the power of paper

Some of you may remember my longish-but-ultimately-successful bar cart hunt this past winter, followed by the bar’s makeover with wrapping paper. I’ve been tired of the very early-springish pussy willow paper that’s been in there for a while, and yesterday finally replaced it with this preppy blue striped piece. Because the paper simply lays under [...]

Rose and Radish & Wexford Girl

Yesterday after work Annie of Wexford Girl and I met up to check out Rose and Radish’s new store theme last night – tea time. It was super adorable, and I picked up a few little things for a high tea baby shower I’m throwing next month. Unfortunately they don’t allow photos in the store, [...]

Bar makeover

I finished the makeover of my new bar tonight. That’s paper you see on the top, protected by a piece of glass I had cut at the hardware store. The plan is that the paper can be changed depending on the season/my mood. I thought these pussy willows were very appropriate for the early spring [...]

Found: The bar

Yay! After months of searching craigslist for some kind of bar cart with style and personality (and in my price range) I found one with the help of my new favorite thing, listpic (which I wrote about here.) It’s pretty much exactly what I was looking for – two levels, so that most of the [...]

this is amazing

Sorry for the light posting today – I’ve been running around seeing friends and doing laundry and trying to find somewhere to get clean because our shower is broken and the manager of our building insists on hiring the sketchiest cheapest repair guys he can find so who knows how long it will be before [...]

Finding a bar

I’ve been trying to find a “bar” for our dining room since we moved in. Not a bar you stand behind, but some sort of storage system for all of our alcohol Not like we collect booze or anything, we just really enjoy comsuming it. We also have very little storage space in the kitchen [...]