Home sweet home.
I don’t know about you, but one of my New Year’s resolutions this year (and every year) is to keep in closer touch with the people I care about — the old-fashioned way. To incentivize myself to follow through on this resolution, I’m planning to invest in some cute stationery that I’ll look forward to pulling out when it’s time to catch up on my correspondence. Enter Yellow Owl Read more
Dying is a tricky business. Die young, and you never grow old or experience loss, but live long and you'll have to watch friends and family suffer. In many ways, being left behind is the worst, especially when the departed sends letters from the grave. One dying mother in England left not notes but a wish list for her sons and husband. Eat together, be on time, make up after a fight, treat Read more
This is one of the reasons I can't wait to watch Selling NYC! Manhattanite Stephanie Hubbard granted the NY Daily News a peek into her swank Tribeca loft and it does not disappoint. The spunky NYC banking mother of two knows how to use pop while bringing sophistication home. I could point out a thousand fun things that she's done with the place but one of my favorites may be her simple use of Read more
While the typography trend continues to truck along, a new trend of decorating with letters, often consonants and syllables from vintage signs, has arisen. Personally, I find it kind of cheesy to decorate with initials — a big "C.S." on my wall is just not my style. But I'd happily put a less self-referential letter in my home if it were eye-catching like this vibrant red T. Putting a letter in Read more
Director John Hughes, who passed away Thursday at age 59, made a big impact on those of us who grew up watching his films and crushing on his characters. But he made an even bigger impact on Alison Byrne Fields: he was her pen pal. As she recounts on her blog, We'll Know When We Get There, Fields and Hughes sent letters back and forth between 1985 and 1987, after Alison poured her heart out to Read more
I really do love the vintage alphabet blocks I found last year, which would go perfectly in a little geek-in-training nursery. But since I'm not planning to add to my family anytime soon, I wanted to find a more grown-up, flashier alternative for my apartment. So when I stumbled upon these letters, I realized the missing component was — lights! Now I'm totally craving these Marquee Alphabet Read more
There's no reason that you need to restrain your fondness for the written language to your bookshelf. Letters look equally lovely when scrawled across rugs, stitched upon pillows, or hung on your wall. To see some of my favorite alphabetic additions, read more Read more
These Giant Orgy Letters ($1,800), which are actually Goodyear Tire sign letters from the 1940s, might give your mother a heart attack if you displayed them as-is in (or outside) your home. But, let's not do that, okay? For this challenge, I'd like you to tell me how you'd use the (ahem) excessively indulgent letters as décor without inflicting cardiac arrest on your relatives and neighbors. Read more
I have a box of stationery that sits on my desk and never gets used. Aside from the occasional thank-you note, I never sit at my desk and just pour my feelings out onto a sheet of paper with pen and ink. Everything important gets an email — which is also what the New York Times is saying this week, as well as questioning what happens when emails don't get received. A lost email though, will Read more
The following complaint letter to Continental Airlines kvetching about being seated next to the lavatory can only be described as "epic." You can practically smell those yucky blue toilet chemicals that are supposed to make bathroom stench go away but instead intensify the stink. Complete with drawings and writing that Dostoevsky would have tipped his hat to, this letter is also freaking Read more
