This project has been living in my head ever since we bought our San Diego house. Actually seeing it to fruition has been like getting that superhuman energy boost after you kick a bad cold. A few years ago my…
Even more framing
Before I leave the framing discussion behind for good, I should probably show off these last few additions. For some reason my studio ended up having the most artwork of anywhere in my house, so I really wasn’t planning on…
Letterpress Extravaganza
Last year sometime I bought this gorgeous print off of Etsy, and then was bummed out for months when I discovered that it got lost in the move. I so vividly remember carefully packing it in a folder, making sure…
Manly lampshades
I had planned on putting a lot of energy into decorating our bedroom this year, but the move completely upended those plans. Not only because of how it occupied my time and energy, but also for how it sucked up…
Spooky Decor
I went so ridiculously over the top with Halloween last year. Decorations for two full trees had me thinking of Halloween for half of the year. I see Halloween ornaments all over in the stores, but whenever anyone comes over…
Brightening up with new pillows
I was never truly happy with the pillows I did the first time around. I ended up with too much brown in all of them, but the ones I loved the best ended up somehow being the exact color of…
House PAINTED!!
The last unpainted room in this house was the upstairs bathroom. We had friends coming over on a Tuesday, and we finished painting this room at about midnight on Monday. If it weren’t for this show offy streak in me,…
How to hang a row of pictures.
So I had this long narrow section of wall in between a window in the back door. But I also had a set of three wooden panels that used to sit in three wall cutouts in the last house, so…
2010 Year of Pleasures #24
I spent an entire day last week trying to track down lumber options to have my kitchen island custom built, and guess what we found this weekend? It was absolute serendipity. We were making plans to drive an hour a…
Modern Art in Quilt Form
Having so thoroughly expressed my love for midcentury design, it should probably come as no surprise that my favorite painters come from the modern art category. I love the art nouveau work of Klimt, I love the whimsy of late…