Happy Holidays

And so the vacation begins. This year we're going to visit my parents and then his parents, so I'll be offline for a few days. Followed by a return to Home Sweet Home and a blissful week of staycation.In a few hours I'll be there, enjoying the fire and the lighted Christmas tree, my mom's many tins of cookies, gazing out windows at blankets of snow, wrapping the last of the presents. Since we don't do much decorating at our apartment, it doesn't...

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Xmas Cookies

I haven't quite gotten into the holiday spirit this year. Instead, I've been feeling stressed and overwhelmed by holiday preparations and life in general. Maybe it's seasonal affective disorder. Who knows. Anyway, every year I dream of mammoth cookie baking sessions, like the ones I remember with my mom when little, involving several kinds of cookies, sprinkles and decorations, cookie cutters, and Christmas music in the background. I dream of tins...

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The New Depression

I'm loving these two posters from Readymade - "ReadyMade asks five artists to reimagine the populist poster art of the first Great Depression." Not only are these messages that I believe in strongly, but I think these darling posters are pretty enough to hang on a wall. I'm running out of wall space in my apartment, but I have entertained the idea of starting a series of kitschy art hanging in my entrance stairwe...

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Nesting

Lately all I want to do is be at home with my two guys (hint, one of them is actually the adorable pup below). Ever since we went to ikea for new furniture, and started decorating more, this apartment really came to feel like home. With a real bed! And a comfy leather reading chair! And things in their places. This place has come a long way from the bachelor pad it once was two years ago with a lone couch and old newspapers strewn all over the living...

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Thanksgiving Recap

I got my chance to take the lead in cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my family this year. I spread the cooking out over a few days and it was surprisingly unstressful. Thank you to Lisa, my sous chef and my Mom for supervising. Here's the run down:The turkeyMy mom always gets a free turkey from Shoprite and I wasn't about to rain on her parade. I also wasn't about to bring a Greenmarket turkey on a 3 hour public transportation ride along with the...

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