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S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom details, Week 7

2020-06-17

DECORATING | Talking finishing touches as the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) nears its end. Whelp. This is it. The end is nigh! The One Room Challenge (ORC) is drawing to a close and here ...

blogs & news, Design & Decor, Writing

I guess I’m still working on the bathroom?

2020-06-10

DECORATING? NOT REALLY. | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC), Black Lives Matter, Instagram, scattered thoughts from a mixed-race non-designer, whathaveyou. Here we are on week six of the ...

Design & Decor, Lifestyle

S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom goes green, Week 4

2020-05-27

DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC). Talking paint. Paint and pink tile. Paint and panic. Green walls. Magic moments. Can we talk about paint for a minute? Can we talk about how ...

Design & Decor, Lifestyle

S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom (but not really), Week 3

2020-05-20

RANTING | In which I talk about the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC), decorating my pink bathroom, and my tendency to make people hate me. Oh hi. It’s week three of the ORC and I am ...

Design & Decor, Lifestyle

s2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom, Week 2

2020-05-13

DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) and me. And my pink bathroom. And the boring cleaning and prep and minor renovations I’ve done so far. OH HAI! It’s the second ...

creative musings, Writing

This woman’s work

2020-05-08

ESSAY | We need to talk about work. I need to talk about work. Women’s work. This woman’s work. I just read a beautiful essay in the Paris Review. It’s entitled, Fuck the Bread. The ...

Design & Decor, Lifestyle

s2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom, Week 1

2020-05-06

DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) and my MCM pink tile bathroom. Whelp! I did it! I signed up for the One Room Challenge (ORC). I’ve followed it for years, since it ...

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One That Got Away: Murano glass lamps

2020-04-13

ONE THAT GOT AWAY | Murano glass lamps and lessons learned. I’ve been meaning to start this series for awhile — posts about pieces that got away. I feel like this is a subject that resonates with ...

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Spotlight: Boucherouite Rugs

2020-04-06

SPOTLIGHT | Boucherouite rugs (or the very best and coolest rag rugs out there). So rugs have kinda been a thing for me over the past year. I’m not sure what happened exactly, but all of a sudden ...

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Spotlight: Kaoru Kawano, MCM Japanese printmaker

2020-03-30

SPOTLIGHT | Kaoru Kawano | Midcentury Japanese Printmaker Artist “Born: 1916; Hokkaido, Japan Died: 1965 Nationality: Japanese Art Movement: Shōwa period (1926–1989) Field: Woodblock ...

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Vintage love and shopping during COVID-19

2020-03-17

SHOP NEWS | Whelp. WHELP. Shopping during COVID-19. It’s a whole thing. My new shop space opened today at Trunkshow Raleigh (1526 Wake Forest Rd, Raleigh, NC 27604). It’s a little ...

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W&B vintage fashion: love, rediscovered

2019-11-23

REDISCOVERING VINTAGE FASHION | Will and Bequeath vintage fashion … for the love of clothes, y’all. Hey friends. It’s been awhile. Blogging sometimes feels like a bit of a ...