Weekend
via Hawthorne Threads It’s birthday eve! Being 4.5 months pregnant makes for a sobering, low-key fiesta. But I do love presents, I’m like a kid in that way and its… **3 more days until we find out if it’s a girl or boy** I’ve…
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Weekend
Happy Birthday Dan. Just like Grandma’s dollar store card said, you are very special man! We’re headed to the beach for a quick visit this weekend. June is ridiculous for us concerning celebration and its mostly about Dan–his birthday, Father’s Day and…
Oh What Fun!
Doesn’t this look like something that is right up my alley? I’ve actually been watching it for several months now. Here’s the listing in case you’re interested. This is my kind of place… it looks like the ceiling has already been…
Weekend
Martha Stewart, 1961, found via Dwellers Without Decorators My husband and I have decided that we are going to go on a date. We discovered that we talk shop a lot (bills,what’s for dinner,chores) so we need to go out…
Weekend
The gears of life continue to turn even when you are stuck at home with a cold. It will be November before we know it. IS Photography The Midland project is well on its way to completion with the kitchen cabinet…
LA Apt Hunting: Emily
Emily is apartment hunting in Los Angeles. Someone always is around here!? So, here we go. Emily is well aware of the rental market situation, so she fully intends to see what a landlord might do for her in terms…
The Weekend
Ashe County, NC It was a short week, the kind of week I like. We’re hopping back in the car today to travel a short distance to SC to see one of my best pals. My friend lives at the…
The Weekend
Ok so as I said last week, spring is here. I’m definitely feeling oh so glad about that. However, spring has turned my backyard into a wooly, angry mammoth. The fact that last weekend Dan applied pre-emergent crabgrass killer and fertilizer really bolstered…
Stodgy Lighting Goes Lightly
I think its an excellent idea. I did it in my last home – a shiny glossy black over my dining room table, and I think I will more than likely do it to some scale in this new LA…
Austin’s City Wide Garage Sale
I’m very happy to be blogging from Austin, TX this week! I’m here for SXSW with work. I snuck down a couple days early to hang with one of my favorites, Bregan, the Austinite crafter extraordinaire (see her work at…
Walk Through
I stumbled upon Trisha Brink’s home at sfgirlbybay last week. It was her bathroom with the vintage seaside oil paintings casually propped up by the claw foot tub that drew me in. After taking a spin through Trisha’s flickr album,…
Sunday Reading
While eating Cheerios this Sunday morning I was perusing through Elle Decor and realized… In the past two months design bloggers have been turning up in shelter magazines quite frequently. Who’s been popping up? The designs of one of my…
It Takes a Village
It takes a village to raise a little home decor blog… I arrived at my real job this morning, first checking real job email then TEOT mail. I found that my TEOT mailbox had been slightly blown up with loads…
Industrial Chic
Industrial Chic sent us a link to their website where they create and sell some pretty fantastic repurposed furnishings. The pictures of their inventory, past and present, tell the story best. They will ship if you choose that or you…
New York in the fall
image via grillchef99 In October I will be venturing to New York. Maybe I’ll run in to SJP filming the sequel to the Sex in the City movie? I think I knew there was a sequel already but I was just reminded on…