For the past year that we’ve been living in our apartment, my bedroom has been frustrating me a bit because it just didn’t feel right. All of the hod podge furniture and decor just wasn’t coming together properly like it usually does. My stuff…
Ever since I discovered that it’s pretty difficult to kill cacti and succulents I’ve been collecting then around the apartment like a squirrel preparing for winter. Usually when I bring a plant into the apartment it commits suicide upon entering our threshold, but the…
Recently we counted how many holes we’ve poked in our apartment ceiling to hang lights. The answer’s 9. NINE. And eight of those ceiling holes are holding barn pulleys. While it might be time to slow down on the hanging light fixtures, I learned…
When it comes to craft supplies, I love glitter. In the past I’ve made a glittered shirt, a glittered purse, glittered sunglasses, and a glittered lamp shade. So when I received some iron-on glitter sheets to use in a project from the Tulip Holiday…
A couple months back when we were living in our old apartment, my roommate Adele walked by this home store with this incredible display of pendant lights hanging from pulleys. Adele took a photo so that we could recreate the idea in our new…
Ever since I moved to New York, one of my favorite things to do is create things for our apartment. I love adding dramatic things that change the whole vibe of the room– and nothing is more dramatic than a chandelier. A couple months…
When we first moved to New York, we counted ourselves pretty lucky that we had a few square feet to our names and a sink large enough to wash dishes. We were really lucky to have had the apartment we got, but after a…
These past few weeks have been some of the busiest I can remember. Currently I’m writing this in a little B&B at the base of the Scottish Highlands as Sean and I bop around and explore the British Isles. (More on that in another…
As we get ready to move around the corner to our *second* NYC apartment, I’ve been in full-on project mode. One of my most recent projects was making this faux taxidermy out of cardboard, plaster, paint, and paper mache. The night I decided to…
A few months back during Hurricane Sandy, we were cooped up for a few days in our little apartment. We were some of the (very) lucky ones who didn’t lose power, (or our home for that matter). So because we couldn’t do anything, we…