I spent today’s rainy afternoon with a cup of hot tea and Jan Showers’s new book called Glamorous Rooms. After devouring all 206 pages of design ideas and beautiful photography (you can see all of my bookmarks below) I can safely say that Glamorous Rooms will be a forerunner in my design library that I [...]

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Funnily enough, I am actually looking forward to my oil change scheduled for the end of the day…

And no, it’s not because I enjoy chores or taking care of the necessities. Actually the only chores I remotely enjoy are vacuuming and power-washing (very satisfying to see all of that gunk disappear). Over the weekend my [...]

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Over the weekend I finished reading Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki, who was arguably one of Japan’s most famous geisha. The story of her upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (geisha house) is fascinating, although perhaps atypical as she entered the house at the young age of five years old as the chosen atori, or [...]

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I genuinely enjoy cooking but haven’t quite got the natural instinct to throw things together on my own. People have told me this skill develops over time. But for now, I rely on my trusty cookbooks to get me through dinners and get-togethers. So this post is not intended for gourmet cooks. It’s for those [...]

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It’s a black & white Thursday. And that’s because some of my promo materials were delivered this morning and now I’m just in a black & white vintage-esque mood. I thought I would gather a few things that have caught my eye in stores and online. Holly from decor8 inspired us to create our own [...]

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It’s hard not to notice all of the yellow. I went shopping over the weekend and in the front of almost every store was a section of beautiful spring yellow garments. Perfect for lifting my mood. As we saw in the 2008 Pantone color forecast report, freesia is one of the spring season’s hottest colors. [...]

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