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photo by sara ligorria-tramp | from: how we designed a family-friendly laundry room in the portland project

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photo by sara ligorria-tramp | from: how we designed a family-friendly laundry room in the portland project

LAUNDRY, GUYS. It’s all I can think about. Riddle me this: how is it possible to wear the same few pieces every day and STILL amass piles of things to be washed? Did I break a time-space barrier? Is this physics? Did my spring cleaning unlock a black hole of clothing that’s been sitting, un-laundered, for millennia? Is this what you talk about in science class? Like a lot of apartment dwellers, laundry day is a whole THING for me. I wasn’t #blessed with an in-unit (or even in-building) washer or dryer, so once a week, I load up a...

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Another batch of questions answered! If I didn’t get to your question here, I’ll tackle it in the next dispatch! And the picture above has nothing to do with anything but that enormous arrangement literally left me swooning

blessed Children ClassicStyle Maternity Pregnancy Travel

Another batch of questions answered!  If I didn’t get to your question here, I’ll tackle it in the next dispatch!  And the picture above has nothing to do with anything but that enormous arrangement literally left me swooning

In a dream world, I’d stow all of your little queries, hand-written, in a little tray on a console in a fabulous entryway like this. A girl can dream?! Q: What’s on your Easter dinner menu? A: First comes Saint Patrick’s day, and Mr. Magpie is corning his own beef and I’ll be making Martha Stewart’s caraway-seed-studded soda bread (delicious slathered with Kerrygold butter). So we’ve been talking about that and deferring conversations about Easter. But most likely leg of lamb! (We made ham last year.) We love Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc cookbook for major meals like this — a...

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