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Duck Boots It’s getting to be that time of year again! How can the weather change and get so cooler in  48 hours? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kiel James Patrick (@kjp) Cute Pup...
Any Day On The Water Is A Good Day Sea Bags are born and as sails and transformed into nautically inspired totes and accessories that bring customers great happiness. Sea Bags Believes That Sails Soak...
The Lilly Essentials The Lilly Essentials The Things You Should Know Love The Sun + Sand, Long Lunches + Short Dresses and Bright Vibrant PRINTS. The Staples The Shift Dress What happens when a lady...
 Those Chino’s…What’s The Story Chino’s…There Everywhere! A Classic! But, did you know these  popular pants have a unique story tied to New England, on Cape Cod? In 1...
Every Day Should Feel This Good It has for Shep and Ian Murray since the Summer of 1998. 18 years ago, these two brothers traded their business suits for bathing suits and stopped wearing ties and s...
02554 Shopping is a Must on Nantucket. We’ve been a BIG fan of  Keely Smith Designs for years.  Keely is a wash ashore from the UK living on Nantucket via London. With A background in Fashio...
Bracelets + Instagram + New England This is the story of humble beginnings. How a boy in high school in Rhode Island started making bracelets for kids to wear under their prep school uniforms.  The...
Serani M Designs Sandra Higgins is an artist. She is also a long time  breast cancer survivor. She started making pink and white bracelets and donated the net proceeds to research. That was when she ...
 Daffodil Festival on Nantucket The Last Weekend in April   The Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce holds their Annual Daffodil Festival. It’s a weekend of events that celebrate the Spring...
The great thing about social media is it can introduce you to a few of your favorite things! That’s what happened to me several years ago when I came upon a  Michael Blanchard  photograph on F...
No one Throws A Party Like The Nantucket blACKbook Here’s a Photo recap of Sip Shop and Celebrate Summer at Pumpkin Pond Farm that took place on August 6, 2014 Check Here for a look bACK on Face...
No One Puts The ACK in NANTUCKET Like The Nantucket blACKbook  Nine Years ago, Holly Finigan stepped foot on Nantucket….And Things Will NEVER be the same for Nantucket!  Yes, Holly worked as...
We found the coolest shop  and it’s on Nantucket! Isobel and Cleo takes residence in one of the many upscale shops that dot the harbor in Nantucket when you get off the boat.  No visit to Nant...
We have visited Midnight Farm several times over the years and loved the atmosphere and mood of the store. This year we found out they moved to a space across the street from where they had previously...
Turns out one of the biggest lavender farms on the east coast is in Harwich on Cape Cod! Cape Cod Lavender Farm is surrounded with 60 acres of conservation land with woodland and walking trails that o...
Vanderbilt’s, World Cup Yacht Racing, the Kennedy’s and more! In 1947,  E.L. Goodwin bought the rights to build the Herreshoff 12 1/2 known  for decades as the preferred small craft of N...
Cape Cod Braided Rug Company In 1910, Romeo Paulus was employed by a shoelace manufacturing company in Plainville, Massachusetts. He realized the same braiding process used in the production of shoela...
 The Vermont Country Store In 1945, Vrest and Ellen Orton printed their first catalog. It was just 12 pages and 36 products, but they mailed it to the folks on their Christmas card list! The rest as ...
That Little Red Star that is Macy’s  logo was first  tattooed on the hand of Rowland Hussey Macy, Sr. (1822-1877). Rowland was one of six children born to the Macy family; one of the first fa...
Nesting Necessities for Inside & Outside Living! Some stores make you feel happy when you walk through them! This is one of them! You always know you will find something special and unique as th...
I LOVE This Pottery About 24 years ago I bought 4 dishes from  Gail at Mill Stone Pottery Back then her studio was in an old mill!  I still have those dishes and not only have they servedÂ...
 Deck Dock Home & Garden    Sunapee, NH One of my favorite stores in New England is Deck Dock Home & Garden in Sunapee, New Hampshire. They specialize in high quality casual and c...
  Vermont Teddy Bears     Shelburne, VT Founded in 1981, by John Sortino who sold hand crafted teddy bears in an open-air market in Burlington, Vermont. Sortino happened upon the idea o...
Cod’s For All Occasions! This is the story of cards that talked to me! Have you ever seen something different and creative and just wanted to embrace it by buying several different select...