I can’t remember when I first fell in love with Dash & Albert rugs, but I know the infatuation has been going on for several years and I’ve just been waiting for the right moment to act on it. Finally, this weekend, I had my moment. Using this new fabulous blog as an excuse, I bought one of the woven [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Divine Dash & Albert
Posted in Floors, Shop It on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Muting the Mayhem with Music
Posted in Décor, Reinvent It, Shop It on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Although decorating is primarily an exercise in changing the visual of a room, I believe the rest of the senses play an equally important role. The sounds, smells, and tactile experiences of a space can drastically enhance or detract from the way a space, and your activity in it, feels. Case in point: For a [...]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Posted in Grow It, Outside, Shop It on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I yearn to be good gardener, and there’s no earthly reason why I shouldn’t be really. My mother has a prolific garden (there’s such a thing as a gardening gene, right?) and my husband spent every summer in high school and college running a completely legit landscaping business (not just a guy with a mower). But excelling at [...]
Controlling Clutter, Upstairs and Down
Posted in Organization, Reinvent It, Shop It on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Being a family of two working parents and two active kidlets, one of our main jobs in life is keeping clutter under control. Generally I feel like we do a fairly good job of clutter-busting, mostly due to some simple systems we’ve put in place. The simplest of all? A basket that waits at the bottom of [...]
Stylish Food Safety
Posted in Organization, Shop It on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I know, I know, I’ve heard it a million times — when prepping ingredients to cook, it’s really important that you keep your meats, fish, poultry and veggies separate. But honestly, with the mayhem of life, I just can’t seem to remember whether I use my white cutting board for salmon or chicken. And the [...]
SoWa Sundays Begin!
Posted in Art, Décor, Furniture, Shop It on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Eight years ago, when I moved back to Boston from New York, I was surprised to find that there wasn’t an open-air art market (like the ones that you can find every weekend in nearly every Manhattan neighborhood) anywhere to be found. But just a few years later, the SoWa Open Market began to fill that void, [...]
Bag for a Superhero(ine)
Posted in Inside the Mudroom, Shop It on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Given the name of this blog, and my own penchant for accessories, on occasion I may (ok, will) post on a really great product that you might find in a mudroom. As most everyone who knows me will tell you, I am a huge collector of bags — it really doesn’t matter what label or [...]
C’mon Lilly, Light My Fire
Posted in Décor, Shop It on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Everybody needs a little Lilly. In my heyday as a pink-and-green-blooded prepster, I used to pull off the whole Lilly look — patchwork shift, Jack Rogers sandals, patent headband. But even though my personal style has evolved, I can still have a little of that classic Lilly Pulitzer fruit punch-drunk color in my life with [...]
The Well-Appointed Guest Room
Posted in Décor, Reinvent It on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We have guests regularly, but for about 18 months after we moved in, our guest room/office/magazine storage facility was in really bad shape (white walls, hardwood floors, unpacked moving boxes as a bedside table, roller shades that fell down if you tugged too hard). Finally this winter, after my stepmom had put up with our spartan accomodations more than [...]
Patio Vintage
Posted in Furniture, Outside, Shop It on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With the arrival of summer-like weather this weekend and a stream of visitors celebrating kids’ birthdays and Mother’s Day, I was reminded of our lack of outdoor seating. We spent all weekend hanging out in utilitarian and decidedly un-chic foldable chairs — you know the ones I mean – meant for outdoor concerts or trips to the beach, most [...]
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