Here's a quickie client project for you: So we had this cupboard, right. It's in this ultra refined library-- fireplace, high ceilings, lounge chair made of leather like butter, built-in's spanning the walls, the whole nine. The cupboard in question was, shall we say, less chic than the room containing it. It happened to be my client's "present cupboard," i.e. a place to stow any and all would-be gifts. Some of them already wrapped (the convenience!). ...

When your favorite sister flies across the country for your birthday you sort of forget about things like the internet. It wasn't a deliberate decision, a pseudo-challenge to see if in fact I was capable of unplugging. Rather, it happened quite naturally. What could there be of more import than my one and only sibling? And so I just backed away from it all and focused on the present. Not a single pin was pinned, ...

Thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes yesterday, I can't tell you how they warmed the cockles (is there a stranger word?) of my heart. I thought it only appropriate to pass on the affection today. For the uninitiated, "blove" is short-form for "blog love," which I've coined...just now. I have many opinions on blogging and various bloggers, thoughts both positive and negative, and usually those shift on a post-ly basis. There's one fact ...

And now for the latest installment of Annie Lives Simply In Real Life, a client project of the pantry variety. There wasn't much decluttering to be done-- a few extraneous things had wandered in over time, others had exceeded their intended life span--but for the most part it was a matter of organizing, of straightening and neatening. Here's where we started: Just a bit overgrown, you know? My mission was clear: pull everything off the ...