Cooking on a cast iron skillet can sometimes feel like being in an a relationship with a volatile friend. Most of the time the relationship is lovely and wonderful and then suddenly it sours…
1. these tiny daisies. {for brightening up the place}. 2. this twine. {for appearing just when i needed it}. 3. these red strawberries. {for being grown without pesticides}. 4. this bra. {because without really…
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…
Tip #62: Mop your floors. Friends, spring is finally getting here. I’ve worn sandals, I’ve stood awkwardly close to other people’s flowers and sniffed them, I’ve flung open the windows and planted seeds outside…thank…
Tip #61: It doesn’t matter how tiny your apartment is, if you share it with someone, divvy up the housework. Without going into all the mushy details about how we met on a tiny…
About once a year I go through a fruit smoothie phase. It’s often in the springtime (see here and here) and it lasts for a month or two before I abandon the frozen stuff and head to…
This year I’m wrapping all of my tiny presents in magazine pages. As you all know, I’m the picture of recycling perfection, so I never have back issues of The New Yorker floating around my tiny…
Tip #22: Hold on to what you love, part with what you don’t. when we first moved into this tiny space, we were nervous about which of our biggest pieces of furniture we’d have…
Tip #15: Buy a fan.* Make it one you like. Clean it often.three tips for the price of one.beyond the difficult-to-reach window in our bathroom, we have just one small window in our apartment.…
five little things that made my week. 1. this beeswax candle. {because it was still chilly this week and reading to this guy in the evening felt cozy}. 2. this geranium. {because i’m not…