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Clinton Hill Brownstone Kid’s Room, with kids A few week’s back, the Thursday Style section featured KATE YOUNG, stylist to smart stars, who worked with Anna Wintour, attended Oxford and, knocking it...
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santos in my window Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There’s a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen, Anthem Leonard Cohen’s zen spin on the...
View Articlewhen we roam + antiquing for kids (rooms)
Better than a day antiquing upstate? Leaving the (big, tagged, draconian urban ugliness – or at least stretches of it) behind… tag you’re it And reaching this… fields and skies here be antiques Then...
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We write a lot about things here. It’s the nature of the beast I suppose and I’m not sure I’d want to read my own ruminations along more esoteric philosophical veins. Today though, I ask for your...
View Articleconsider it a snow day
Adirondacks in snow Remember when you were a kid who woke in the morning to SNOW. Only to be informed that while it was CLEARLY still snowing, and there was PLENTY of snow on the ground, and ALL signs...
View Articleplease love my bedroom
Apartment Therapy’s My Bedroom Retreat, Courtney’s Soothing Blue Bedroom Again? Again. Once again, we’ve (I’ve) gone and entered a contest on Apartment Therapy. And this time it’s truly personal – I’ve...
View Articlethey tell us it’s spring
potting hyacinths In Monday’s post I’d promised a follow-up all-about-the-bedroom post today. That’ll come, consider it owed. But on chilly Monday, with snow on the ground, silly me didn’t think to...
View ArticleBEDROOM BASICS: bedding
White bedding, white marble mantel, goldfish on white As promised in my Love My Bedroom Post, a post on bedroom building blocks. Crafting a bedroom grown-up enough to satisfy the “escape + nest”...
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egg prep April is, among many other wonderful things (husband’s birthday, our anniversary, bringer of true signs of spring), POETRY month! I love poetry! To celebrate, I’ll post favorites through the...
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