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Seasonal Swap-Out Time!

November 13, 2013

Eggggh, I hate the bi-annual clothing storage swap-out. It's such a pain.

But it's necessary, especially when you live in a house that was built in 1900 (a year during which people apparently did not need closets).

I spent a couple of my housebound hours last weekend going through my closets and tucking all my summer stuff away, and - much more fun - going through the storage boxes that I dragged down to the basement last spring and finding lots of winter-appropriate things that I'm excited to get back into. Some of them I'd even forgotten I owned, which made it kind of like a free shopping spree.

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Art Deco-Inspired Tablescape

November 12, 2013

For dinner with friends who were visiting from the city the other week, I decided to do something different than the vintage-y floral look that I usually go for, and set the table with a mix of black-and-white pieces with gold and wood accents. While this is definitely a different style for me - much more graphic and masculine - it still retains that sort of off-kilter, half-rustic half-elegant feel that I'm always going for.

Here's the inspiration:

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Rugs And An Oops

November 8, 2013

In today's Most Random Thing Ever, I am now completely obsessed with Persian rugs. I remember my mom had an old blue and grey one when I was growing up, and I think at some point she asked me if I wanted it for my apartment, and I was all ewwwww that's so booooooring and oooooold (or something similarly obnoxious).

Oops.

Anyway, I now I regret that statement. Mom, if you are reading and still own the thing: