I cannot tell you how excited I am for this holiday season to begin. I am especially grateful as I look back over the course of this year. A year ago, we were sad and gloomy, getting ready to leave for the Mayo Clinic for my big surgery. I was really unhappy and sick. And […]

When it comes to design, I can’t just choose form over function. Or function over form. Why can’t it be both? Can a functional, practical necessity be beautiful, too? That’s why I was really drawn to this image. I smacked my own forehead – DUH! Maybe I really would be excited about putting my shoes […]

I really enjoy picking magazines apart and putting up images that inspire me. Now that so many magazines and their images are online, it makes this so much easier to organize. I think this process should be nearly thoughtless: rip out whatever it is that moves you. Eventually, you begin to notice patterns. And then […]

Fall, as we traditionally know it — cool weather and vibrant changing leaves — is just now here. And I love it. I was thinking to myself the other day that should we ever buy new trees to plant, we must choose them based on how they will look in the fall. When we came […]