My family is still in vacation mode up at the mountain house, with the team back in the office prepping out (and planning) 2020. But in case you missed a lot of our ‘year in review’ posts we thought we’d …
Happy New Year – With Some Big Thoughts About The Past And Future
Happy new year. Hell, happy new decade. It feels pretty appropriately timed, actually. This year I turned 40 and TODAY the blog turns 10 (more on that later), so my levels of self-reflection and toleration of bullshit are both at …
Most Popular Blog Posts of 2019
OKAY, OUR TOP 10 POSTS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR. Thank you so much to all of you who read, share, comment. Seriously, we read all of them and it does truly impact and inform what we do next. While we …
We Answer the 5 Most Common Design Questions You Ask Us Again and Again
As part blog, part design company, it’s understandable that our readers would want to tap into that second “part” and ask for our design advice…as much as possible. We get A LOT of questions via email and Instagram, but the …
The Link Up: Emily’s Fav Affordable Pullover Sweater, Jess’ Vintage Lamp Shop Find and Arlyn’s Best Refrigerator Hack
Welcome to the LAST link up of 2019. Don’t worry it will not be the last because you all seem to love them as much as we love sharing what we like. It’s a true win-win. So take a deep …
Our Top 10 Most Popular Fashion Posts of 2019
This year, we expanded into posting seven days a week, keeping fashion and lifestyle mainly on Saturdays (which you seemed to like) so it didn’t take up a day of design content. While I’m not a model, I do have …
Our 10 Most Popular Instagram Posts of 2019 (Plus My Unexpected Feelings)
This is a larger conversation. Truly. Chasing “likes” is never a good thing as a creative—OR A PERSON. It’s like chasing “cool,” or worse, chasing “youth.” It’s the opposite of authenticity and wreaks of try-hard. So I haven’t chased likes, …
Our Top 10 Most “Popular” Design Projects of 2019
While often a “maybe I should cut my hair” post that requires almost ZERO time will get a ton of page views, we don’t value it higher, because our design projects are what we stand for. Between the design planning/work, …
Merry Christmas …
Merry Christmas from our crazy family to you and yours. We are up at the mountain house, all a little sick with colds, so we are snuggling hard, playing games and making a lot of soup and broth. We survived …
All The Risky (and Questionable) Holiday DIYs I’ve Done (and Maybe I Want To Do More Of)
This post is brought to you in collaboration with my former weird self. I’m having a real resurgence over here, it’s been bubbling up for a while but it’s taken me a bit to understand what I miss about my …