It’s going to be 102 degrees in Phoenix today, which means that the only thing I want to do is lie on the couch, drinking watermelon agua fresca and looking at catalogs in which summer is pretty and you need a sweater at night. Happily, this behavior means that I’ve unearthed excellent summer finds for [...]
In my mother’s lexicon, we call a gallery wall “The Smithsonian Institution.” The best gallery walls tell a story about the people they surround, like a museum of lives. They can seem tough, but I’ve found nine steps to making a wall pretty and personal. This is the gallery in our upstairs loft, which my [...]
For Christmas, I gave some little people that I love homemade tooth fairy doors. The doors hang on the wall — above a nightstand, say, providing access to coin-bearing nymphs that visit in the night. I love the gift of imagination. The doors are meant for miniature dollhouses, and all you have to do is [...]
My girlfriends and I were in a tiny town in Georgia: Blackshear, in fact. My friend Angela was hungry. And so she popped into a sandwich shop and we both came out with furniture. In the South, they sell antiques at sandwich shops. I bought this old hostess cart for $40 and a lovely Southern [...]
My sister’s baby is named Britain. He’s a munch, and a squeak, and will someone please explain why nonsense is the best way to explain how babies make us feel? I helped my sister get the nursery ready, and we decided to make his (considerable) wardrobe the star. He inherited almost all of it from [...]
There are three phases of Doing it Yourself. This is the story of those phases and me and a certain IKEA dresser that began life like this: And needed to look a little more like a mashup of these. + + (If you want to embark, I obeyed Bri’s awesome tutorial. Hers is the turquoise and gold number [...]
My sister Heidi had a baby boy, Taylor, and then 18 months later (surprise!), there was Landon, and my mother told Heidi to just let go. Two little boys, tiny and beautiful, promised a life of wild things, yes, but also unbridled joy. Landon likes to cuddle, and Heidi is happy. This is his nursery, [...]
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