This is the kind of weekend I’ve needed: family in town, a very laid back BBQ at a friend’s, and finding the perfect bedside table for less than $40.  Yes, summer you’ve come through just in time.  I can easily (blog) categorize the weekend as: “just life,” “shopping,” and “the calm.”

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Image via Martha Stewart Living
I think the walls in our new apartment (well, and in the old one too– in our building) are plaster and are really, really hard to get nails and/or screws into.  So of course, all I want to do is find hip things to make our walls interesting that require nails [...]

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Just a few things catching my eye around the Internets these days…

Wook Wood Working’s “Modsu Chest” via Etsy
The Saturday Shoppe’s Vintage Blue Seltzer Bottle via Etsy
“Cookie Monster Cupcake” via Nick^D’s Flickr Stream (pictured below)
“The Washing Machine“, a Poladroided photo by Anacaldas via Flickr
Barbie will finally retire, maybe, via Jezebel
Icon Glassware from Simrin Design
Everything in the [...]

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Did a little post-holiday shopping today (it has been unseasonably warm and sunny here lately) and stumbled across this… an inauguration advent calander!  It is, apparently, the product of Chris Whitehead formerly of the Chicago Sun-Times.  You can order them online, but I found mine at the Paper Source in Washington, DC.
We’ve opened the first [...]

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Hooray!  I new all these mornings spent on NotCot would lead me to the most perfect (and different) calander.  I spotted this one, from KrissColorStripes‘ Etsy shop via NotCot this morning.  Like the poster at NotCot, I like that each month has its own color pallate.  I’ve been toying around with doing a variation on [...]

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