For our second installment in our Bookmark This series, we decided to highlight our favorite places in the Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods in Brooklyn. These neighborhoods are easily accessible from Manhattan, yet they feel like an oasis from the hectic city. Keep reading for our favorite spots and a downloadable PDF that you can take with you on your Brooklyn travels! Madcap ...
Bookmark This: 5 New York City cafes that will make you feel like you’re in Paris
Welcome to Bookmark This, a new series we're doing on Most Lovely Things. We love writing about food and travel, so we thought, why not start putting together travel/neighborhood guides for our favorite places? We'll be doing "Bookmark This" in the form of blog posts and accompanied by downloadable PDFs that you can take with you anywhere. What better way to start this series than with our ...
5 Summer Salads You’ll Want to Make Right Now
Our summer has been beautiful and we've had lots of great picnic weather. I'm teaming up with Mary Ann and Cindy and two other bloggers, The View from Great Island and Pine Cones & Acorns to all share our favorite summer salads for our latest Project Design. Sometimes design means salad...at least in our worlds! Dijon balsamic olive oil with shallots, garlic & fresh ...
Amazon Prime Day + Deals on simple art supplies for summer projects
DIY art supplies for card making & other projects When my kids were little, we used to set aside one morning in the summer to make birthday cards for everyone in the coming year. Back then I actually had a birthday book. We would go through the book month-by-month and make cards for every person. We would put them in a folder with addresses and about a week before the birthday, we would ...
What we found at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale
Madeline and I have had a tradition of shopping the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale since even before she was born. I remember shopping with my sister at the South Coast Plaza Nordstrom the July before Madeline was born in October. They had a shelf full of Madeline dolls (at anniversary sale price) and it was right then that I fell in love with the name Madeline. So 23 years later and we still go ...
It’s amazing what a new shower curtain can do for a bathroom
Adding a new pretty shower curtain in a bathroom is like making the bed. What looks like a mess can be turned around with a made bed or a pretty new shower curtain from Rejuvenation. This hall bath was once a a very awkward looking bathroom with a vanity that was too large for the space. The first thing we did was remove it and replace with a pedestal sink. I know I know...no storage, but the ...