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Monday Inspired: drops and dots

August 9, 2010
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We’ve just had a week or more of short summer thunderstorms. Every year, I find it harder and harder to bear the heat and humidity and just so much sunshine. I can’t help but feel that these thunderstorms are my temporary relief from summer, when I can huddle up inside near a window to listen and [...]

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Monday Inspired: in the bookstore

July 19, 2010
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For anyone with an eye for design, stepping into a bookstore (or wine shop, or stationery shop, or soap aisle) might as well be stepping into a diverse and awe-inspiring art exhibition. An art exhibition where almost all of the works fall within your budget. And you want to take everything home because it just looks [...]

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Snowed in and (thinking) cozy

January 30, 2010

We woke up this morning here in Southern Maryland to a gentle shower of snow and less than a half inch on the ground. Over the course of the day, I’ve watched the snow pour down on top of us and the accumulation rise to at least six inches. And there’s no sign of it [...]

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Inspirationpalooza

January 15, 2010

I want to come clean: I regularly read wedding blogs. Of course, by “read” I mean “mostly just look at photos.” Aside from a general penchant for hyperbole and overuse of words like, “gorgeousness,” “gorgeous,” and — God help me — “lovely,” I find that they’re often a good source of inspiration for everything from [...]

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Skoonberg

December 22, 2009

Oh! Hello there. It seems that Christmas is closing in fast, in case you – like me – hadn’t noticed. This past weekend I actually achieved the sending of a small batch of handmade Christmas cards; though the big story really is that Christmas cards even made it from my hands into envelopes with stamps and addresses and stuff, and [...]

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Roughing It

October 8, 2009

I just wanted to call your attention for a few moments to my Tumblog, which I am fairly good at forgetting about. It’s probably a really handy thing when you know what to do with it, and so it’s currently my new bright idea to start using Tumblr to “curate” (or round up, I suppose) [...]

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