• shake the wintertime blues: museum hop.

    Days boasting wintry or summery extremes are my favorite ones to go museum hopping. Inside the climate-controlled walls of the museum, I can last for hours when I might otherwise succumb to frost-bite or…

    January 19, 2015 13 Comments
  • my week in objects (mostly).

    five little things that made my week. 1. this salad bowl. {filled with a few special toys, it’s been just the thing to help faye learn to balance and sit all by herself.} 2.…

    January 16, 2015 13 Comments
  • pitch perfect.

    This is my desk. It’s wedged into a strange spot in our apartment, next to our closet and a counter in the kitchen that I guess is supposed to house a bar stool, but…

    January 15, 2015 18 Comments
  • our closet.

    When I was 21, I spent a fall weekend babysitting for a set of adorable twins. We occupied ourselves during the day by taking long walks around the sleepy neighborhood where they lived, collecting…

    January 14, 2015 22 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: ten tiny things.

    Ten tiny things we did over the weekend that made our apartment feel fresh and bright and the frigid temps more tolerable. 1. Light some candles. The hardest part about coming back to our apartment…

    January 12, 2015 39 Comments
  • my week in objects (mostly).

    five little things that made my week. 1. this winter scene. {because january should feel clean and bright.} 2. this special chair. {because it belonged to james and now it fits our bug (with…

    January 9, 2015 16 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #116: Make resolutions. Don’t worry so much about keeping them. I love a good list of resolutions. It’s not because I magically think that this will be the year that I make it back…

    January 7, 2015 25 Comments
  • chickadee lane.

    I buy into every bit of fresh-start optimism that January has to offer. To kick off the new year on a peaceful note, on New Years day we went to a park nearby to…

    January 5, 2015 17 Comments
  • my year in objects (mostly).

    twelve little things that made my year. 1. a cardamom cake for the polar vortex in january. 2. a new apartment in february. 3. a deep dark makeover in march. 4. baby prep in…

    December 31, 2014 29 Comments