Kate R

You may think you don't like dessert wines, but I assure you, you just haven't had the right one! Or with the right food.

So you want to learn to talk and taste wine like a pro. These are some tools that will help you on your way!

Portuguese white wines from the Vinho Verde region in northern Portugal. You'll find the classic effervescent style alongside still white wine styles that will really make you rethink this region and take it seriously.

After too many surgeries (including a thoracotomy and an open chest surgery), I have severe nerve pain and damage. While nothing will ever make it perfect, these things help when I have bad flare ups.

Get in the mood for cooler weather with these delicious recipes that will get your house smelling divine as well!

These are my absolute essential notions, tools, and quilting machine - they make the quilting life easier!

But seriously, there is ALWAYS a need for more throw pillows. Change them with the season, the holidays and just when you feel like it.

So many wine accessories exist and they are complete wastes of money. These are wine accessories I actually use at my home.

Here is a quick round up of Holiday sewing fabrics, wallpapers and each of these designs is linked to not only buy as fabric or wallpaper but also some pre sewn home goods in case you want to not sew this season!

My favorite cozy mystery, witchy and paranormal and urban fantasy series. I read over 250 books a year, yea, I am a speed reader and book nerd. These are series I read so quickly because I cannot put them down. I add to this list, so keep checking back.

But seriously, curtains make a room. Add any of these gorgeous beauties to your home and you'll never look back.

This is a list of my all time favorite hotels all over Portugal. Every single one of them I will go back to, recommend to friends and time and again sing their praises.

A boring and bland bathroom should be illegal. Make it at least enjoyable to be in there. Add color people, beige, white, grey.. no more!

Fall is my favorite season, these are items I have and love and none will break the bank

You don't need to spend a fortune on French wines to enjoy them. This list is full of “drink now” wines from all over France, red, white, rosé and even delicious sparkling!

These are some of my favorite wine books, from the super nerdy to the learn how to taste style books to war and wine and so much more. These books all have a place in my wine book collection.

Portugal makes some of the best wine in the world and even at their splurge price, they are so much more attainable than Napa and Burgundy. These are wines I gift friends, use at tastings and enjoy myself on those special occasions and not so special!

As a Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivor, I have been asked by countless friends what they should buy friends with cancer. I have over the past 7 years compiled the ultimate cancer patient care package list. This is not taken lightly how much each of these products can help someone's experience for the better.

From Portugal, to baking to southern cooking, these are my cherished cookbooks.

As a Portuguese wine specialist I have hand curated a list of my favorite vineyards and wine experiences in the Lisbon area so you don't have to think twice about where to go.

As a Portuguese wine specialist, I only want you to find wines that will really be enjoyed. I want everyone to love Portuguese wines as much as I do so I have compiled this list of wines under $25 that I have tried, some more than once and love. My goal is to only share wines I would buy my friends!