Hey guys! Don't know if you caught the latest West Elm catalog at all, but I am a sucker for it. Not for the furniture, or the vases, or the rugs, or the glassware per se, but for the dark walls. This catalog has become a permanent fixture on the coffee table and I keep thumbing through it in moments of bordom admiring all the dark colored, cool-toned walls. What I love most about a dark room READ MORE

My kitchen is really good at being segmented. Remember the floor plan I shared with you from the other day? There is the "pantry" and mudroom areas, the main kitchen area, and then there is this strange chopped-up wall on the far side of the room. When I took this photo on the lower right, I made this wall look good. It's all thanks to a little styling trick I call cropping. See, no fridge! Honestly READ MORE

Click to enlarge! It totally made my day earlier this week to open up my inbox and see an email waiting for me from my friend Breanna, who just so happens to be a neighbor too. She is an internet history detective and had made some recent census discoveries while surfing ancestry.com. I've let her know before that I am very curious about my house, I myself have tried to dig through public READ MORE

Finn started his second year of preschool on Tuesday! He's super stoked about it, he really loves teachers, learning, and most of all, a nice steady schedule. We had a fun summer but I think he was getting a little bored of being around the house all the time and was ready to welcome a new adventure. He's amped to discover new things and meet new friends. I'm excited for him, we know he'll do READ MORE