Faceplant Blog
Friendship knows no boundaries
I recently celebrated a birthday and was overcome with the thoughtfulness shared by so many friends. I was sent online greetings and beautiful hand-made cards and gifts. I received yoga-inspired...
Celebrating women at Mother’s Day
Steketee’s Department store was the ‘fancy’ store where I grew up. Steketee’s represented quality and prestige, and I dreamed of shopping there. Usually, however, we shopped thrift stores and Kmart....
Your heart will never lead you astray. Our fabrics take your breath away.
Rumi said, “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.“ My personal life mantra is a kind-of gruff...
From Madness to Merry: Faceplant Family Edition
By a show of hands, who thought 2020 was hard? And then came 2021! We’ve all faced insurmountable challenges as we navigate the social graces of Covid and cultural...
Pajamas so cozy, they'll make you late
It seems like a simple question: “Is it bad to be late?” For me, the answer always seemed straight-forward. My Dad taught me that if you weren’t 10 minutes early,...
School’s Out for Summer!
Our kids have been challenged to navigate so many new learning platforms this school year. Online learning, then to partial week in-person learning, back to online as soon as there...
How do you design the perfect elegant robe?
My Mom, Alice, had amazing taste and was able to find the gems wherever we shopped. With our limited budget, this was often thrift stores, or when we were lucky,...
Words Talk. Emojis walk. 💖
The value of language to express sentiment has been hijacked by social media acronyms and emojis. And I for one, am on a lifelong mission to preserve language. In...
