.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Christmas lunch table, originally uploaded by karin eriksson. pretty!

Here is Emelie’s apartment in Stockholm as viewed in the Japanese book Stockholm Apartments. Love that little book. The order, symmetry and clean lines of the apartment appeal to me.

photo by dooce. look at this! heather armstrong (dooce) has a new puppy – a Christmas gift from her husband. that face! I’m in love! According to Dooce, "Introducing: Dame Eleanor Ritzford-Fitzsimons Puffs. You can just call her Coco."

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Candle drawer, originally uploaded by Chez Larsson. LOVE this idea of a candle drawer. you should SEE this swedish house the drawer lives in. amazingly clean and bright and so organized! if you’re a…

snowy friday, originally uploaded by sunnygirlwi. my long weekend begins now…..beginning with this photo taken moments ago from the lobby window. six inches of snow will fall by six p.m. tonight. good news though! a roommate, gretchen, from san francisco is in my neck o’ the woods until tuesday, so we’ll have time to hang…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } restoration home, originally uploaded by sunnygirlwi. I should add that my “library” consists of about 15 books. I own few books but borrow at least four books a week from the library. hmm..I have…

Noooooooooooooooooo, originally uploaded by fieldguided. this weekend I received the most recent Blueprint magazine – with a red cover. LOVED it even if it is the last (and my favorite) issue. Heard a rumor that the magazine will be folded into Martha Stewart Weddings – an idea I’m not overly fond of. Anyone else read…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } happy christmas!, originally uploaded by mav | port2port. hard to believe it’s the day after Christmas..and life is back to normal…for three days anyway – then another long weekend!! Christmas weekend was a pretty…

Stilrent 1, originally uploaded by Astrid.. I love this book and the one that follows. I first heard about the book from the ever-glamorous-new-mom stacey and thought, "If her style came from here..then I have to have the book!"

I have a cold.  *sniff*  *sneeze*  *cough* (and…….repeat) I am around Mr. and Mrs. Paranoid who are avoiding me and my office and the papers in my hands as if I have the plague.  Did NOT see this cold coming.  Not even when I received the following email from my mom yesterday. Am home sick. …