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At the start of the year, I decided I needed a desk. All my activities—writing for work, blogging, painting , sewing , and the new kid on ...

Beset by the winter blues and a strange restlessness during the last few weeks of January, I felt a change was in order. While leafing thro...

This week on MangoJuiced, I make a case for the stay-at-home Valentine date . If I was living in Manila, I could wrap up the argument for a ...

Holly Becker’s blog  Decor8  is one of the most successful interior design blogs in the blogosphere today, and one of my regular sources of ...

I stayed in this Istanbul apartment last October—and I loved it so much, I "stole" something to take home with me. Can you guess w...

I've been searching for something graphic, bright and fun to perk up our mostly neutral living room. Turns out all I had to do was look ...

What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before? LIVED IN EUROPE. (This is the big one!) Traveled in Europe without having to ap...

My appetite for travel is something that I most definitely inherited from my mom. While I was growing up, if she wasn't jetting off to a...

I'm such a Christmas junkie that I put our home through not one, but two phases of Christmas decorating. I started out with dried and pl...

As I've blogged about in this week's post on MangoJuiced , I've gotten over the whole matchy-matchy Christmas tree. I've sta...

Remember the wineglass chandelier that we got in April? It recently became the target of my Christmas decorating frenzy. I had something ...

Here in the Netherlands, Christmas plays second fiddle to Sinterklaas, which is on the 6th of December. This means that any form of Christma...

Palazzo Plazo reached maximum occupancy this summer with the arrival of not one, not two, nope not even three, but five guests! My friends...