Odds & Ends
Dog Days of Summer
The rest of you out there who are expecting to suffer through record high temperatures this weekend (Richmond’s forecast calls for a high of 98, heat index of 105 today - whew), we thought this little video might help make weathering the heat a little more bearable. Here’s Burger’s cool down routine after a [...]
IKEA Tells It Like It Is
Newsflash: Home is the most important place in the world. At least, that’s what IKEA is telling me.
Apparently IKEA just completed a “landmark study” where they surveyed Americans to find out what our homes mean to us. The study is peppered with some interesting facts - like that the #1 bedroom activity for Americans is [...]
HGTV’s “Green” Home
If you’ve caught any HGTV lately, then you already know about their Green Home sweepstakes. Just like their annual Dream Home giveaway, you can enter (once a day through tomorrow, by the way) to win an extravagant home in a gorgeous location (holy property taxes, batman). The obvious twist this time is that [...]
Another Dirty Little Secret
We’ve been sneaky. No, not living-a-double-life sneaky… secret-vacation sneaky. That’s right. John and I quietly slipped away to a tiny series of islands off the west coast of Florida and have spent the past seven days swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, eating boatloads of seafood, blogging from the beach, and working on our tans [...]
Hue Knew?
While celebrating Easter in Northern Virginia, my parents dropped a copy of The Washington Post in my lap that featured a BIG collection of articles on the blog world’s recent love affair with paint color. Blogs? Paint? Yes please.
The lead article focuses on two colorful blogs. (And no, This Young House wasn’t [...]
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