Christmas Shopping With My Traveling Tote

Hello friends of the Traveling Tote Adventures!  Since last we met I understand that my tote, Miss Rosie, took the opportunity to tell you of our summer travels (here)!  She was so pleased with herself that she then retired for the winter to a life of rest and leisure, and my other totes, Miss Posie and Dot, joined me for…

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Dessert with The Novel Bakers: Forest Feast Gatherings

The Forest Feast Gatherings is filled with easy recipes and simple ideas for entertaining and creating ambience for a party, and includes several menus for party buffet bars, including a Breakfast Taco Bar and a Grilled Cheese Party.  There are also complete menus for different occasions.  The dessert on the Winter Feast menu was so tempting, and I decided it would be easily…

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Polka Dots Alfresco

We’re having weekend guests soon, the kind of friends whom we’ve known all the way back to the days when I might have worn an itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polka dot bikini!  I have long graduated to a one piece with lacy coverup, running to the water and back out again to the safety of my towel.  But I still LOVE…

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Traveling Totes: Miss Posie Shops at Terrain and Juliska

You’ve probably heard that when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, and since it has been very tough to set a pretty table on my deck, or under my pink tree, or down on the lower deck, I decided to brave my driveway (it’s somewhere under that snow) and take my MacKenzie-Childs Traveling Tote, Miss Posie, shopping. I’m a…

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Tales of the Traveling Totes: ‘Twas the Month Before Christmas

’Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the towns, The Traveling Totes were making the rounds. Miss Poppy, Miss Posie, Miss Rosie and Dot Each had an outing to a favorite spot. ************************************************ Miss Rosie was nestled away for the fall but she sprang from her wrappings at my frantic call! She was already dressed in her handles of…

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Miss Nellie Goes to Maine

It’s officially summer for another entire month, and that’s not something we take lightly here in New England.  We know that after the glorious autumn days leave, the brilliant, sparkling snows of winter will descend once again.   So, while I am in the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer mode,  Nellie has agreed to guest host my blog! Woof,…

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