Roughly I scratched the face away. “This is really nothing at all,” I said with a deep sigh. It was a relief for a moment to draw thick strokes with my pencil across the portrait that had been pulled completely out of shape. I…

The words didn't come. I was seriously wondering how this could happen. Just when I had launched my new collection. The newsletter was out. The site was live, it was on Instagram and Facebook. Hundreds of people now read my plans…

“Boxwood grows quite slowly and rarely gets the chance to develop as a tree.”

It was the first sentence that struck me when I did research for the boxwood on the internet. It touched me. I realized that I knew very little…

It was full. Very full in my garden this summer. The battle for light produced long stems. Just like beautiful flowers in all kinds of colors and lots of bees and bumblebees. The periwinkle I'd planted in the spring faded away in…