mystified

Generally I'm happy to give it--whenever people call for surveys and polls I'll offer up my two cents' worth. Sometimes I like ...

The Non-Emergency Design Emergency

Tomorrow is our final installation day for the DC Design Showhouse. We have almost everything installed except for the custom concrete parso...

I never figured out the wisdom of building Happyland Elementary on a county highway, far off the beaten path of sidewalks and 25 m.p.h. spee...

Little Victims... Photoshoot Prep

Since Spring isn't really doing its thing quickly enough for me, I am seriously craving green: I love what plants do for rooms.  Sometim...

and a pheasant in a crabapple tree

It was hard to feel peeved about our 3-week extension of winter when I looked outside this morning and found the world flocked with frost an...

Climbing Vines

I've always wanted climbing vines on my house.  I remember reading a book when I was a little girl that pictured a red brick house cover...

The Mad Hatter & a question

The Mad Hatters arrived today for my room in the DC Design House and I am in love: {My first Mad Hatter Wing Chair with a taupe velvet in fr...

this just in

A snow day with a 6, 8 and 11-year-old goes by wicked fast. Best times of motherhood are happening right now . I think back of those snow ...

Move-in Day!

We move into our room at the DC Decsign House today!!  I CANNOT WAIT to see the Madhatter chairs from my new line in person.  (They're...

why midwesterners are a stoic bunch, prone to pessimism and drinking too much

Same shots as yesterday afternoon, taken minutes ago. Yes, school was canceled. Yes, I am a little crabby about the whole business. (Not...

German Favorite Antiques

This weekend I headed to one of my absolute favorite antique stores- German Favorite Antiques in Leesburg, VA-  with my best friends from co...

sure sign of spring in Wisconsin

more green and the start of a legacy

Mr. G brought this home from school Friday--his favorite green things. It was too darn-tootin' cute not to share. That first one is ...

toothpaste wars

The other morning I listened to a woman give advice about marriage--"It's not the big things, it's the little things that wreck...

green things

On St. Patrick's Day it seems fitting to make a short list of green things I love: * asparagus * "Green" living * spi...

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

I bought these shamrocks (above) a week or so ago from Trader Joe's and they're hanging in there!  I covered the dirt in reindeer mo...

some of us require very little encouragment

Forty-two degrees is plenty warm for line drying laundry, or growing through layers of mulch. Robins and crocuses are never wrong. You can g...