The Rose Vase Habits That Save a Bouquet
I was standing at the kitchen sink last Tuesday tipping a week’s worth of vase water down the drain, and it came out in that thick, slightly ropy way that…
Living Room Display Cabinet Ideas
I bought my first proper display cabinet in 1994, a monstrous oak thing with brass hardware that the delivery men hated me for, and I filled it, within about a…
Glass Display Cabinet Ideas
Glass display cabinets have a reputation problem, and I get it. Say the phrase out loud and most people picture their grandmother’s dining room, a locked cabinet full of Hummel…
Flower Vase Habits for Longer Blooms
I counted them a few months back, out of pure morbid curiosity, and then wished I hadn’t. Forty one. Forty one vases, sitting in cupboards, on top of the fridge,…
Dressing Table Drawer Organization
I counted for a week, actual tally, little tick marks on a Post it stuck to my mirror. Fourteen times a day, on average, I open the top drawer of…
Donut Vase Ideas
I own eleven donut vases. Eleven. I counted them properly last Sunday while unpacking a box from my last move, sitting on my kitchen floor surrounded by ceramic rings like…
Dining Room Display Cabinet Ideas
I was standing on a kitchen chair at seven this morning, in my robe, holding a gravy boat I hadn’t touched since Thanksgiving 2019, trying to figure out if it…
Making Fake Flowers Look Real in a Clear Vase
Okay so here’s the reputation fake flowers in a clear vase have, and it’s earned, I’m not going to pretend it isn’t. Cheap stems, cloudy plastic water, that one gerbera…
Ceramic Vase Ideas
I bought my first ceramic vase off a pottery marketplace site four years ago, before I knew anything, and the listing said fourteen inches tall. I remember because I measured…
What Goes in the Bottom of a Wood Burning Fire Pit
Seven. I own seven wood burning fire pits, which is a sentence I did not expect to type with a straight face when I started writing this, and yet here…