inspiration

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2011

It’s been quite a hectic holiday season here, but one that was chock-full of joy and inspiration. As always, I feel like I’m starting the new year with both feet on the starting blocks, ready to push off and sprint in a dozen different directions. Inevitably, I’ll start to run out of steam, so it’s [...]

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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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Children Inspire Design

July 16, 2010
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Good Morning Sunshine (8″ x 10″ or 11″ x 14″ print) When I was growing up, my mom kept a large cupboard full of arts and craft supplies that my brother and I could get into whenever we felt like creating. She would stock it with your typical supplies — paints, glue, markers, pencils, scissors, construction [...]

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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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