This was a project that began in May during the Spring tag sale season. I collected eight chairs for about $40 total. I've checked around and while tag sales and flea markets have the best prices on mismatched dining room or desk chairs, Goodwill is another great source and they run about $8 to $12 a chair. A few of the chairs needed a little glue and a good scrub. Once they were completely ...
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Steele Canvas Basket + Made in America
Last week I had the opportunity to tour Steele Canvas Basket in Chelsea, MA with Director of Marketing, Frank Geffken. Everyone knows (whether you realize it or not) about this company. You've seen the large trucks in hotels, on college campuses, the post office....they are everywhere all over the country supplying every industry. The recognizable old school STEELE logo is still hand ...
Museum Hopping + Queens, NY
When my daughter said she wanted to see the Mad Men exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image, I said "heck yes!" She has Fridays off from her internship in NYC so every Friday we plan a field trip so to speak. This Friday was Queens. Turns out we've spent very little time in the borough of Queens. Sure we spend lots of time at JFK and LaGuardia airports, but even baseball....we're Yankees ...
Timeless Kitchen before & after
A few weeks ago Schoolhouse Electric posted our kitchen on their instagram and called it a "Timeless Kitchen." It occurred to me that I never did a post on our before and after kitchen. I thought the name they gave it suited our current kitchen and pretty much every kitchen we've had in the past 20+ years perfectly. Every kitchen renovation we've done has been pretty much the same. That may ...
Lorca + Coffee + Stamford, CT
When my daughter is home from school one of the things we love to do is go out for coffee. Not just any coffee shop will do, we make a day of it. We make plans, we map out two or three places we want to try in the city and off we go. It's a great time to catch up and check out some fun new places. But sometimes....we don't have the whole day to drink coffee. I know...shocking, right? That's ...
DIY Easter Cards + Seed Packets
Last year I made Easter cards using seed packets from Terrain. I did something similar this year because on a recent trip to Terrain on the first day of Spring....a day that it was snowing, I just could not resist the beautiful Atomic Red Carrot seed packets from Baker Creek. I bought the packets not really knowing how I would use them, but knew it had to a be at least slightly different than ...
