Over the weekend I made a visit to the Nell Hills Briarcliff store and I texted my mom to tell her I was there. She lives in Florida full-time now so she asked me to take some pictures so she could get her Nell Hills fix. Taking pictures of a store might seem odd, but Nell Hills […]
A Nell Hills Visit and Entryway Artwork
July 6, 2015 Filed Under: Artwork, House & Home, Kansas City, Travel & KC
Quotable Friday and Weekend Links: Santa Monica, NYC, and Little Rock Edition
July 3, 2015 Filed Under: Links I Love, Travel & KC
“Our house really is the 6th member of our family. Similar to the generous tree in Shel Silverstein’s classic book The Giving Tree, our home has unselfishly given of itself so that we could fullfil our dreams.” – Brooke Giannetti That quote came from this post at Brooke’s blog, about the Santa Monica house they were […]
Lake Weekend
June 30, 2015 Filed Under: Books & Reading, Life Stuff, Travel & KC
Last weekend Tom and I took Grant and seven of his high school friends to the Lake of the Ozarks for his birthday. Lindsey went too, brave soul. We stayed in two trailers owned by Tom’s mom: boys in one; Tom, Lindsey and me in the other. This is the fourth year we’ve done this. Can I tell […]
Eataly Chicago
June 25, 2015 Filed Under: Chicago, Travel & KC
When Tom and I were headed to Chicago last fall, my friend Lynda, whose daughter lives in Chicago, said to me, “You have to go to Eataly! Emma took me there and I loved it.” How to describe Eataly? The Chicago location (there are also locations in New York, Japan, Turkey, Dubai, and of course, Italy) […]
Christmas at Kansas City’s Union Station
December 17, 2014 Filed Under: Holidays, Kansas City, Seasons and Holidays, Travel & KC
Grant took the train home from St. Louis for Thanksgiving and he said it was so neat to walk from the train and through Union Station all decorated for Christmas. Actually I’m sure he didn’t use the word neat. He probably used sweet or sick to describe it. If you have a teenage boy, you know what […]
A Fall House Walk Through Oak Park, IL
October 17, 2014 Filed Under: Books & Reading, Chicago, Travel & KC
One of the things I wanted to do on our recent trip to Chicago was visit Oak Park, a village ten miles west of downtown Chicago that happens to be where the home and studio of architect Frank Lloyd Wright are located. It’s also the birth place of Ernest Hemingway, and the Hemingway home, the Wright […]
Catching Up
October 7, 2014 Filed Under: Chicago, Travel & KC
I was apprehensive about entering this new phase of life we’re in. Technically our nest isn’t empty since Lindsey moved back home after college graduation, but with Grant, our youngest, off to college out of state, we’ve definitely transitioned to a new place and I wasn’t entirely looking forward to it. I shouldn’t have been concerned. Life […]
St. Louis by iPhone
September 29, 2014 Filed Under: St. Louis, Travel & KC
Tom, Lindsey, and I headed to St. Louis last weekend to see Grant and to attend Family Weekend at Saint Louis University where he goes to school. Friday also happened to be my birthday, and we headed out to dinner at Scape in the Central West End. Tom and Lindsey chose the restaurant and they […]
Mary Carol Garrity’s New Lake House
August 28, 2014 Filed Under: Home Tours, House & Home, Kansas City, Travel & KC
Last September I posted my photos of Mary Carol Garrity’s historic home in Atchison, Kansas (see part one here and part two here). Mary Carol is the owner of Nell Hills and I took the photos during her Fall Open House. Shortly after that I began to hear noises that last year’s Christmas Open House would be […]
KU Football Game Day and Giveaway
August 27, 2014 Filed Under: Travel & KC
Since I know that some Creating This Life readers are in the Kansas City area, I’m popping in quickly to let you know that this week there’s a fun KU football ticket package giveaway on my family finance blog, The Family CEO. The prize is a family four pack of tickets to a home football game […]
