Your daily dose of Christmas spirit. This is the conversation I’ve had via Facebook Messages with this girl, over the course of a few days. I have loved each dose of innocence and cuteness I get everyday as an emissary for Santa. Nothing like having a conversation with a kid who truly believes you’re an elf.
My Dad gave me an honorary award for these cookies. He said they are the closest thing he’s ever eaten to this shortbread cookie he and my Mom adored during their days in Detroit, before they had kids. I believe he said something about having tried to replicate the recipe, or find a comparable cookie [...]
For writer Gretchen Rubin’s happiness project, she started a blog as one of her work goals, to expand her identity as a writer and connect with a new community. On this blog, over the course of the project, she shared her own Twelve Commandments for Happiness, and many readers shared some of their own. A [...]
These are some corners of my room that I love to live in, and look at. Photographs, fabrics, drawings and corners that truly make me happy, and bring me inspiration– for projects, and for happy days. I love hours spent in my room, doing work or play.
This is part of the Living Atlanta street art series that was done by local artists in 2011, but I have only recently discovered this piece, very close to my office at 34 Peachtree Street. I absolutely love it. So I played with it in Lightroom to my heart’s content, and this is the result. I can’t [...]
Friday Saturday Sunday Then, finally, Dexter on Showtime at 9, one of the best reasons to start a new week. Season 6 is so, so good. I forgot to take a picture because the episode was so good. Happy week, everyone!
In the few spare moments I sometimes have to peruse something that is not project- or homework-related readings, I have been absorbing Grace Bonney’s wonderful new home and DIY and all-around inspirational book, based off the blog she created and edits, Design*Sponge. I told her I love the headboard she made for her own room, [...]