Happiest of Thursdays to you. Today I present unto you the spotlight of a designer whose work I loved on first gaze. Ashley Winn Design's portfolio is blissful, pared back serenity, punctuated with statement-making styling and the occasional color and pattern, bold enough to make the whole thing come off feeling awake and inspired. From the neutral, nautical living area, to the strikingly rich and inviting home office (that leads to a secret emerald gem-situation), ...

Today's post is one for the procreators of the world, those souls who bring another into the world and then find themselves unwittingly having also birthed these large, noisy, colorful, attention grabbing affairs known as toys. What's a parent who loves their small human but doesn't love the whole large toy aesthetic to do? The circle of toy-life There is no finer time to institute a toy rotation system than when the toys in question ...

Last week I was working with a client to organize his home office, and the shelves we had selected together, while they did look like knock outs, lacked a certain element crucial in the storage of books: ends. "We need something here..." He said. "Yeah," I said, trying to rearrange spines and avoid knocking the whole group over. "I feel that too." "Do you have any...like...bookends with you?" He asked. And then I was left ...

Recently, I heard concerning and altogether unfavorable sentiments said about a person with whom I've fallen out of touch but still care deeply for. I didn't solicit for this information, nor did hearing it give me the slightest sense of schadenfreude. In fact, I wished I'd never heard it at all. Since it would no longer be appropriate for me to pick up the phone all, "heyyy, can you clear a few things up for me?" ...

My garden, which started as absolutely nothing more than a rectangle of dirt, and then dirt covered in gross-clovers, is now a total thrivation situation. It isn't very large at all, (or they, I should say, there are technically two, what with the miniature one in the back), but darn it if those shrubs and flowers and whatever their exact classifications are aren't doing their best at being alive. I've never had a sprinkler system ...