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KITCHEN RENO PART II

KITCHEN RENO PART II

Part two of the kitchen ren­o­va­tion series: inspi­ra­tion pho­tos! These are some of the most fun things to look at dur­ing any ren­o­va­tion, in my opin­ion – I love to see what direc­tion the design was headed based on pho­tos of other spaces. Here are some of the prob­a­bly many pho­tos that inspired our bud­get ren­o­va­tion with...
AUSTIN in APRIL

AUSTIN in APRIL

Last month, Jes and I made a week­end trip to Amanda’s in Austin — it would be her last offi­cial week­end there, because we were hap­pily wel­com­ing her to her new life in Hous­ton that week. We packed in so much fun that I’m sure I’ll for­get some­thing, but the week­end started with a wel­come torte, fol­lowed by a jaunt...

Hello world!

If you’re read­ing this, you may be slightly con­fused. Back in April, for no good rea­son actu­ally (besides the fact that I thought I couldn’t afford a self-hosted web­site any longer), I can­celled hellodefine.com and my email address jessica@hellodefine.com — then this morn­ing I woke up, decided that was a really dumb thing to have done, and...

POISSON D’ AVRIL

It’s April 1st, peo­ple. Lighten up a bit and have some fun with your neigh­bors. I can’t remem­ber any of the best April Fool’s of my life, but I do appre­ci­ate my mother telling me it was snow­ing one 4 – 1 when I was maybe 6. That wasn’t fair. I’m not a good fooler, I’ll prob­a­bly...

SWEEP IT OUT//PART II.

Ugh, if I get a Best Buy gift card for my birth­day I’m going to use it to buy a third exter­nal hard drive. This time I’ll get another terrabyte so I don’t have to worry – but here are some images I need to delete, enjoy. Sorry they aren’t given own­er­ship infor­ma­tion. I drag and drop...

SHOWBIZ PIZZA PLACE.

STEVEN SAYS I’M EMOTIONAL ABOUT PIZZA. Maybe he’s never been to Showbiz?

NYC GETS MAKEUNDER.

Make­un­ders can be good. Some­times peo­ple have all kinds of shit all over their house and they really just need a freak­ing garage sale already. But New York doesn’t need to spend $27.5 mil­lion dol­lars swap­ping out ALL CAPS SIGNS for Low­er­case Signs that sup­pos­edly are eas­ier to read and less dis­tract­ing. I find them...

A Super Flip.

Most of you guys know that Steven flips cars. You know, like Jeff Lewis flips houses? Here’s a peek at his newest acqui­si­tion… it’s a work in progress and I’ll let him update you on all the details some­time soon!

Moving Day.

We’re mov­ing tomor­row! We’ve been packed all week, and have exhausted our­selves in prepa­ra­tion for the move – we’ve painted, pulled up car­pet, cleaned and had take-out every night this week. We’ll finally get out of our walk-up apart­ment and get into a house with a giant back­yard. Sayō­nara and konnichiwa. mov­ing. by hen­ryd fea­tur­ing Nike

Backyard Ready.

We are mov­ing out of our apart­ment this sum­mer and are this­close to hav­ing a big old back­yard all to our­selves. No more nut-job neigh­bor liv­ing under­neath us and no more walk­ing the dogs except for when we want to. I’m so freak­ing ready. FEKKAI MARINE SUMMER HAIR BEACH WAVES $24 ESSIE HAUTE AS HELLO NAIL...

Show Your Love.

I’m not one who thinks Valentine’s Day is a com­mer­cial­ized greeting-card-company-created faux hol­i­day. I like the idea of a built-in reminder to cher­ish and cel­e­brate those whom and that which you love! (And I’m a lit­tle too par­tial to the whole aisle full of choco­lates at the gro­cer around this time). Here’s my list of...

Haiti’s Angry God; from the NYTIMES

By POOJA BHATIA Pub­lished: Jan­u­ary 13, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HaitiFOR most of the past 20 hours I’ve been hik­ing the earthquake-rubbled streets of Port-au-Prince. Tues­day night, when we had less idea of the scope of the dev­as­ta­tion, there was singing all over town: songs with lyrics like “O Lord, keep me close to you” and “For­give me,...
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