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    Coffee station.

    I’m a big fan of the coffee station (even though I hate words like “station” in relation to areas of the home—e.g. “gift wrapping station”). Everything all in one place: coffee maker,…

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    Weekend to-do.

    This is an overly-ambitious list of things I’d like to accomplish this weekend. I realize the wallpapering is probably not going to happen, but hey, I can hope. SATURDAY: • Stain the…

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    Friday! Stuff I Tweeted.

    The Twosome Blanket by Vík Prjónsdóttir // From KITKA Design Toronto Uhhh, so…I completely and totally forgot about my supposed “new category” for Fridays that I announced back in May. Like I…

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    Marimekko wants.

    I keep wandering over to the Kiitos Marimekko website and obsessively adding things to my cart and then immediately removing them. Yes, I could just walk up to the actual store during…

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    Color obsession: Hot-orange-red!

    If you follow me on Twitter and you, like me, are generally home alone on Friday nights pretending to have a social life, then you may have read my pleas for advice…

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    Fauxdenza.

    Okay, first of all, I have to apologize to the French—and all other living humans—for unleashing the horrible, hybrid pseudo-word “fauxdenza” on the world. I actually Googled it before starting this post…

  • Sitcom theme songs of my childhood.

    If you were born in the United States in the 1970s and your family owned a television, chances are you got to see some pretty wonderful sitcoms (many of them produced by…

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    Mamma Biscuit as Anna Wintour.

    I asked my friend and fellow book cover designer, John, to write up a little press release about his rescue pug’s big win this past weekend at costume contest in Fort Tryon…