Category Archives: domestic arts If you have West Elm furniture, you have no doubt discovered that it is less durable than you’d hope. After just one year outside on our COVERED AND ENCLOSED ON THREE SIDES north facing patio, our portside low sectional in Weathered Cafe looked awful. I contacted customer service to see if they sold touch up […]  I searched for a modern calendar for our mud room for over a year before finding the Girl Friday acrylic calendars that were EXACTLY what I was looking for! I spent another month angsting over the cost before doing a commercial photography shoot and getting the calendar as a present for myself. When it arrived, […] I always thought that the reason my housekeeping skills were a little on the sloppy side was that I am a working mom. In the past, I’ve been known to go to bed, not only with the dishes undone, but the dishes still sitting on the table where we left them, with the dirty and […] The kitchen floors were replaced today. Or I should say over-placed, since the original linoleum is now just underneath the new stuff. I celebrated by making dinner from scratch (clam chowder) and chocolate cakes with Will. Later this week we will also say goodbye to the royal blue counters! I was feeling pretty good about […] Sometimes I look in my fridge and freezer and pantry and think “surely there’s a dinner to be made here.” And if I was a mom in 1943, I would know how to take that can of pinapple chunks, the frozen log of sausage, and the half top of stovetop stuffing and not only make […] I can’t pinpoint exactly where it started, but I got sucked into the dream of an old fashioned better life. Animal Vegetable Miracle, The Gentle Art of Domesticity, the constant discovery of the new and terrifying ways that we’re poisoning our children with pesticides and Happy Meals and vaccines and toys from China all fueled […] |
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