Catherine from @DCCL's Profile

A fellow Alexandrian (and Parkfairfax resident, perhaps? looks possible from the window) with great taste! I'll have to live vicariously through you since I didn't get my act together in time to enter this year, but we share a love for navy paint and egg crate and faux branch jewelry holders. Love your coral bed and lamp!

I posted about the pair of coral lamps too! They're so fun!

I'm all about the maximalist bedrooms, but my husband's more into the minimalist ones. Sigh. Must compromise...

Name: My Favorite and My Best
URL: http://www.myfavoriteandmybest.com/

Name: Peppermint Bliss
URL: http://www.peppermintbliss.com/

Name: Live Creating Yourself
URL: http://www.livecreatingyourself.com/

Name: Bijou and Boheme
URL: http://bijouandboheme.blogspot.com/

Name: Young House Love
URL: http://www.younghouselove.com/

Beautiful use of your time and talents!

The Carly Chair is surprisingly cool for C&B. It's sort of Jonathan Adler-ish for people with smaller budgets. Like!

@Kaz I read in one study that talking on a cell phone--whether hands-free or not--diminishes your reaction time way more than talking to someone in the car. I'm not really sure why. I think they said it's because talking on a cell phone requires more concentration since you don't have the benefit of non-verbal cues.

Always, I just thought I'd share since you asked.

These are beautiful. I like the idea of mixing and matching, but you're right, you'll be happy with whatever you choose.

My husband is completely starch-free because he has some pretty serious inflammation issues, but he's indicated that he's probably going to partake on Thanksgiving (this will be the first turkey day on the diet). I don't think his southern grandmother would be very receptive to altering her traditional recipes, so he'd basically be eating a lot of turkey otherwise.

I'm going to bring a dessert from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook so he can enjoy something sweet without worrying about how he'll feel later. I highly recommend the cookbook for people who are catering to others with dietary restrictions (or those cooking for themselves, obviously). All the recipes are gluten-free, many are completely starch-free, and a bunch are vegan. We've enjoyed some excellent recipes from there (though, of course, there were some flops too...).

http://www.amazon.com/Gluten-Free-Almond-Flour-Cookbook/dp/158761345X

As someone who now cooks starch-free all the time but not for myself, I have to say that I'd be pretty crushed if we couldn't have mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, etc on Thanksgiving because of his diet. If I were hosting I'd certainly make sure there were some dishes just for him, but I wouldn't be willing to toss out all of the traditional stuff just because he couldn't eat it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who craves the most traditional food on this particular holiday!

I like this idea! It could be really striking!