This was a busier than usual holiday season with all the kids and spouses (and a new fiance!) home. So I’m just now taking a few moments to ponder some favorite things from 2014. Perhaps you too are finding this Friday more about retrospection than resolutions. If so, you might also be thinking about some [...]
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My Favorite Things in 2014
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Tagged 2014, books, cookbooks, design, movies, museums, music, television, theater, travel, year end review
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Friday Things: The Early December Edition
I love the early days of December when everything seems possible, don’t you? The Christmas carols that irritated me in stores two weeks ago seem festive now. Spending time in the kitchen making artful cookies is creative fun. Dressing up to go out with friends feels like a treat. And I’m confidant that somehow [...]
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Tagged books, Christmas, December, Frozen, recipes
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Thoroughly Modern Amish Quilts
Amish quilts had a heyday in the ’80s and ’90s. Their bold colors and graphic patterns worked well with contemporary interiors and evoked the rural Amish lifestyle that was portrayed so appealingly in Peter Weir’s thriller “Witness” and Sue Bender’s bestseller “Plain and Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish.” In an age of increased [...]
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Tagged Amish quilts, Modern quilts, quilting, quilts, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
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Friday Things: The Thank You Edition
On this first Friday in November I’m thinking about gratitude. Throughout the year I try to count my blessings—sometimes in a daily “gratitude journal” but more often than not by documenting the (mostly) good and interesting things in my life on Instagram. (Thank you, Insta!) In case you haven’t tracked this yet, Thanksgiving comes late [...]
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Tagged daylight savings time, gratitude, interior design, music, recipes, Thanksgiving
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Field Trip: Minted
It’s always fun to take a peek behind the scenes, don’t you think? Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the San Francisco headquarters for the online stationary company Minted. You may remember that I’ve touted Minted’s high-quality papers and sophisticated designs before. No surprise, their offices were just as aesthetically pleasing as their products. [...]
Friday Things: The Halloween Edition
In our new modernist home, a few splashes of orange around the house and a skeleton on the front bench suffice for demonic decor. I’ve been experimenting with deer-resistant plants in the front pots and though several perennials have given up the ghost already the nasturtiums are thriving. Right now a strand is crawling into [...]
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Tagged Halloween, humor, IKEA, interior design, recipes
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AT: Lenzburg, Switzerland + Jugendfest
As you may recall from my Europe packing post, this summer I traveled to Switzerland and Germany. For my inaugural “Away Things” post I thought I’d share some images and impressions of the charming festival I attended in a small suburb of Zurich. Think Heidi meets The Hunger Games. The Lenzburg Jugendfest was unlike anything [...]
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Tagged celebrations, Europe, festivals, Lenzburg, Switzerland, travel
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Friday Things: The Long Shadows Edition
Reading about the young Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, this link to an earlier film about her life appeared. Watching it I was struck by her shy smile, the rushing waters where she lived in northern Pakistan and the inescapable violence that surrounded her. But I was also fascinated by her parents–the never photographed mother [...]
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Tagged Annie Lennox, art, Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize, parenting, relationships, stationary, writing
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Touring the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market with Designer Michelle Wempe
Do you live near a landmark attraction that you’ve never explored? The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco has been one of those places for me. Frankly, I’ve never felt the need to drive into the city to shop for produce since I have a wealth of farm-fresh options right here in the East [...]
Friday Things: The New Sink Edition
No wallpaper decision made yet, but the new sink is in! Isn’t she a beauty? Perhaps you recall this moment of impulse renovation when we ripped out the old odd powder room vanity with no plan for what would take it’s place? Four months later we have new things in the room including floor tile [...]
