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  • make-believe: kitchen accessories.

    Our kitchen is fine. In fact, it’s more than fine. It’s spacious as far as tiny apartment kitchens go. There are new cabinets and marble countertops and there’s a gas range and a dishwasher…

    August 4, 2014 12 Comments
  • make-believe: oregon coast afternoon

    If there’s one thing that nursing a tiny infant affords you, it’s plenty of forced downtime. And while I admit to sometimes whiling away this time trolling instagram for longer than I should, generally,…

    July 28, 2014 10 Comments
  • of a kind: a spirited giveaway.

    Blame it on my impending motherhood and a greater-than-usual sense that I need to be tapping into my inner Earth Mother and gathering bits of wisdom from the universe, but lately I’ve been looking…

    May 12, 2014 211 Comments
  • alexa’s somewhat less tiny apartment.

    Last week I spent a few days in San Francisco attending festivities taking place around the Remodelista book launch and holiday market, and generally cavorting with the “-istas” who live in California. On one morning,…

    December 18, 2013 4 Comments
  • tradlands.

    I’ve worn this shirt every weekend, all weekend, for the past three weeks. It’s a shirt for living in. It’s thick and sturdy and loose enough under the arms that it doesn’t feel constrictive…

    October 28, 2013 18 Comments
  • natural beauty.

    Face stuff. That’s the term that I use for all the products that I put–or don’t put–on my face. We’ve been over this before. I barely use soap on my face, let alone gunk up my…

    July 23, 2013 31 Comments
  • make-believe: springtime wardrobe.

    I’m a creature of habit. If you’ve been reading these tea leaves for awhile, you know this. I relish in creating rhythms and routines, but in general it doesn’t take much for me to…

    May 9, 2013 30 Comments
  • an herbal foot soak for summer feet.

    Photographing feet is tricky business. Photographing your own feet? Well, that’s some kind of blogger rite of passage isn’t it? While we’re still on the subject of clean floors and clean feet, I wanted…

    May 2, 2013 9 Comments
  • nahla: a beautiful giveaway.

    You probably already know this about me: I’m a beauty aisle hand wringer. I’m the woman in Duane Reade frowning at mile-long ingredient lists and struggling to decode them in search of a perfect…

    April 23, 2013 213 Comments