I have a tendency to keep all the extra screws, nuts, and bolts that come with electronics, toys, furniture, etc just in case we have a malfunction in the middle of the night and ohmigosh this thingamajig just fell apart because it’s missing ONE screw but Home Depot isn’t open! So as you can probably imagine, our […]
In my almost-30 years of existence, I have only lived in three areas: Daegu, South Korea; the New York metropolitan area, and Baltimore. Although I love to travel, the thought of moving to a brand-new city terrifies me. So when Michelle offered to do a guest post on her big move from a suburban town […]
I don’t particularly like cooking, and I’m embarrassed to reveal just how many days per week we order in (especially during the latter weeks of my pregnancy). However, home-cooked IS best in my opinion and I prefer my mother’s dishes over a restaurant’s any day. In this piece Susan ponders if women’s careers have lead […]
Our favorite Swedish furniture establishment IKEA has just released a cookbook titled “Hembakat är Bäst,” or “Homemade is Best.” Following the company’s minimalist yet fun philosophy and assemble-it-yourself attitude, almost all the photographs in the book are of the finished product’s ingredients. LOVE IT. Not to mention, photographer Carl Kleiner did a heckuva job composing and capturing […]
First, there were Star Wars Pancake Molds. When people started using them as cookie-cutters the manufacturer decided to release official Star Wars Cookie Cutters, complete with spring-loaded stamps. Now, they have added Star Wars Sandwich Cutters to the mix…encased in a vintage lunchbox-style tin. I have never been one to be decorative with my food […]
My Scratch Map is a must-have for any avid traveler. Rather than using pushpins to mark the areas you’ve visited, the user scratches off the gold foil to reveal a colorful map underneath. While I would love to get my hands on one of these to hang proudly in my office, I would be too […]
Yiying Lu, the designer behind the iconic “Fail Whale” graphic, has just released a beautiful new series of repositionable wall graphics produced by LTL Prints. I think these would make a wonderful geeky addition to a child’s room — don’t you agree? Unfortunately, they would clash horribly with the current decor of our home. Maybe next time. Be sure to check […]
German designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen has designed a clock that seeks to give a physical manifestation to the change of time through the growth of knitted material. The circular knitting machine encased within the clock consists of 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder and a roll of yarn. Moving in clockwise direction, one day […]
I read many years ago that the “proper” way to hang toilet paper is with the flap hanging down — after all, this is how all the best hotels do it, right? As a consequence of reading this vital piece of information, I became really anal about my toilet paper rolls. So anal that if I […]
We purchased our first item for the nursery today: a crib! The Graco Lauren crib in espresso, to be exact. When I first started looking at cribs I was startled at just how expensive most of them were. Especially the minimalist ones with clean simple lines, which is our style. Our own bed didn’t cost $1,000 […]
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