About six years ago, I developed an unhealthy obsession with hooked rugs. My husband and I had been invited to spend the weekend at a quintessential Nantucket home, complete with a garden full of hydrangeas, comfy slipcovered furniture and a serene wooden mermaid perched in the front hall welcoming visitors and friends. And on every [...]
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Jellybean Rugs
Posted in Floors, Inside the Mudroom, Kids' Stuff, Outside, Shop It on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Touch of Nautical
Posted in Art, Décor, Fashion, Floors, Outside, Shop It, Walls, Windows on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
About this time of year, the stripes start to send signals… …that spring is coming! I love a touch of nautical in my wardrobe, but I’ve always been a bit of sucker for it in my home too. Remember this post? Last fall, I went to the Brimfield Antique Show with my friend Cheri, and I [...]
Catalog Living
Posted in Art, Décor, Floors, Furniture, Inside the Mudroom, Interiors, Kids' Stuff, Organization, Outside, Reinvent It, Shop It, Tabletop, Walls, Windows on January 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Logic quiz: Poor self-image is to fashion magazines as WHAT is to home decor catalogs? I don’t know either, but sometimes I feel like I have it, whatever IT is. Occasionally I get sort of taken over by staging my house…rolling up the throw blankets and storing them just-so in a gorgeous basket (you’re cold? grab one [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Scale
Posted in Grow It, Inspiration, Outside on August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Image credit: Paige Lewin
Wordless Wednesday: A Sneak Peek
Posted in Décor, Floors, Outside, Reinvent It on August 4, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I noticed that one of the blogs I follow started doing something called “Wordless Wednesday.” Then a few weeks later, another. Call me slow, but apparently this wordless business is sweeping the blogosphere, and as a working mom of two who is attempting to set up house, keep up a blog she [...]
How to Charm a Chain-Link
Posted in Outside, Reinvent It, Shop It on August 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Just a couple of months after my husband and moved into our first home, giant metal fence posts showed up on the side property line separating our house from our neighbor. First, we were concerned — had we done something wrong? Had we offended him? But then we got annoyed. We were first time homeowners, [...]
Butterfly Chairs
Posted in Furniture, Outside, Shop It on July 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know if they’re making a resurgence, or if the great lounge chair from my childhood home just happens to be everywhere I am right now, but Butterflies seem to be following me. First, a month or so ago while passing through Urban Outfitters – a foldable version with a leather cover. Then in a Ralph Lauren [...]
Watering-Can Shower
Posted in Make It, Outside on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Now that summer has finally arrived (better late than never), I’m looking forward to long barefooted days outside. Although the kid-proof rug in my mudspace is terrific for stopping tracked-in dirt, after my boys spend a couple of hours digging in the yard excavating dinosaurs, they’re ready for a wash-down. Rather than giving their toesies a [...]
Goofproof Gardening
Posted in Grow It, Outside on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With crossed fingers that the sun will come out and stay out, I plan to hit my local garden center at the end of this week. I’m notoriously bad about getting plants into the ground early in the season (somehow Massachusetts’ unoffocial gardening start date of May 15 always comes and goes without a second thought), but [...]
French Bull Picnic Set
Posted in Inside the Mudroom, Outside, Shop It, Tabletop on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the weekend I heard a depressing statistic…here in Boston and the surrounding area, we’ve had a grand total of three days of sun in June. Since we don’t, in fact, live in Seattle, I think enduring the ongoing deluge deserves some sort of medal, or at least this sassy and summery picnic set from French Bull. [...]
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