before & after: ted’s bar + cindy’s kitchen

today’s final post comes from a former street hockey teammate of grace’s, designer and builder, ted kilcommons. ted worked on creating this amazing custom bar for the bodega wine bar…
before & after: heather’s chairs

i love, love, love these beautiful chair re-dos from heather at skinny la minx. she has (luckily for us) produced her orla fabric in yardage in a rainbow of colors. she worked with
before & after: karen’s bird bath + jen’s lamp

when the temperature rises, i begin to feel envious of the birds who are wise enough to live near bird baths. what i wouldn’t give to be able to dunk my head whenever i feel like it! bird…
made in the south awards + amy ruppel


my love for the deep south is hard to put into words. having grown up on what felt like the outer fringes of the south, i’ve always felt a desire to spend more time in the heart of…
writer’s and gardening cabins: decorated


i emailed with charlotte rivers yesterday after writing about her beautiful letterpress books, and it lead me to spend most of my lunch break browsing through her lovely blog….
boxsal + creative conference winners

right now it’s so hot in brooklyn that just the idea of a picnic makes me start to sweat. but i have hope that one day soon we’ll see the thermometer dip below 90 again and i can drag ac…
diy project: karen’s coffee can lanterns

the nights are warming up here in northern ca, so i’m eager to tackle this lantern diy project from karen at maggiemakes. named after her adorable black lab, karen’s blog…
diy project: angela adams’ bait bag planters

well, we’ve just passed the fourth of july holiday, and summer is in full swing…where better to look for a project than vacationland? yes, i love you maine! nan at angela adams was…
i love belgium

if there’s one thing a blog can do to make me take notice and become an instant fan, it’s focusing on regionalism. because most of us aren’t able to travel as much as we’d like, we depend…
a trip to the book store (where it’s nice and cold)

lately my brain has been consumed with thinking of locations that have good, strong central air. we’ve already been to two movies this week (knight & day and toy story 3, both fun!) so…