Home decor lessons I learned from Burning Man
Whatever you may think of Burning Man, the way it creates a There out of Nowhere is truly remarkable… and there are lessons to be gleaned.
Join the urban knitting movement and brighten your neighborhood with plant pockets
Having fallen in love with urban knitting, I wanted to follow up my previous adventures with a project my husband and I can work on together. I’m no master knitter, but the world needs more tiny gardens.
Morning sickness got you down? Here are my favourite places to throw up
Anyway, after discussing barfing at length with a few people, someone brought up the notion of refusing to throw up in a toilet. “Uh, why?”, I asked naively.
Log cabin contemplations: the weirdness of moving back into your childhood home
As I mentioned last week, I’m spending much of this month in the rustic log cabin that my parents built in the mid-’70s. I lived in this house from ages 2-18, moving out 18 years ago — which means I spent roughly half my life living in this rustic log cabin my parents built on Bainbridge Island.
Needless to say, it’s really weird being back.
We used stripes to turn our garage into a beachy Mexican backdrop to the patio
We chose one of the hottest days of the year to paint our garage. And not just to paint our garage, but to paint it with four different colors of stripes.
Lemme tell you, I’ve got stripe-painting skillz.
Use your scanner to make art
Homie Leah had blank walls and a cheap scanner/printer for free when she bought her computer. So she used it to make scanner art.
The ultimate list of new homeowner “must haves” to launch your fresh life
My dude and I just bought a house, and we’re moving up from only owning what fit in our car. Now: what, exactly, will we need?
A hand-embellished retro future apartment on the market in New York
A Jules Verne-meets-Tim Burton apartment in NYC just went on the market. Ogle it and you’ll find a new use for submarines in decor.