As we approach the holiday season, I’m sure that at some point I’ll write a post about home-related gift ideas. (And you will see it for what it is: my own thinly disguised shopping list.)
But here’s another gift idea: the book, “Can I Just Say Something?” by Sheila Hagar.
I ask you: who wouldn’t want a book with that title?
MOM: stop reading here.
This is a great gift for the women in your life: gal pals, your mother, your grandmother. I already may have ordered several copies, in fact. May have. Mom. In case you didn’t heed the warning above.
Sheila and I met several years ago through bossy color blog. “Met.” Tragically, we’ve never met in person, but we write e-mails and talk on the phone…which is more than I do with some local friends, now that I think about it.
It’s very 21st century.
Anyway, when she stumbled upon bossy color blog, she did a blog post called “Your new best friend.” In it, she wrote:
this blog is like having your best friend come over, drink tea* and walk around your house in her socks while charming your children.
Which might be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me.
But that’s not why I’m plugging her book.
I’m plugging her book because it’s fabulous. It’s a collection of the very best articles she’s written for her newspaper (the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin), and it’s funny, insightful, and sometimes, it’s that word I hate but can’t come up with a more accurate alternative: heartwarming.
As for being house-related and this being an interior design blog, well, the book will be IN your house. By your bed, on your coffee table, and eventually on the bookshelf.
Trust your new best friend and order yours today.
*You may know that I actually don’t care for hot drinks, but I’m sure Sheila was using tea as a metaphor.