Yearly Archives: 2008

We have a tiny kitchen, so everything needs to serve a dual purpose. The cookie drying rack is also a dish rack. The porcelain tart pan is also for baking fish and small chickens. The hand mixer serves as blender, mixer and food processor. And leftovers get put in cheap dishes from Chinatown topped with…

The Pacific Northwest is the perfect place for a weekend trip. Here is Anne’s request: Since you do such great WTWs (and I loved your packing for Paris post, too), I have a question for you. I am going to spend a long weekend in Portland, Oregon at the end of February. Saturday night will…

All is not lost! I just realized that the price tag I had paired with my dream china is actually for the pattern to the left. The $465 Voiles by Puiforcat isn’t what I like at all. Now I just have to track down the real price for that china pattern. Keep your fingers crossed…

Has anyone used Felicite.com to manage their wedding registry? Supposedly, they let you combine your gift registries from different merchants into one online list. It’s all free, except for a 5% fee they take on cash gifts. Good idea? Bad experience? Where did you register?

My vision for the wedding invitations is pretty well sketched out now. I sent this “proof of concept” mock-up to Jordan and she gave it the go-ahead. It’s really rough, so now I’ll need to go back and work out the details for the final version. The text has to be written, fonts need adjusting,…

Rob and I were pretty active with the 2004 election. We walked precincts and got out the vote. I was chair of voter registration at one point and we painted the headquarter office one weekend…and the none of our candidates won and we got a little discouraged. So, I was nervous about volunteering tonight at…

Ugg…Job interviews are so stressful. Picking out what to wear just adds another nuisance to the whole process. Here is Katherine’s request: I’m a newly married graduate student finishing up my last semester before it’s time to get a big girl job. Being both newly married and a graduate student, clothing is not priority when…

I decided to make french onion soup last night in between laundromat trips. My grandmother loved this soup and I had it almost everyday during the last trip to Paris. Step one is to thinly slice four red onions and four leeks. Wearing swim goggles during this step looks totally ridiculous…but then so does getting…

I just mailed the lace sheath of my antique wedding dress down to Los Angeles for cleaning. Tracy was nice enough to take the satin lining out this weekend for me so it could be sent off. Dropping it off at the post office felt like sending a friend into surgery. I’m so nervous about…

Operation girlie weekend was supposed to launch on Friday night. But we got roped into watching Rambo with co-workers. The payback for last weekend’s country fried road trip to Weaverville started on Saturday morning instead! Two days to subject Rob to all my favorite girlie activities. First on the agenda: Gump’s! We took the subway…