My husband is a veteran of the United States Army, Special Forces, Tenth Group. I told him that it should be called Tenth Unit because Tenth Group makes it sound like a method for organizing a kindergarten field trip, but he insists that they were a group, not a unit. It also makes no sense to me that the first Special Forces group was number fi...

Hip Hip Hooray for my favorite day! Here is everything I’m gushing over for Friday Favorites and the beginning of September. What I am Reading I devoured the latest novel by Jojo Moyes. Remember her? She wrote Me Before You , The New York Times Best Seller which was made into a movie in 2016. Her most recent novel follows Sarah, a teenager livin...

Every now and again we will blog about a featured/favorite artisan that Hummingbird and Holly has the privilege to partner with. It’s a way that we can highlight for you some of the items on our shelves providing you with a little story behind the maker as well as why we LOVE to include them in our gift boxes. We have been working with Jonboy Ca...

Hi, I’m Meg, your Hummingbird and Holly guest blogger. Why am I worthy of guest-blogging, you may ask? Well, I got the day off work and my mother, co-owner of Hummingbird and Holly, told me I could not sit in the family room all day and watch HGTV (House Hunters if you were wondering). So, I could either clean or write a blog post. Let’s face i...

Upon occasion, people will ask me how Hummingbird and Holly got started. Like most career paths, it was a series of events that led me there, and two of those events happened over a decade ago. Before our company was even an idea, two moments pushed me closer to my current path. In 2005, my first husband died.  I know, some of you are like, “Wow...

Summer is here in Seattle and I am absolutely loving it! Everyone knows it rains a lot in the Pacific Northwest, but our summers are spectacular. I love being able to sit outside on my patio in the morning with a cup of coffee and work. Along with the nice weather both Kate and I have all of our kids home from college and summer break is in ful...