Meredith & Gwyneth, The New Yorkie
adventures in making NYC feel like home
This weekend Gwyneth and I put the finishing touches on the DIY-Filled Home Office we took on as our “May Design Challenge.” Yes, we realize it’s June 10th, so we’re a bit tardy to the party. But along with our home office project we had another development keeping us busy last month – A development [...]
Choosing color, mixing patterns and piling on the accessories aren’t the only things that our approaches to getting dressed and decorating have in common. Adding subtle irony, or “a wink” is one of our favorite ways to amp up the personality of our ensembles and our environment. Like wearing satin peep-toe d’Orsay heels with ripped boyfriend [...]
As y’all know, I style the photo shoots for one of my favorite clothing boutiques, Gena Chandler. While I put together the looks, I do my best to ignore the sounds of the beautiful pieces telling me that they’d like to go home with me. This financially responsible approach does come with risk, however. Because [...]
When Gwyneth and I started our May design challenge of creating a “Dream Blogger’s DIY Home Office”, we knew that finding pretty and practical ways to store our supplies would need to be a priority. While we’ve put our DIY Union Jack Trunk to good use, our arsenal of DIY supplies runneth over. You know that we have [...]
If your Mom is as fashion forward as mine is, and you want to give her a handmade gift, then this DIY’s for you! Our dear blogging friend, Kelly from Live Laugh Rowe has created a series of great handmade Mother’s Day DIY Gifts, and you’ll want to check each of them out too! (Yesterday [...]
Last week’s DIY Union Jack Trunk was a colorblocked combination of modern and vintage, and today’s outfit is too. We didn’t set out to dress like our latest DIY; apparently the connection between decorating and getting dressed runs deeper and more subconsciously than we thought. Our Oleg Cassini colorblocked sundress was a Brooklyn vintage store [...]
If you saw yesterday’s post, then you saw that Gwyneth and I have given ourselves a design challenge for the month of May – to create our “Dream DIY Blogger’s Office.” And today, we’re excited to share the first DIY project for the room – our new DIY Union Jack Trunk! (One project down, several [...]
