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  • This holiday season, stay independent!

    For the fourth year running, I have made a personal commitment to only buying handmade gifts this holiday season. Please encourage your friends and family to buy (and create!) handmade gifts. Whether…

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    Washington Heights.

    Our little Manhattan apartment is way, way uptown—further up than even the Upper West Side and Harlem—in a neighborhood that, depending on who you talk to, might technically be part of Hudson…

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    Weekend to-do.

    This is an overly-ambitious list of things I’d like to accomplish this weekend. I realize the wallpapering is probably not going to happen, but hey, I can hope. SATURDAY: • Stain the…

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    Marimekko wants.

    I keep wandering over to the Kiitos Marimekko website and obsessively adding things to my cart and then immediately removing them. Yes, I could just walk up to the actual store during…

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    Mamma Biscuit as Anna Wintour.

    I asked my friend and fellow book cover designer, John, to write up a little press release about his rescue pug’s big win this past weekend at costume contest in Fort Tryon…

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    Roger O’Donnell / Piano Formations.

    So, let me tell you a little bit about my friend Roger O’Donnell. He’s one of those people who can think about visual art and design and music and fashion and architecture…

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    Happy birthday, Mommy!

    My mother is in Washington, DC, right now for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity this weekend (I am so jealous…I really wish I could go!), so she won’t see this at…

  • Happy Sunday.

    Thank you for all of the thoughtful comments on this post. I have a hard time writing personal posts sometimes (well, everything I write is personal—that’s hard to avoid—but you know what…

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