Category Archives: Design Bliss

Buttah.

Is it me or is there a serious lack of attractive affordable bedding out there? Anthropologie has some good stuff, but can get really expensive really fast. Pottery Barn can be cute, but it can also be super marginal and granny. I was surprised to find some good things from Garnet Hill when I was [...]

I am shocked.

SHOCKED by all of your depravity. Carrot Top?? REALLY!? Who knew all of my readers were a bunch of filthy perverts. I’d go cheese FOR SURE!!! I think a lot of you Carrot Top choosers didn’t consider that maybe society would consider sweating cheese to be an incredible gift/skill. You could be the patron saint [...]

Would you rather…

…Make out with Carrot Top for 27 minutes or sweat cheese for a year? That’s a tough one, no? But our real predicament is a lot less foul and has to do with the seating situation in our kitchen. When Pete and I moved in together, and in Chicago, we had Louis Ghost Chairs around [...]

Caitlyn…This is for you

Look, Caitlyn!  LOOK!! There is a way to incorporate Americana and boy stuff into fun design! Those are Lincoln portraits for GodSakes!  And MAPS!! Lady…We got this! We still have to get rid of Mombo, but otherwise we are good. For everyone else living with manstuffs and inherited collections, check how fierce and flabby-us they [...]

Umph.

Our bedroom is the one room we bought new furniture for in George Banks. We got a new bed. Our old bed was really built for the situation at Mr. Clifton, and so it was time to start over. Ta-Da! Yellow! So we were going to do this fly wall treatment, and we had the [...]

Christmas Cheer

Oh hay there! Four days until Christmas. Today we are discussing the magazine holiday spread. I love a holiday design mag spread. For lots of reasons. Firstly, it tickles me to think of people full on decorating their homes for Christmas in September so that the spread can be shot to run in the holiday [...]

434 Pins Later.

Do you even know how time consuming it is to pin every single file on my computer? I finally got through the majority of my ambiguously named “living spaces” file. 434 pins later. Source: Uploaded by user via Bailey on Pinterest Check it out.

Furbish for Gracie

A few weeks ago I emailed Jamie of Furbish/ISuwannee asking her to please please please furb me up the perfect thing for Gracie Girls bedroom. The sides of her bed were looking a bit sparse and sad. And like the magical wizard of style she is, this is what she proposed. Yes. Look how cute [...]

Go Fig-ure

I have made no secret that I have never been much of a purple girl. In fact, I think purple might be the only color of the glorious rainbow that has not found its way into my home in even the smallest capacity. But I think Mrs. Snippet and Ink might have gone and changed [...]

Two longtime lovers.

I feel like I am setting up two old friends. And I am going to be both the maid of honor and best man at their wedding. I have been saving this fabric as an “I want you in my life but I am not sure what type of relationship we should have” lover for [...]

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