Decorate Workshop is the perfect go-to book when you’ve just moved apartments and boom – your furniture absolutely, positively will not work in the new space. A workbook for the decor-obsessed (which OMG I love filling out worksheets!), it’s filled to the brim with color schemes, pattern ideas, space planning, budget tips and even radly*
Happy Friday! Are you painting the town red this weekend? (I’ll be painting my sofa red while I watch old TV and eat takeout.) Enjoy a few great submissions that landed in my inbox this week and I’ll see you back here Monday, OK?: 1. Polka dot wrapping paper! Yes, yes, yes. 2. Patterned raincoats.
The sun may have set on summer months ago, I can’t help but look ahead to the runway shows for Spring 2013. How perfect would this dipped-in-sea-blue maxi from Jenni Kayne be on Santo Stefano Island in Italy? TOP: SOUTH / BOTTOM: STYLE.COM
Happy Friday, friends! Ken and I are headed to our first grown-up party in a loooong time tonight (I can’t wait to don something inappropriately fancy!) – here’s hoping you guys have some festive plans your way: 1. Stunning lace-inspired jewelry. 2. Triangle wall decals = perfection (congrats, Kirsten!). 3. These bookcases are super silly
I’ve mentioned on Twitter a few times that Bee sleeps through the night, and a few of you have asked for tips on how this miraculous event has occurred. I will say that this is the one area Bee has always excelled in, as she started sleeping through the night at six weeks. (My theory
Want to hear a fantastic discipline tip I learned a few months ago? If your kids are bickering to the point of no return, issue a “hand-holding time out.” Sit your kids on a sofa and have them hold hands until they settle down and apologize. The human touch is surprisingly calming, even when you’re
Isn’t it a horrible joke that at the very moment you need caffeine in order to perform basic human functions (here’s looking at you, pregnancy brain!), you can’t indulge in a super mega bowl full of latte goodness? Yes. That is a horrible joke indeed. And now that I’m out of the pregnancy woods but
Happy weekend, friends! I wanted to take a moment before I dive into my normal round-up of submissions and cool links to thank my amazing contributors for helping me run this ship while on maternity leave. You’ll be seeing the last of their posts over the next few weeks as I’m back to captain-ing this