On The Menu | Holiday Recipe: Lavender Hot Chocolate

A broken heater in the home and having no clue how to utilize the fireplace for warmth makes the nights that much colder. Hot showers and baths typically do the trick, but as of late, a hot drink, especially one so decadent to have chocolate AND lavender, not long before bedtime has been helping ease the chill.

Visual Vignette | New Season: Green Trimmings & Rustic Brown

And suddenly it turned into December. It seems as if only yesterday it was the night before 2013 and I received my first (and hopefully many more to come) New Year's Eve kiss from M. Now we are all frantically, and happily, putting together décor around our homes, resembling a rich dark greenness and rustic, earthly, brown to celebrate a first Christmas for a few sweet little ones.