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While I love clean perfect modern lines sometimes… I seem to love life when it resembles cracked glass, mixed pebbles and imperfect and scattered wildflowers.
“Gin and Juice” never looked so elegant and pretty!
Thanks to a quick little java applet, you can make an awesome word portrait out of any collection of words that you can copy and paste, thanks to Wordle! Easy to customize the font, colors, placement, word [...]
I made my first batch of VERY unprofessional looking, but oh so yummy, Parisian macaroons last night. I used “gray” almond powder and didn’t add enough food coloring to the shells, so the shells weren’t very green.
I made a mint crème pâtissière for the filler, which turned out quite yummy. [...]
Minus the edging… the blue is all set in for the craft room. I’m really liking how it lights up the room!
I usually loathe the holidays eminent arrival around July in Hallmark stores across the country, but this year, I might be on the lookout for goodies early on. My reasoning?
I want to make something like this for the craft room:
(Berry Bubble chandelier from RianRae)
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It’s hard to resist the deer lamp phenomenon, and I must admit I was pulled into it for a little while. Then, once I found my craft desk table top…. I knew i needed something more black/white… and this little guy popped right out at me!
I think I’ll dub as [...]
I’m not sure that vinyl decorations would work too well on our textured walls, but these plastic flowers might add a bit of fun dimension… especially if I had magnetic paint on the walls!
CB2 is opening up a store in Union Square!!! Be still my beating heart! Now Mr. M can see all of the wonderful items that he’s dogeared in the catalog in person — and perhaps we can narrow down our list of wants to a chosen few items. [...]
I’ve been really really really good about keeping my New Year’s resolution to spend as little money as possible at coffee shops. I’ve only indulged when presented with a gift card (I see you Mr. Peet’s card — staring at me on my desk), and on those rare occasions when the earth literally [...]
Guest room: one bright ROSEMARY colored wall, 3 repainted walls (Dunn Edwards standard color).
Can I tell you how elated I was to actually roll paint on a roller and see the color pop out at me? I think the last time I painted was during the first sorority house remodel (which was better [...]
HOT day. Belgian Waffle. Dirty fountain. Ah…. it was like I was back in Europe yesterday afternoon as I wandered to the downtown farmer’s market. Sadly though, reality sunk in when I had to walk back to the office, but at least I [...]
