Happy Chanukah!

Check out these perfect holiday cards that were posted on Oh So Beautiful Paper today.
Adore.
I am sorry to ruin the surprise, but I’m pretty sure that I will be sending the menorah-antlered reindeer next year. Too cute!

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Turmoil Continues

I am just really not adventurous. I have looked at so many lights for the dining room, and I can’t find anything. I looked at this awesome post on design sponge, searched Decor 8, and drooled over decorology, but I am at a loss.
I love the adventurous ones like this, but I am too scared [...]

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Lights

Ok, feedback on yesterday’s post has not been very positive! So, can anyone suggest additional places to look for lights to hang over the dining room table? I want something simple, not too formal, and not too modern. Our furniture in not modern.
Any ideas?! Suggestions!?

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Cute or Ugly?

Do you like this to hang over our long antique dining room table. I wanted something with two lights (like this but simpler and darker), but now I am drawn to this one.
 Here’s a poor quality picture of the dining room. We’ve moved some things around but it’s generally the same layout.

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On a fall night

So many people seem to be blogging today about soup recipes. With colds and flus going around, I think it’s a great idea. Especially if I could find one that is easy to make on a work night.
Voila!
Vegetable and Tofu Cocunut soup. I bet I could figure out a way to use chicken as well [...]

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Dinner Party Update – Finding Martha

Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions! I have so many recipes to try now – I can’t wait!
An update on the menu: I had decided to make Legeytimate Thoughts’ pumpkin ravioli with butter and sage and Modern Domestic’s rustic apple tart for dessert. But then I learned that one of the couples can’t make it (one-half of that [...]

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Possible Dinner Party

MJD and I are likely having friends over for dinner this weekend which has sent me into a tailspin over what to make. I cook a lot, but I tend to make easy, cheap meals that are fine for dinner on a work night, but seem so lame for dinner with friends. I always say [...]

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Art

MJD and I have what might be a unique problem. We have more art (wedding pictures, family pictures, posters, traditional “art”) than we have wall space. And we pretty regularly buy more, so basically our office/guestroom has become storage for frames and poster tubes.
And now I want this! I know I can’t buy it, so the next best [...]

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New shelves…and Target frustration

OK, I mentioned renovation pictures the other day (oops, that was actually a week ago), but here you go. MJD did all the work, and I watched and tried to be helpful. The biggest success for sure are the shelves he replaced in the dining room. The previous owner had glass shelves that were kind [...]

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Photo Displays

I am loving this Vintage Wednesday post by Ritzy Bee (yes – I still read wedding blogs. No judging me on my blog;-). It reminds me that I really want to get a wedding picture from my parents, and one from MJD’s parents to hang with ours in the living room. We even left one wall [...]

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