The House

It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

December 17th, 2010

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere I go. Take a look in the five-and-ten, Glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Toys in ev’ry store But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be On your own front [...]

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I’m Dreaming of a White Dining Room

December 2nd, 2010

I’m dreaming of a white dining room over at Family Style today. Lots of ideas. Join me.

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Ace Bathroom Re-do

November 23rd, 2010

Remember I said I wanted to live in the NYC Ace Hotel bathroom? Well, we’re moving that bathroom into our house this weekend. Because nothing says “Thanksgiving” like tearing the walls apart. Right? So far we’ve done this. And this. And this. Awesome, right? I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

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I Don’t Even Know What To Say About This.

November 9th, 2010

So, it’s true. I’ve sorta become a farmer. As I type this sentence, I have 22 different kinds of things growing in my backyard. You should also know that I am someone who cannot keep a plant alive. I’m not sure how the two things live together. But maybe that will explain some things… This [...]

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How to Make a Scarecrow Without Involving Any Money or Actual Skill.

October 12th, 2010

The corn in our garden is starting to grow, so, one morning, I woke up irrationally determined that we needed a scarecrow. True, I’ve never actually seen a bird moving anywhere near this garden, but I firmly believe it could happen. Someday. Because these are the kinds of “ohmygodwhatifonedaythatthinghappened” things that I think about. Regularly. [...]

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Uncovering The Path.

September 14th, 2010

You may remember that last spring, we moved into the house that my great grandmother spent her days in, with the full intention and ambition of loving it back to its glory life of 1925 (but with air conditioning and indoor plumbing). I do realize that last spring was about a million days ago (1 [...]

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Ace Inspiration

August 24th, 2010

A few weeks ago, I helped throw a little get together at the Ace Hotel in NYC. The event was in a suite…which was suhweet…and completely, designingly inspiring. I was most moved by the bathroom though. Wait, that didn’t sound right. Think design. The overall design aesthetics of the Ace are classic modern, sparse, simple. [...]

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Welcome Home.

May 13th, 2010

For a while now, I’ve been talking about Central Texas in general, and Austin in specific. This is mainly because I’ve moved here. I haven’t really admitted that out loud to myself, much less to the entire internet, but there you go. We are moving. We have moved. I’m not sure why it took me [...]

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Hello, Austin

March 9th, 2010

So here’s the thing. We sorta moved to Austin. And by sorta, I mean, basically. And by basically, I mean somewhat. To sum up: none of our stuff is here, but we are. What I’m trying to say is that for the time being, we will be dwelling in and re-doing my great-grandmother’s house.  Technically, [...]

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