Category: lets get personal
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Why We Don’t Have Our Rugs USA Line Anymore
So so so many of you have DM’d or commented asking a lot of questions about what happened to our rug line – why am I not on the site anymore, and do some of our rugs have a new name? It’s been confusing, and until now I wasn’t able to share (and hoped to…
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Our 10-Day Family Trip To Belize – Highlights, Good To Knows, And Why I’d Choose Belize Over Hawaii
This trip to Belize felt like our first entry into traveling with the kids, not vacation. We didn’t “backpack” (only carry-ons, though), we stayed in nicer hotels (not bunk room hostels), and we had a fully planned agenda (by yours truly), but the spirit of “travel” was there. We moved around, saw so much of…
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Our Work Retreat in Wine Country (And Some Thoughts On Running The Business 15 Years In)…
Oh, how I love a team retreat – I get both excited and nervous and afterwards feel both so full and exhausted (in a good way!). Like all aspects of our lives, Zoom is never a substitute for in-person (IRL) connection. I have found that, like a long-distance romance, the more time we go without…
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Our Work Retreat in Wine Country (And Some Thoughts On Running The Business 15 Years In)…
Oh, how I love a team retreat – I get both excited and nervous and afterwards feel both so full and exhausted (in a good way!). Like all aspects of our lives, Zoom is never a substitute for in-person (IRL) connection. I have found that, like a long-distance romance, the more time we go without…
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How To NOT Design Your Kid’s Room – A Cautionary Tale
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I love a good cautionary tale, where you get to hear how someone else messed up their life in the name of you avoiding repeating their mistake. I hesitate to write this like I do all things where I have to go back on a design decision, but it has come up a lot with…
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Our Costa Rica Spring Break Itinerary (2 Years Ago) With Quite Possibly The Most Magical Family-Friendly “Hotel” Ever…
I’ve been gatekeeping this for two years – (accidentally). When we got back from Costa Rica, Spring break 2023, my review to my friends and family was a level of enthusiasm they had never witnessed – “FIFTEEN OUT OF TEN,” I exclaimed. I planned the whole thing (turns out I either love control or I…