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LIFE IN PHOTOS :: Toy Pigs and Cracker Crumbs
It’s rather suspicious when a toddler suddenly becomes quiet. But this quiet moment was only a mild bending of the rules — eating crackers in our bed, reclining on a plush soccer ball, and playing...
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LIFE IN PHOTOS :: Aveline’s Room Tour
Happy Monday, everyone! I’m hitting the ground running this morning. My dear sis-in-law arrives in a few days for a week-long vacation, so I’m whipping the house into shape. As I was tidying Aveline’s...
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MONDAY’S PRETTY THINGS :: Spring Geometry
The calendar is inching toward spring, or at least Easter. The colors in this week’s Monday’s Pretty Things sit somewhere between pastel and neon, and make for an especially cheery combination, don’t...
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LIFE IN PHOTOS :: Refreshed
I’m back online after a grand old visit with my dear sister(in-law)! We were out and about a great deal — I didn’t take my camera, and sometimes I didn’t even take my phone! It was perfect. I’m...
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LIFE IN PHOTOS :: Waking Up
She reminds me of my mother, sometimes. A little dog-lover. She can’t help herself. And she can’t stop hugging dogs, either.Filed under: Life in Photos Tagged: aveline alenka, dog, Home, love,...
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POETRY & WORDS :: What my mother taught me about making a house a home
It was my mom’s birthday yesterday. She taught me — continues to teach me — countless things, among them the simple little fact that everyday chores can be infused with beauty. She has a incredible...
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POETRY AND WORDS :: This Corner of Wednesday is the Most Beautiful Place on...
Outside, the sun shares the stage with the ragged-edged clouds, like an old shadow puppet show. Inside, lego pieces click into each other and climb higher, building a tower which rises higher in...
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INSPIRATION :: 10 Cobalt Blue Patterns
Watercolor via Luli Sanchez Mug via Hilda’s Hem Macaw via Sharon Montrose Anchor rug via Garnet Hill Napkin via Anthropologie Ceramics via Chantal Césure Mixteco bedspread via Maggie Galton Bowl via...
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INSPIRATION :: Before Pinterest, This is How We Saved Inspiration
Remember back before Pinterest, before Tumblr, when inspiration was tactile and we could circle it with sharpies and cut it out and tape it to notebooks and stack those piles of inspiration on our...
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POETRY & WORDS :: When she draws, she flies
This is Aveline’s little art space — our old 1940s table, tucked into the corner of our apartment, with big windows all around it. At any given time, the table is covered with large pieces of paper,...
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INSPIRATION :: Multicolored Chairs
I think these colorful glossy chairs are fantastic! You can see more of Josie Curran and Barnaby Girling’s home (houseboat) here on Design*Sponge. Would you ever consider doing something like this to...
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MONDAY’S PRETTY THINGS :: 5 Housefront Scenes from Around the World
Portugal by Dacian Groza as seen on ish & chi Amsterdam via Wit and Delight Venezia via Jo Han Kim North Wales via Ukkonooa Rothenburg via Benjamin Ruane Even more Monday’s Pretty Things…Filed...
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POETRY & WORDS :: The Oaxaca in my Mailbox
You never know when kindness might really, really touch somebody’s heart. It’s been a long week. But today when I swung past the mail boxes on the way home, there was a package waiting for me. A...
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POETRY & WORDS :: Maybe I’ll Write
“Wonder Aveline the Super Dog” has finally gone to sleep, Josiah is at a Sigur Rós concert, and I am here in a quiet house with a lovely plate of food and silence. Maybe I’ll watch a movie, maybe I’ll...
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INSPIRATION :: A Curated Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Sometimes, I get lost in the tyranny of the urgent. Lost in the chores and the clutter and the cooking and the cycle of washing, drying, folding. I get lost and forget that all around is beauty, even...
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POETRY & WORDS :: Chasing Light with Memoky
I wake up with a list in my head, sometimes, not seeing the light, not seeing the shadows shifting through the water-spotted windowpanes, because I’m seeing all the unchecked boxes. I wake up already...
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