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Seven Years
Our first house was ninety seven when we bought it. Our Victorian was one hundred and twenty two. My marriage and corresponding wedding ring will turn ten this year, but it’s also the year my...
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Shoot!
Things are a little crazy here, in the best way. I’m styling a photo shoot here for a magazine on Thursday, which should be a fun feature that we can knock out in a day. Then in two weeks, our house is...
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That’s a Wrap
This has been an excellent week for Calvin to go through sleep regression! You’d think a baby could get his act together by now, am I right? Anyway, we’re on the other side of our big photo shoot. The...
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Oops. I Meant to Do That.
I just got back from a weekend away in San Francisco with an inspiring group of fellow bloggers. While at dinner, a few of us were talking frankly about living with so much of our lives online. “Is it...
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Finding the Balance Between Sponsored and Not
I had something else planned to share today, but in light of recent comments (which were polite and respectful, thank you), I want to let you in on my thought process with a big upcoming project. And I...
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A Look Back at 2015
2015: Year. Of. Many. Rugs. (Kidding! Sort of.) It was also the year my sister got married, I taught at Columbia college, and I did a few TV spots for WGN and WCIU (Chicago stations). I also worked...
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Hello, 2016
2015 felt a little flip-floppitty. Right? All ideas and not enough follow through. Enough of that, I say. Focus! I get super excited at the start of a project. So many possibilities! So many directions...
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A New Look for the Blog
The watercolor flowers in the header have given way to etched clouds and flowering branches. The glittery script is gone, replaced by a storybook title. I had designed the previous blog theme in 2012...
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A Look Back at 2016
Last year, my intention was to focus. To quote myself: I’m entertaining this novel idea. It’s called “start a room, finish a room.” I know! Here’s the thing. Every single room in this house is going to...
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Alternate Picks from The Mine and Other ORC Sponsors
There are two main parts to today’s post. First, I want to peel back the curtain a bit on how sponsorships work for blog projects like the One Room Challenge. And second is to show how even when...
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