Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The Strawberry Rhubarb Soother came out of visiting a local distillery, engaged in some sampling, bought a bottle, and returned home inspired. I still had a bevy of fresh...
Charleston
The River Oak Cottage Tea Room at Hopsewee Plantation
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 My anxiety gets the better of me when I am trying hard to plan something special and unique to anything I've planned before, especially when it comes to travel...
Side Notes - A Late Springtime Walkabout in Charleston
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Sometimes, the greatest stories ever told are in pictures. For so many of our readers, spring is just around the corner, but not quite here yet! Please know She...
Visiting Charleston, South Carolina
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Something I am asked about frequently since beginning this blog is how to plan a visit to Charleston, South Carolina. I have been especially surprised at just how many...
The Charleston Farmers Market
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 The Charleston Farmers Market is open April through November, and boasts locally grown vegetables and fruits, locally sourced savory and sweet foods and concessions, and beautiful arts and crafts made...
A Candid Dialog On Food...With Chef and Author Vivian Howard
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 BEST BIRTHDAY EVER – I met my favorite chef and television personality, Vivian Howard of PBS A Chef’s Life. When I learned Vivian was participating in Garden & Gun...
Magnolias
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Magnolias. As always, I look forward to dinner anywhere downtown. I was excited when a great friend of mine requested that her final meal as a Charleston resident (she...
Swig & Swine
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Who knew that growing up a Yankee would, many years down the road, lead to being corrected countless times for 'regional speech errors' upon moving to the great American...
Grace & Grit
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Owner and chef Frank Kline really has something special here. On just about my tenth stop at this place for dinner, I decided to make Grace & Grit among...
A Daytime Voyeur; Glimpses Into Charleston's Hidden Gardens
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 I'm so excited from my walk moments ago that I feel like really sharing today! Working downtown on the peninsula has real advantages if you want to be the...
The Charleston Pearls - A Harbinger
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 I was in the fifth grade when Mom and Dad brought David and I to Charleston, South Carolina for the first time. It was June and it was already...
My Only Zucchini Bread Recipe, And My 'First' Taste of Charleston
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Back in the late 1970s, my parents embarked on what would become the first of many trips over many decades to the city of Charleston in South Carolina. Little...
A Vibrant Mobile Farmer's Market
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 I have few words to describe what a thrill this was, as the images I am about to share tell at least half the story, minus the amazing...
How Very Charleston of You; The Spring Tea Room at Saint Philips Episcopal Church
Be sure to check out the SALES and CLEARANCE items on kitchen, home, and garden finds from my favorite home furnishing, food, and gift retailers 🙂 Among the first things I did upon moving to Charleston back in 2005 was to find a church and people to worship with. I found my family at Saint...
