Archive for November, 2007

God, how I love custom

build your own builtby lamp
A few years ago I was at a huge retail trends meeting (That’s right, make your peace with it. I sell my soul to marketing people to pay the mortgage.) and the big buzzword was “customization.” According to this meeting, consumers want control over everything from their web experience to the [...]

Teco the Halls

teco rocket vase
Right after we moved into our cottage we sort of accidentally started collecting pottery. (Turns out ceramics made for great housewarming gifts.) We started with mostly Arts & Crafts stuff as we were all excited about the style of our new house and wanted some accoutrements that reflected it. We now have a [...]

So now add a tree

where to put the tree 
using the floorplanner tool
We have a pretty good sized living room for a small house. It’s a whopping 198 square feet. In our last apartment, that was about the size of the kitchen, living room, and bedroom combined. I do not exaggerate. Even in that apartment I insisted on a big-girl tree. No [...]

Oprah loves my wedding cake! And now you can, too!

perfect endings cupcakes at
williams-sonoma
Yep, we got the Oprah seal of approval. The “Favorite Things” show was on yesterday (thank you Tivo) and among all the stuff that made an audience full of hysterical ladies scream and cry and say “Thank you, Jesus!” was a selection of cupcakes made by Perfect Endings. Well, go us because [...]

Raise the Bar!

oregon soap company pile o’ soap
We’re soap junkies. It’s true. Actually, that may be understating a tad. We are bath/spa/soap junkies. Beth more than me really but the end result is the same: House full of soap.
I tend to be a fan of the bar soaps myself and that really has more to do with [...]