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So, remember how I told you I collect vintage clocks that don’t work? Well, I also collect coasters that are too small to use.

Lovely, aren’t they? They are approximately the size of poker chips. With winter coming on, I’ve begun to question the wisdom of owning three sets of coasters, none of which is big enough to support a mug.

I’ve been poking around Etsy trying to resolve the situation, and here’s what I found: Read the rest »

I used to save our pretty dishtowels to hang attractively from the oven door. Then, when someone spilled something, and my husband reached for a conveniently located towel to mop it up, I’d screech, “DONTUSETHATONE!”

Shortly, I realized that chastening my family for using dishtowels to wipe things up was insane. I solved the problem by gradually replacing our utilitarian dishtowels with pretty ones, and breathing more deeply when people used them for their intended purpose.

The upside to routinely staining dishtowels is that I can spend more time lusting after the handmade versions on Etsy. Hello, darlings:

Hand Printed Linen Tea Towel

$12 from Leanne Graeff

Oranges Flour Sack Kitchen Towel

$10 from Ink Lore

Orange Chrysanthemum Tea Towel

$12 from Flower Press

Ice Cream Lollies Tea Towel

$16 from The Mr. PS Shop

Big Breakfast Tea Towel

$16 from The Mr. PS Shop

When you’re having cocktails on the deck, it’s such a very long way to the kitchen. We thought about getting a mini fridge, but decided a bar cart would be so much more civilized, and versatile. We picked up a cart at a flea market, and now I’m figuring out how to equip it: Read the rest »

We didn’t own a wine rack until we were married, mostly because we were spending our wine-rack money on actual wine. Now that we have a little cabin near the wine country, storing our wine in cardboard boxes feels like an affront to the community.

Is your wine sitting upright on a high shelf in your warm kitchen? That’s not what I want for you, my friend. Here are some wine rack options for folks who like their corks moist, their wine aged, and their afternoons lazy. Read the rest »

This is our collection of clocks that don’t work.

We bought the middle one at an antiques market in Buenos Aires. Then my husband went to China on a work trip and brought back the dazzling Communist Ballerinas Clock–which Read the rest »