stuck.   What, I ponder, could I possibly write that would be worth taking time out to read during this bustling happy frenetically busy season?

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