Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: Making it home

Cozy, friendly, orderly, fun, inspiring. That’s what I want when I walk in the door.

  • You do you

    I’ve always loved the Little Free Library practice, where people build cute waterproof wood boxes with a couple of shelves filled with books that neighbors can take from and/or add to. In our neighborhood there are many. But one neighbor chose a different option, stocking a cute little box with art, not books. It brightened…

  • Seasons change

    The rains have begun in Oregon, and soon the last of the flowers will wrap up their show and bed down until spring. I didn’t want to say goodbye for that long and so have been cutting and pressing a few blooms, mementos of all this year’s sunny garden pleasures. It’s surprising and fun to…

  • Pressed flowers

    The practice of preserving plants by pressing them goes back hundreds of years. I began playing with pressing this spring and am now making cards with the results, which come from our garden. It’s a sweet little hobby. Learning that American poet Emily Dickinson also preserved plants this way and retained them in an herbarium,…