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  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #71: Finding a tiny apartment. Here’s something that I’ve never really officially covered but that gets asked of me a lot.   How did you find your tiny apartment?   I think the…

    July 10, 2013 19 Comments
  • flowers and other things.

    This week has been all about lessons in flower arranging and in biting off more than I can chew. Here’s a very late afternoon that proves both things. PS. Thanks to everyone who shared…

    June 13, 2013 7 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
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #52: Choose your computers carefully.As usual, this is less of a tip and more of a conversation starter. As you’ll learn, I’m not very good at following my own advice, anyway.Big ticket items…

    February 20, 2013 39 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #51: Streamline your music collection. Maybe. Growing up my parents had a shiny silver stereo system that took up a corner of our dining room. Below it was a cabinet housing their record…

    February 13, 2013 27 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #46: Clean out the insides, too.I admit that our apartment is super tidy 98% of the time. The other 2% of the time exists between the hours of 7:00 pm and 7:10 pm…

    January 9, 2013 22 Comments
  • thankful for pumpkin bread and you.

    Here, a virtual loaf of pumpkin bread with chocolate chips and a recipe in case you want to make the real thing.But more than that,  a note to say thank you. Last February when…

    November 21, 2012 24 Comments
  • cedar and rose: a sweet smelling giveaway.

    I’ve been all about scents lately. Proof here, here, and here. Beyond just wanting things to smell nice, I’m totally preoccupied with how tangled up with memories scents can be. As a kid, my…

    October 23, 2012 161 Comments
  • life in *your* tiny apartment.

    I received this note, last week. A bedroom dilemma: Hi Erin! I’ve lived in my tiny, 300 square foot studio for about a year and a half. It’s my first time living on my own…

    October 3, 2012 14 Comments
  • life in *your* tiny apartment.

    Last week, I received this note:Hello! I live in a pretty small apartment with my husband and I find that one of our main problems in properly storing our shoes. We each have quite…

    September 26, 2012 7 Comments