
I read this post by Erin Loechner, who writes the blog Design for Mankind, last week and have been thinking about it ever since. When I first started blogging, I did it sporadically and unintentionally. I didn’t schedule time to blog or seek out inspiration per se. I would blog when I felt like it, [...]
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This will be the first time (ever!) that Matt won’t be spending Christmas with his family in Ohio. He’ll be spending it with his family here in San Francisco — that’s me and our soon-to-be-here (though please don’t get here too soon!) baby girl. In the months leading up to the holidays, I’ve been trying [...]
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Here we go. I blinked and there went Thanksgiving. And now, we’re weeks away from Christmas and New Year’s and I’m still shopping for gifts, trying to figure out what we’ll do on New Year’s Eve, and thinking about how much baking I can physically cram into the next few weeks. There’s a frantic nature [...]
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A quick heads up to all who are interested in subscribing to the Pairings Box: we are currently SOLD OUT of the December Pairings Box. But, don’t despair! If you’d like to subscribe to the Pairings Box: Check back on December 15th; that’s when we’ll be opening up subscriptions, beginning with the January Pairings Box. [...]
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I used to be quite good at getting out of the house well before noon on the weekends. I would virtually jump out of bed with a mission: to not waste a second of a beautiful morning. I’d shower, spend only a few minutes quickly checking my emails, and look at Matt, usually on the [...]
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The day after Thanksgiving, Matt and I drove out to Half Moon Bay to get in on the season’s first crabs, buying them directly from the fishermen. For about six glorious weeks, the Bay Area enjoys a bounty of Dungeness Crab, and we just can’t get enough. During this time, you can find crabs at [...]
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Have you checked out the TK Market recently? It’s our online shop for TK goodies and it’s a great place to hit for gifts for yourself or someone else on your holiday shopping list. Among the items you’ll find in the Market are soft tees featuring some rad designs created for us by Amanda Jane [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I’m a firm believer in having a house full of good books that don’t just live in my iPad or eReader. I have always loved the feel of a hard cover, the smell of paper and ink, and the way that a physical book looks on a bookshelf. Even [...]
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Listen, right now is really not the time to start your diet, so let’s talk about hot chocolate and get on with it. Now that Thanksgiving is over, I think it’s officially Christmas — at least that’s how it feels. Already, Christmas trees adorn many of our neighborhood windows, store displays have been dressed up [...]
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Did you have a good Thanksgiving? I hope you’re good and stuffed; we certainly are! We made this roasted acorn squash dish, slow-roasted green beans, and an incredible brown butter apple tart from the Thanksgiving issue of Bon Appetit, among a ton of other side dishes. If you’d like to bookmark a good turkey recipe for [...]
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