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Dishtowels from Lisa Rupp

I love the illustrations printed on these cotton/linen dish towels by Lisa Rupp.

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Butterfly Bush (and photo geekery)

… or is it a butterfly bush? I’m not 100% sure. I’ve seen about 18434920 times more bees on it than I have butterflies. It seems to lure the big fat buzzy bumblebees like nothing else. Not that I’m complaining, bees are awesome. But if any of you other plant-lovers out there can set me [...]

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House Tour Part 3: The After Photos!

Finally, I’m ready to show you our house! Check out part one for the before pictures, and part two for a few shots of the renovations in progress. These photos were taken just as we were moving in. The living room with its newly gleaming floors was painted in Benjamin Moore Whispering Spring. It’s a [...]

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House Tour Part 2: The Renovations

I’ll just show you a few in progress photos before moving on to part three, the after shots! See part one for the before shots. As renovations go, I guess ours were pretty minor. There were two main things we wanted to do: Paint just about everything, and restore the floors to their natural wood [...]

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House Tour Part 1: The Before Photos

I fell in love with this house the moment I saw it. We’d looked at a lot of houses at this point, and we’d even tried to buy two of them (both had severe structural issues that we couldn’t afford to fix right away). There are a lot of cute houses here in Portland, but [...]

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