First in a series about the power of flowers and the memories they evoke… Ever wonder why those flowers you got at the grocery store the other day smell like the paper they were wrapped in? Yea, so did Erin Benzakein. She runs Floret Flower Farm in the Skagit Valley, a rural haven in the… Read more

Photo by Manuel It is getting pretty ugly in here. Or is it ugly-pretty? I refer, of course, to Freakebana (pronounced “free-ke-ba-na”), the ultra-trendy, a-mug-only-a-mother-could-love take on arranging whatever you like. Stella Bugbee, the brilliant editor in chief of The Cut, coined the term. Freakebana is the Instagram-strong, and sometimes gallery-featured, art created by mixing… Read more