five little things that made my week. 1. vanilla extract. {i don’t know what possessed me, but i had a sudden urge for a dash in morning coffee and i’ve been repeating the move…
Survival Tip #158: Get Stubborn/Find Room. This summer, we finally caved and got a window air conditioner. After the third consecutive June night where temperatures in our apartment were just shy of 100 degrees,…
five little things that made my week. 1. this yellow-colored collection. {an accidental bit of office cheer.} 2. these caramel colored nails. {and the invitation to check out for an hour in this spot.} …
The leaves outside of our apartment window has been reminding me of this same time, last year. I usually relish this kind of memory marking. What was I doing the last time the leaves…
This post is sponsored by Parachute, makers of modern bedding and bath essentials for a more comfortable home. In most New York City apartments, the heat is either on, or it’s not. And when it’s…
We dipped colorful leaves in melted beeswax this weekend. Faye took her Halloween costume for a test-drive, I snapped a few photos, neither one of us upended the pot of liquid wax. Here’s a…
five little things that made my week. 1. this bit of visible mending. {because i’m not sure if i did it “right,” but there was a hole, and now there’s not. and that feels…
We recycled Faye’s red ladybug in March. Five months post-Halloween and she was ready, so we removed the sparkly ribbon, folded the cardboard shell in two, and popped it into our recycle bin. Over the summer,…
#157 Give Yourself a Sick Day I spent much of my childhood engaged in long drawn-out games of make-believe. Some of these games featured bucolic scenarios of apple picking or making feasts of mud…
five little things that made my week. 1. this umbrella. {and a rare moment of weather-related preparedness.} 2. these moody hydrangeas. {for being even prettier all crisped up.} 3. this relocated diaper pail. {because…