Hooked On Houses featured this coastal cottage home. I find myself wearing out the link. Here’s the official listing. I think the house NEEDS me, really. Of course, my DWR-loving husband might bump his head on the low ceilings and pastelness. I still love it.
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*I’ve been meaning to share my friend and amazing photographer Brooks’s engagement shoot with Lonnie Webb here. I LOVE Brooks’s photography as well which is always influenced by dance, movement and romance. *I’m obsessing about finding the perfect white fairy lights like in Nigella’s house. I could watch her Christmas videos again and again. *I did...
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Pink Martini has a new Christmas album that’s a lot of fun. Ben Folds has a new album, too called Lonely Avenue. One of my favorite novelists, Nick Hornby wrote the lyrics. Love this video of them chatting about working together. It’s what art should be: a collaborative conversation where we help each other be...
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I have been meaning to tell you how much I love Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift From The Sea. I tried to read it once when I was in college by the sea, but never finished it. I put it to my ear and could not hear the ocean. This time, it seemed to roar. I...
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So true. It was lovely to have gotten away and it’s lovely to be home. Love this book‘s clever cover art that I snagged from my phone on a rare date-night to the bookstore. It sounds like an interesting premise. {My husband here reading about Hawaii} Other finds from the evening from the spy cam:...
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*My shoot was rained out this morning, and my girl is watching the old Toy Story after our big night out to the theater last night for part 3. If I’m honest, I cried my eyes out at the end. This morning, I am spending the unexpected window of free time {unexpected window of free...
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When they brought after dinner coffee, it arrived in this mug. Great shape, love the color. Nothing tacky written on it. The perfect mug. “Can I buy it from you?” I asked the server. “You can have it. They break all of the time.” It was as if he had just handed me a crisper....
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I accepted that I won’t be living near water for a while, so I have decided to bring the water in. I’m finding inspiration from this book that my husband got me for my birthday, and pages from Coastal Living, jelly beans, sea glass and paint swatches. We are screening in our ordinary carport so...
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Drinking: Coffee at home! Hooray! Listening to: The Nest – Jose Gonzalez I started this blog in 2007, but I never thought I would make it to 100 consecutive days of blogging. Day number 365 seems so far away. Today, The NYTimes has a cool article and interactive called A Writer Get’s A Home Office...
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Drinking: Green Tea Latte Listening to: Dave Matthews & Orchestra Baobab, So Damned Lucky. Hooked on Houses has begun featuring Before & Afters. This one sent in by Meadowbrook Farm is my favorite. It reminds me of the Dreamsicle Cottage we rented once at Seaside and our first little house we rented in Georgia. This should...
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