There’s a small toy perched on the bookshelf of my friend’s carefully curated living room. It’s a little creepy. Out of place. A tad confusing.
And better yet, it doesn’t match anything. Not her soft linen curtains, not her aesthetic, Assouline coffee table books, nor her Diptyque candle that smells like…
The more we change things around our home, the more we look over our shoulder to see if anyone is going to stop us.
We’ll occasionally drill a hole in the wall or add trim somewhere or pull up plants from our yard, and our renter’s reflex kicks in: are we allowed to… just… do this stuff??
Turns out, once you bu…
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” -Publilius Syrus
One of my favorite things to do every morning is to make a latte. I love the entire process of it–grinding the coffee beans, using the stirrer to break up any coffee grind chunks, leveling out the grinds with the tamp, placing the portafilter …