Crafty Girls From a Century Ago

I'm Abbey Nova, a design historian in New York City. I blog about design in all its forms. I also post about my life in NYC and my family.

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Some of my favorite posts include:
NYC: The Art of the Staycation
Great Gift: A Year of Flowers
My Pregnancy Survival Guide
Bathtub Roundup
Gallery Wall Round Up
Heartbroken: Gourmet Magazine Closing
Food for Thought: What Are Your Defining Moments
Ebay: How To Find Affordable Art
Recipe: Carrot Cake Whoopie Pie

You might also be interested in seeing our wedding photos, baby photos, and seeing our apartment on Design*Sponge and in Page Six Magazine.

A house is more than just a shelter from the storm. How we shape our homes, and how we behave within them, speak volumes about our history, our values and our way of life. - New York Times

Living is the greatest art of all. - Alfred Stieglitz

But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

David Foster Wallace, Commencement address at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, May 21, 2005.

(Found via Even*Cleveland)

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