Month: February 2019

• PLACEMAKER by Christie Purifoy

  I am currently reading this beautiful book by Christie Purifoy, Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty and Peace. The book releases in mid-March 2019 and will be a soothing balm for our overly-stressed, multi-tasking souls. Placemakers is for the home lover. The outdoor admirer. The family gatherer. The story collector. For the past decade I…

  Greta Sutherland

  February 24, 2019

  book reviews

  book review, California, Christie Purifoy, comfort, creativity, encouragement, faith, family, flowers, friends, gardening, home, how-to, inspiration, joy, non-fiction, peace, Placemaker, purpose, reading, relationships, retreat

• Presidents’ Day Cabinet

  

  I don’t know about the President’s rotating cabinet, but I am so so so in love with my new China cabinet. Have I mentioned my extreme love for Facebook Marketplace?! I have found so many treasures on that site – and am learning to be patient and wait for the good stuff. A few days…

  Greta Sutherland

  February 18, 2019

  everyday life

  1950’s, antique, California, cottage, Duncan Phyfe, Facebook Marketplace, home decor, Presidents’ Day, vintage

• Calla Lily Ledbetter

  I am probably crazy in the head, but I picked up a calla lily yesterday that called out to me from the plant aisle. I’ve never grown one before. “Try meeeee”, it said. So I gathered it up – along with a bunch of clearance plants that I couldn’t let just sit there, unadopted and…

  Greta Sutherland

  February 18, 2019

  plants and gardening

  calla lily, clean living, gardening, houseplants, inspiration, living with intention, plants, sacred spaces, slow living, slowing down

• Can I tell you about something kind of cool that happened to me?…

  Let me first say that I’m not posting any of this for sympathy or trumped-up praise. Please know that from my heart. There are areas in all of our lives where we feel confident and strong – and other areas in which we lack inner strength. I’m not sure if it’s my personality or the…

  Greta Sutherland

  February 1, 2019

  creative work

  book review, creativity, encouragement, fear, inspiration, kindness, online community, peer review, published author, purpose, reading, sacred spaces, self improvement, self-doubt, writing