From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Sweet Thank You

January 10, 2009

I think this downloadable thank you card from Samantha Hahn is adorable.   My mother-in-law gave me the sweetest mini thank yous from Civilettes that have had me thinking about random acts of gratitude.

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Happy Weekend!

January 9, 2009

Isn’t this the most wonderful nook? After a moody week, I’m ready for some tea here!

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1,2,3 Tote Bag Delight

January 7, 2009

I’m such a sucker for tote bags and anything number and font related….

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Inspiration in Travel

January 6, 2009

Kate from Love You Big is traveling the globe (currently in Japan!) and I am enthralled by this photo.

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Daily Dose of Green

January 6, 2009

This space in Buenos Aires used to be an outdoor courtyard and the owners covered it with glass and made it into a dinner room.  The rest of the house is funky and beautiful too.

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Perfect Pink

January 5, 2009

I love these engagement photographs of Joanna and Alex.  The pink sky is a perfect pink and makes me think pink might be the color of happiness, don’t you?

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Stripes!

January 5, 2009

I’m loving anything with stripes these days and artist Jamie Shelman left me a comment about her work, thinking I would love it and I do!

I’m taking this week to organize my life and house for 2009. Which means there is a trip to the Container Store in my future (shudder — that place always make me feel inadequate).

Let’s see: We had a nice Christmas in Boston and a nice visit with my parents post-Christmas in North Carolina — my parents both made us amazing books (our homemade Christmas was a big hit!).  My mother made a book describing of all the make-believe games my sister and I played as kids for Tim and my father wrote me a second installment of Cooking and the Writing Life.  I made my father and sister cashmere blankets from fabric I bought at Mood and my mother finally (two and a half years later) got an album of our wedding photographs.  I hope you had a lovely holiday wherever you were and that getting back in the grove isn’t too painful. xo, Abbey

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I just saw this amazing christmas “tree” from All The Luck in The World, via ATLA (although its been all over the web already) and just had to post it beacuse I think that this way of displaying ephemera is awesome and could be used all year round (in a variety of spaces — like circles!).  She put it together with blue tacky stuff and tiny nails.

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