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My boyfriend, Austin, and I are extremely excited about Thanksgiving this year. His parents get into town tonight and tomorrow we’re going to go grocery shopping for the big event. This is Austin and I’s first Thanksgiving together (last year we were dating but didn’t spend the holiday together for some reason) and our first Thanksgiving in Chicago. We decided to stay in town for the festivities rather than heading home to Kansas. My work schedule is ridiculous (I’m working noon to midnight on Black Friday), so there’s no way for me to take any time off. I wish that I could have my family up here with me for the holiday, but I understand how unreasonable it is to ask. Hopefully I can get them to travel here for Christmas or maybe I can head home in January for some quality family time. Either way, at least Austin and I have each other.
We picked out our first turkey a couple of days ago. We have no idea what to do with it just yet (remove the neck and the giblets?!), but Austin’s mom will show us how to prepare it on Thanksgiving morning. We’ve decided that we want rolls, pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, and some sort of casserole. We’re putting together a menu tonight so that we’ll know what to buy when we head to the grocery store tomorrow afternoon.
(via Martha Stewart)
What are you cooking for Thanksgiving? Do you get to spend time with your loved ones? I’ve taken for granted the holidays I’ve spent with my family in the past. This year will be the first year without my aunt’s rolls or my grandma’s desserts. More importantly, it will be the first year without the people I love who make the food I love to eat on holidays. Let your family know how much you appreciate them on this Thanksgiving. Fill your bellies and have a great time!
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Michael Fusco and Emma Straub together operate M+E, a design company that specializes in silkscreening posters for bands (The Magnetic Fields and Broken Social Scene to name a couple) and customizing wedding invitations. They live in a gorgeous Brooklyn apartment full of unique prints and bright colors. How could you not feel creative with so much natural light flowing into your apartment? Here’s a video of their place:
Emma & Mike’s Brooklyn Home Tour from David Land on Vimeo.
Eileen Peters, a model and photographer, and Mark Wiesmayr, a creative director, live in an amazing place in Venice Beach. They have an excellent collection of surf boards and make gourmet pizzas at home.
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The Selby is one of my favorite websites simply because they show where creative people create. I love looking at people’s homes and getting ideas for what I’ll do once I have my own house or apartment to decorate without worrying about my landlord’s guidelines or my roommate’s personal style.
Maybe my creative boyfriend and I will be featured on a website someday.
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So, I’ve always been a huge paint by numbers fan. I surprisingly didn’t make too many of them until my college years. My best gal pal during those years was always toting around a paint by number kit. We’d sit for hours at Aimee’s Coffee House in Lawrence, KS joking about having our own art show where we’d showcase all of our “paintings.” She even had hers framed! Well, paint by numbers aren’t only for children and college students with too much time on their hands. They’re for fashionistas and interior decorators as well!
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The fabric on this vintage wooden chair looks like plenty of paint by numbers I painted in the past. How interesting would it be to apply paint by numbers techniques to painting/designing furniture? Sounds like a great family activity to me!
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Fashion designer Berber Soepboer and graphic designer Michiel Schuurman created this paint by numbers dress that comes with a variety of pens. The idea is that women can color in the dress to make it fit their personal style or their handbag.
(via Anthropologie)
Anthropologie created this “Color-Me-Paisley” tote bag that comes with six fabric pens for coloring. It’s now only fifty dollars and perfect for a paint by numbers loving person. Maybe I should pick it up for my college buddy for an early Christmas gift!