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Category: House & Home

If you think ripping a book apart is blasphemy, you’re not going to want to read any farther. But if you’re perfectly

As of today, there are 987 posts in the MMD archives. According to my highly unscientific calculations, this is the

Last year, Will and I got our kids’ favorite Christmas gifts on Craigslist. We didn’t set out to have a Craigslist

I’m a huge fan of subscription services for household goods. I’d rather not devote my (limited) brain space to figuring out whether or

(Warning: if you’re horrified at the idea of ripping a book to shreds in the name of a cutesy DIY

shown: my desk. not shown: the dreaded piles of papers As I’m sitting down to write this, I’ve just spent

We’ve been half-heartedly searching for a new kitchen table for months. Our old one (visible in this instagram shot) was

Five months ago today, we moved out of our first home. (I can barely believe it’s been five whole months

I’ve loved to cook since I was in grade school. As an adult, I go through seasons of creatively experimenting

I’ve had a post bumping around in my head for a while now about trigger points: I’m talking about those metaphorical buttons

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