For 2012, I thought it might be fun to branch out a bit from the furniture and pictures of my house. If for no other reason that perhaps you all might be getting sick of looking at pictures of my house and it certainly takes some of the pressure off to be doing new projects all [...]
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Reminds me of
Posted in Kate, Nerdy Time on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If you aren’t already pinning…
Posted in How To..., iPhone apps, Kate, Nerdy Time, Style & Stage, tagged clothes, home decor, kate, Pinning, pinterest, Quotes on December 15, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I’ve talked about Pinterest before, but I didn’t fully start to take advantage of it until this fall. If I were pressed to name the most helpful internet app in existence for folks like myself, who love crafting, clothes, design, food, etc. etc, it would definitely be Pinterest. It is a total game changer. Pinterest [...]
What’s that saying?
Posted in Kate, Kitchen Redefined, Nerdy Time, The Earth Friendly Room, tagged granite, kate, kitchen, Lowes, Remodel on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Between a rock and a hard place. Yup, I think that is it. Right now, that is where we are in terms of our kitchen remodeling project. We are nearing the completion and the return to having running water in the actual space, something that I promise myself I won’t take for granted for at least [...]
To New Haven, with love
Posted in Kate, Nerdy Time, photography, Summer Reading, tagged architecture, brick, buildinglove, love, New Haven on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have a complicated relationship with New Haven, Connecticut. It has been my home and place of employment for more years than polite to admit. The last year has seen a huge uptick in violence, such that for the first time in my own memory, the city makes me nervous. I know that if I [...]
Feature Friday – Pinterest & CraftGawker!
Posted in How To..., iPhone apps, Kate, Manic Crafting, Nerdy Time, tagged craftgawker, feature friday, geeking out, pinterest on June 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The design blogs have been abuzz for a while now about the latest and greatest in what I like to call, online scrap booking, basically. Pinterest is a website that allows you to capture images from ANYWHERE on the internet. Why is this important? In the past, you might have pulled pages out of magazines and kept [...]
Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as hiiiiiiiigh…..!
Posted in Books, Nerdy Time, Summer Reading, tagged book club, Kindle, reading, summer, Tina Fey on June 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Justin and I joke about how when he was a wild, rebellious youth, I was at home reading. This is a pretty accurate statement. I LOVE to read and can easily go through a book a week. At one point I belonged to two separate book clubs, but ironically, being assigned reading totally killed my [...]
