Turn of the century Thonet and Hudsons Bay chairs available in the shopIn a given day I can generate about a billion new business and creative ideas. Most of them are crazy, and its impossible ...
Sorry the Haus has been so quiet! Theres the usual intense internal dialogue going about some major things...Ive been a real Thinker Thinkerton over here, but have felt much more private latel...
Have you noticed that vintage stuff travels in packs? Some weeks Im up to my armpits in lamp after beautiful lamp. Some weeks everything is marble. This week, the vintage world is t...
Allow me first to register my discontent with the new Blogger format. I dont recognize ANYTHING. It took me half an hour to click on the right symbol to compose a new post. I feel l...
Something funny has begun to happen to me.Ive never been the most physical of people. I dont enjoy being out of breath and in pain, and I hate the gym with a passion. When I go inside, I ...
Dusty photo of Eiffel Tower, 2003I dont remember anything else about that day.Deranged by the time change, we probably overslept and then couldnt get a bite of breakfast in any of the old restaurants...
Heather shares her awesome eye of newt recipe with Bianca, Alex, and Jennie!I nearly poked her in the face to make sure she was real.But I didnt. I behaved *pretty* normally when I ran into one of my...
Im so excited. I scored tickets to the stage version of E.M. Forsters A Room With a View tonight!Im going with my best cousin Jess, with whom I watched the movie version every weekend for about six s...
Get a load of this amazing dress and shoe combination on the right. I feel pretty certain that if this outfit were available today, it would be from some super-elite designer label (and maybe still n...
Super dorky, I know. But at least give me some credit for not writing it in the sand and taking a picture. Maybe its a little tacky to post a bunch of family vacation photos in a public forum. Its li...
If this was a postcard, it would read, "Im not coming back. Dont try to find me."
I spent the morning with my grandma.7,000 boys went down with the Arizona, she said. Your grandfather wanted me to see it. To see my reaction, she said. That was the first time I went to Hawaii. I di...
I tripped and fell hard over these folks while researching farmers markets on the North Shore. To be honest I have mixed feelings about rejecting society and choosing a nomadic existence (where child...
Yuck, today the raging hail storm that swept Southern California has turned into the ugly grey weather equivalent of post-nasal drip. This seems like a good day to tell you that in a few days, we wil...
Not for realz, yo! My kids are sick. Otherwise, YEAH I would hop a red eye with you! Get some bangers n mash, molest some Queens guard guys, hang out in some red telephone booths, meet up with Hugh G...
Hey, look at me being a man of few words! I think we can all use a break from my soul-searching, no?I love each of these pieces more than the last. Get em while theyre hot and fresh in the shop.
..................The shop sure is looking pretty today!
photo by Dave BeckermanWhile theres a bit of a deep winter lull in sales, Ive been turning my attention to other things. One is cooking dinners that involve more than three ingredients (two of which ...
Oh faceless lady, where did you get your cool clothes? Not talking, huh? What a snob.If this outfit doesnt say "creative mom who just might have a blog on the side" then I dont know what does...
So my 37th year of life is coming to a close in a few months. Wow, that sounds so much sadder than it really is! Ive always heard women say that they liked their 30s but really came into their own in...
A wholehearted product recommend from yours truly. I just came home from picking this guy up. I had to have a bunch of girls dig through the stockroom to find me one, but I would not (let them) give ...
..................Three lovely and unique pieces in the shop now:A completely refinished/rebuilt/reupholster ed Milo Baughman recliner in creamy white:A fantastic dark walnut modular piece with an ext...
......................Its the iconic modernist fireplace, right?I know if I was building or remodeling a Mid Century home, one of these would go smack in the middle and Id build everything else aroun...
Look, we spend most of our lives trying to avoid embarrassment. I say, we have better ways to spend our time, so lets not pretend. We are all tards in our own way; messed up, broken, neurotic, one fo...
Not to do everything you planned to do today, and at least one thing you didnt.Dont grow old and orderly and silence the wonders of the universe.Break one of your own rules, or one of theirs. Make su...
Its just not me.So follow me on Twitter, where I:Discuss my familys symphonic fart performances (and now from the horn section!), dismantle the semantic content on tampon packaging, and generally int...
Since lifting this sofa like a big dummy, half my body came painfully unhinged from the rest of my body. But that didnt stop me, no sir, from having four teenage boys over. They ate all my food and w...
In my life? My out-of-focus photography? To my excessive sweating problem? All of the above?Yes, probably.But really I just wanted to talk about goals and avoid the cliche of made-to-be-broken "r...
Is it normal to get so excited about ordering one old, used pillow? Probably not. I cant wait to see how it looks on my new (ratty old) black leather Barcelona chair (p.s., the chair and the pillow c...
FYI, just in case you woodsy Pendleton-wearing hipsters want to hook up with your gritty urban hipster brethren, flights between PDX and LGA (LaGuardia) are only $122 including tax, and youll earn fu...
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