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Could you please provide a source for the artwork above the desk (between the computers)? Thanks!

http://news.consumerreports.org/appliances/2011/04/which-appliances-are-made-in-the-usa.html

If the author had chosen more mainstream, "American brands" there is a good chance they wouldn't have been made in the US either.

Wow. Filing this away as inspiration for my new apartment! So lovely!

What is the consistency of store-bought toffee bits? I've never had them before but these cookies look divine. Could I make homemade toffee and just break it up into teeny tiny bits as a substitute?

The pup is a cute one. My guess would be more of a maltese or havanese mix. Bichon's have curly coats.

Porch Swing: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2010/07/porch-swing/

(Spring/Summer wedding) Easy enough that we could make giant pitchers of it and tasted great. In hindsight I wish we would have made double the amount we did because it was such a hit that we ran out of it during cocktail hour!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Telephone was trying to make the point that sometimes we should just experience something without feeling the need to constantly document our entire lives with photo and video. While I would make use of my tripod and remote to take a photo, I agree that a video of fireworks is a little silly (referring to Telephone's story of teenagers taking video on their phones, not the camera-test video that appears in this blog which was shot for a specific purpose, to test the camera). I can't think of a time that I would ever watch that again.

Gorgeous gorgeous home and I haven't had time to read the comments to see if this was addressed but I noticed the a lilly in the bedroom. I couldn't tell if it was fake but I hope so, as lillies are extremely poisonous to cats - even inhaling the pollen can give them nasty kidney problems.

http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/plants/lily.aspx

Are you kidding me? I saw this on Pinterest and thought the same thing then - is it really that hard to give each shelf a quick spray with diluted vinegar and wipe it down? In fact, it probably takes less time to do that than it does to lay down some ugly plastic wrap. This is also incredibly wasteful.

Living in brooklyn, sans car, puts us in the "european/urban" way of shopping. There are three grocery stores, two fruit/veggie places within walking distance of my apartment (and I live in a not-so-nice area), and on my lunch break at work I regularly stop at the health food grocery store or other specialty shops near my job. Since I don't always have time to shop daily, carrying even a few days worth of groceries is NOT glamorous. However, I do count myself lucky in the variety of stores and foods that are so easy to get to.