a small shop gift guide

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Screen shot 2013-11-30 at 3.38.06 PMgift guide for her 3

Bluebird Lab
Sol Del Sur
Hilary Frazier
Tzunuum
Mmim Designs
A Merry Mishap
Lady Lee and Drew Jones
Colby June
Georgie Cummings
Blackbird and the Owl
Milkhaus Design

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Screen shot 2013-11-30 at 5.38.42 PMfor him

RSVP Hand Crafted
Commandery
Pop Chart Lab
Urban Brewery
Son of Soren
Guarded Goods
Walnut Studio
Prismatic Print Shop

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Screen shot 2013-11-30 at 5.28.24 PMpaper goods

Yellow Button Studio
Toodles Noodles
Joliemade
One Canoe Two
Knot and Bow
Quill and Fox
Hello Small World
Studio KMO

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Screen shot 2013-11-30 at 5.18.14 PMfor the home

Artet Manufacture
Wind and Willow
MB Art Studios
Storie Brooke
The Coastal
Cute Old Things
Goodbye 1979

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The Caramel Jar
Whimsy and Spice
Urban Cheese Craft

♥♥♥

an autumn in boston.

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Well, these might be my favorite photos ever.

Alternative title for this post: BOSTON IN THE FALL // THE LOVELIEST.

I mean, can you even? Is this place real?

{It is! It is!}

This month has been so good. I’ve not been here much, but I certainly have been out there. I’ve been busy at school {always}, playing with friends {best}, enjoying weekend days around the city, and November nights with hot yoga and reading and New Girl and my space heater {DREAM}. All seems right in the world right now and it’s a pretty cozy feeling. Next Wednesday I’ll head home to Syracuse with Zan and my sister for what’s sure to be a Happy Thanksgiving with my family. My Grandma and cousins are coming from Connecticut, and my mom’s sister and her family are traveling to New York from Indiana. I can’t wait to have everyone in the same place eating turkey and stuffing around the table, just being a family and being together. A happy holiday, indeed.

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What will you do for Thanksgiving?
Safe travels to you if you’re going away–
and lucky you if you’re staying at {or close to} home.
A traffic-less holiday is a happy one in my book! :)

dear mom, // a wishlist

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a few ideas, because you asked.

Striped Camera Strap
Pink Geometric Wood Boho Necklace {above}
Faux Dear Antler Jewelry Rack
2014 Illustrated Mini Calendar
Kinfolk Subscription
The Lumineers, on Vinyl

thank you. thank you.
LOVE YOU.

love,
me

around the house…

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This weekend has been all about doing things around the house. In the summer months it seems to get neglected because we’re hardly ever around, and in the fall the upkeep seems to be pushed to the wayside because of back-to-school. So, now that it’s November I figure it’s finally time to get moving on this house business. This weekend I was determined to get it clean and organized, and also tackle a few projects that I’ve had spinning around in my head for awhile.

My main project was to put up shelves in the office. I have so many prints that I’ve been collecting this year, and now I just need a space to put them all! I debated a gallery wall, kind of like this one, but it seemed in my head like it would be too much work. In the past I’ve placed prints and pictures on long wall shelves, which was my hope for this weekend— to put up the shelves easy peasy and VOILA! Instant update. However, this did NOT go as planned. Long story short there are 4 big holes in my wall right now because I AM NOT MEANT FOR THIS KIND OF THING. Apparently. Zan assures me that we’ll get it done and it will work out just fine, but after two days of frustrating mess-ups, I’ve decided to hand the project over to him/beg him to do it and hopefully I’ll have something to show soon. {Fingers crossed.}

Other projects included de-cluttering my dresser {things seem to get thrown there daily without a care!}, color coding my books, and deep cleaning my kitchen. I also took a trip to Ikea to buy some inexpensive frames— for my prints that have nowhere to go— but at least they’ll be all ready as soon as the shelves are in place. {Again, fingers crossed.}

I think my motivation behind all this cleaning/redecorating is that winter is coming, and with that, a lot of time spent indoors. If it’s going to be cold out, and we’re going to need to stay in and keep cozy, might as well be a space that I LOVE.

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Mint flowers cans from IKEA
EAT sign DIY made possible here