This week in New & Notable Mentions 6/3/23…
Rainbow Corner Accent Wall DIY
Sudden Knee Pain? Here Are 6 Possible Causes and Doctor Recommended Treatments
Summer Entertaining In A Farmhouse
Love cottage style decor? Colorful Vintage Cottage Style
Summer Ready In The Guest Cottage
Want to Feel More Balanced? Start with Your Feet
How to Make Round Quilted Potholders and Free Printable Baking Gift Tags
How to Grow English Ivy Indoors
Simple DIY Flower Arrangement Using Faux Florals
How to Plant and Grow Calibrachoa (Million Bells)
How to Grow, Harvest, and Show Off Garden Peonies
10 Gorgeous Outdoor Tables to Inspire Al Fresco Season
Boom Boom Shrimp
Classic Strawberry Daiquiri with Infused Rum
Shredded Brussels Sprout and Prosciutto Salad
Red White and Blue Cake Recipe
The Ultimate Collection Of Summer Cocktails
Strawberry Cupcakes (from Scratch)
Happy Place
A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.
They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.
Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place.
They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show.
It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?
10 Walkable Cities in the USA for Women Over 50
Birds In Flight
Two estranged sisters reunite to solve the harrowing mystery of their missing mother.
In 1998, the American Jorgenson family had been on a year-long road trip in Australia. One humid, storming night, the mother – Elsa Jorgenson – vanished in an isolated stretch of Australian everglades. Elsa was never seen again.
That night, twelve-year-old Lily Jorgenson was left alone and terrified in the family camper—even her teenage sister Iris is missing. When Iris comes racing back through the rain, she refuses to tell where she’s been. Lily is certain her sister is hiding a dark secret.
24 years later, Lily is a travel writer living a settled life with her son in Pennsylvania, USA. Lily and Iris are estranged, with Iris’s secret having torn them apart. When floods dredge up their mother’s backpack from the everglades, tantalising clues are uncovered, and the police reopen the cold case.
Lily returns to Australia, determined to force Iris to finally tell her secret – and to do that, she’ll have to reunite with her. But when Lily unlocks the gut-wrenching events of the past, everything she thought was true about her family is about to shatter.
4 Things You Shouldn’t Cook in an Air Fryer
9 Patriotic Porches to Inspire You This Summer
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I love, love, love calibrachoa! Thanks so much for additional information about it.
Colorful vintage cottage style…my favorite link! What beautiful, inspiring decor ideas. And that guest cottage in Maine – wow. Thanks for the links, Brenda!
Oh those peonies are are such pretty flowers. I love how big and gorgeous thr blooms can get. They really do look like a romantic flower. I thought thr rainbow room was interesting, especially since it was more neutral looking. I can see how that would be really cute in a kid’s playroom.
Quite a lovely mix of links to follow. My favorite thing though is the quote by Victoria Erickson. Thank you for taking the time to collect all of these articles.
New and Notable Mentions is a great addition to your blog, Brenda. I appreciate the time you spend researching what’s out there for us to peruse. I hope the powers that be in Blogland take note of your readers’ positive regard to these posts as well as the weekly ones. We, your readers, love what you post for us!
I really enjoy going through New & Notable Mentions, there is always something that catches my eye. I’m not really that much into cooking, but I love seeing what people do the insides and outsides of their homes, apartments and condos and all of the other interesting info out there on the internet these days. Today I enjoyed reading about the 10 most walkable cities in the USA for women over 50. Two of my favorites were included – New York and Chicago. I LOVE New York and if I was a millionaire I’d move there in a flash. Alas, I can’t even afford to rent somebody’s closet in expensive Manhattan, LOL! But it is very true that you can walk around New York and I never felt endangered, even took the subway and the regular city buses to get around when a destination was a little too far to walk. I could spend an entire week just exploring the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and then there is the Museum of Natural History, another several days type of museum with exhibits and treasures to explore. I’ve been there twice for a week each time and barely scratched the surface of what there is to see and do. I also love Chicago, which is just a 90 minute comfy train ride from where I live. I’ve been there many times over the years and it never gets old. IMO, it can compete with New York for quality of museums, theaters and great restaurants, for starters. The book about the couple that broke up and is pretending to still be a couple (one last time) sounds interesting, too.
Wonderful places to graze today, Brenda! Thanks for all the time and effort you spend in doing these posts. I too was drawn to the Maine blog as that’s one of my favorite places. And the books look like entertaining and good reads.
Love everything you’ve shared today, Brenda. I’m especially drawn to the summer cottage in Maine. I’d enjoy spending time there. It looks especially blissful.
Enjoy your day!
Brenda, I love your Saturday New and Notable Mentions posts and appreciate all the hours of work you must put in to search for and organize them for your blog. I’m at home most of the time, so it’s like taking a little vacation. Thank you for the treat.
Glad you were patient and let your healing happen with patience. That is so hard to do. Love all the recipes and the reads sound so good. Happy Weekend. Kris
It was wonderful to read your heartfelt words yesterday. I am so glad for you and Ivy to be in such a nice home and neighborhood. Your health is everything and I while like the Dr. said to give it a year which sounded and felt like forever, you are getting around better. Glad your garden is fixed the way you want it so you can enjoy it all season. Looks like another great batch of interesting reads. (For later this evening!) I always check in early then I hang clothes and putter in the garden! You know how it is! The farmer’s markets and yard sales are enticing but I’ll pass. I do my little bit of running errands during the week and try to stay home where all is right in my world on the weekends. I have been wanting to do a declutter and I have started with switching out silk flower arrangements with live plants. I have been taking my time washing the fairy sprinkles (dust) off and I will see what doesn’t make the cut when they are all washed and ready to be sorted. Always something to keep you busy. Have a great weekend.