well i do beg your pardon for making you wait, but i had to clear it up with janelle first and get permission to share her top secret ultra famous best-in-the-city better-than-levain chocolate chip c...
its memorial day weekend, the humidity index is something like 3,000% out here, and we done forgot to plan ourselves any exciting escapes. but! i slept in past nine two of the last thr...
i sat on the couch in my pajamas, my hands jammed nervously between my knees, feet jittering. take it now? take it later. take it now? take it later. eyeing the kitchen i took a deep breath. then i t...
back in january, my macbook pro hooked up with my half-unscrewed bottle of diet pepsi and made broken laptop babies. it was terribly romantic for them i am sure, but i felt like such a boob. af...
i feel like i havent sat down to actually write anything in here in a good, long while. whats that about, dave? well, and today wont be the day for it, either. but, eventually. um. soonish. but!...
thanks kaitlyn for the photos! for my final act as high inquisitor of chocolate chips, i decided to throw a little cookie tasting party. you know. swanky type stuff. i was curious to see how some of ...
i cant recall exactly how the idea came up, or who thought of it first, i only know that one day i was chatting with kaitlyn about everything and nothing when suddenly our voices had escalated t...
my friend ashley wrote about the bumper crop of butterflies swarming manhattan (apparently thanks to an impressive amount of caterpillars coming from texas this year), and ever since ive been so...
i generally dont recommend taking on projects with me. nope. i am a starter, not a finisher. i havent the patience for anything whatsoever, but i sure am good at thinking up an idea, slapping it toge...
buster says, "maybe its time you give the amaro filter a rest."
you know whats obnoxious? going to the village with me. when im downtown i have to tell you how much i love it down there about once every block. "ugh i loooove it down here!" over and over a...
oh, mothers day. you sneaky little thing. with every year that passes i feel less and less angsty about mothers day, is the good news. its starting to become just a day again. a day for my own ...
i am so proud to celebrate this mothers day with the wonderful woman here on my left. she is the hottest mama any mama ever had, is she not? look at her! shes a babe. she is also a bangin wedding pla...
happy monday! we have some really exciting giveaways today! our first is giveaway from sponsor chalk white arrow, who is giving away one of her intricately beautiful hand-wrapped hanging light bulbs,...
maxi: c/o ann taylor loft // jacket: old navy // sandals: h&m // big hips: my mama ann taylor loft asked me to style a piece from their current line for a little mothers day promotion on their si...
being henry holbrooks mother means knowing to take a bite of his ham slice before hell eat it, because henry holbrooks mother knows that ham slices have to be "broken in" first. being henry h...
we are so very very sad in our house today to hear the news that maurice sendak has passed. bless that man, he had a huge part in getting me through some hard times. its weird to be back in the head ...
it was a beautiful, misty gray day on the promenade on saturday. you could barely see the empire state building peeking out amid the foggy clouds. our favorite thing to do in brooklyn is stroll slowl...
we loved living in brooklyn. we talk about moving back all the time. sadly, when we lived there in 2005, rents were muuuuch cheaper, and there really isnt much of a rent break anymore unless you get ...
sally, someone is staring at you in personal growth. of all the meg ryan movies, when harry met sally is my second favorite. it is also arguably the most dated, and weirdly, the most obviously on-tre...
a few weeks ago i was invited to a little dinner party down on the south street seaport. i always forget about the south street seaport. but back when brandon and i lived in brooklyn and worked...
the scene: this morning. huck had risen with the sun (at first chirping sweetly from his crib before shouting progressively louder and more impatiently at us). brandon got up with him and fetch...
buster says,"tilt shift is a privilege, not a right!"
after much cajoling (so much cajoling!) i decided to ignore the fact that im horrible at this kind of thing and just do it. a bang braid tutorial! this is seriously the simplest way to get your hair ...
on saturday a couple of my girlfriends came over for some major girl time, while brandon took himself down to macys to find some new work shirts. thats what i said! macys on a saturday! he was there ...
hey henry holbrook! its time for bed! no, not that bed, silly! your own bed, mister! when youre a huckleberry, there is nothing cooler than the big bed, and getting caught hiding under its covers.
in all the world, there is nothing more exciting than when dads in charge of bath time. oh hooray for dads! suds gets sudsier, bath toys make way cooler noises, and all the rules fly right out the wi...
happy thursday! today we have an exciting giveaway from our lovely sponsor, blowfish shoes! one winner will win a pair of shoes of their choosing.to enter, visit blowfish shoes and then leave a...
headband via thief and banditphotos via rebecca baust this afternoon i took a little photo of my stack of purchases as we waited to be rung up at the drug store. did you know? my drug store is ...
photo via rebecca baust molly, from lovely + rust, was so sweet to have me on as a style muse over on her blog yesterday! you can check it out HERE. thanks molly! it was such an honor! :)
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