Meredith & Gwyneth, The New Yorkie
adventures in making NYC feel like home
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 [...]
May 1st marks a fresh start. And for The New Yorkies, May 1st marks a fresh start with a personal update and a new design challenge! (Go straight to paragraph 4 if you’d like to skip the mushy stuff!) When Gwyneth and I moved to North Carolina from NYC a little over four months ago, [...]
Back in high school, I tortured my Mother every morning by asking her what I should wear to school. And every morning she would torture me right back by answering, “Jeans and a white shirt.” The world’s most classic outfit just wouldn’t do for for an event as important as a day of learning, and [...]
What a difference an entryway can make. As we shared in Part II of our North Carolina Home Tour, the transition from NYC to North Carolina hasn’t exactly been a cakewalk. But in finishing up the tiny “entryway” of our new home yesterday, Gwyneth and I got a big reminder that if we can practice [...]
Last week Gwyneth and I shared the Part I of our NC home tour, and today we’re back for Part II – the living room. As with our Expedit bookcase, we’ve tried to find new uses for the same pieces we had in our New York apartment. Unlike our bookcase post, you’ll see a few [...]
Today’s post has nothing to do with decorating or DIY-ing and everything to do with making a house (or an apartment) feel like home. In honor of Gwyneth’s 3rd birthday today, we’re sharing the story of how we found each other and our early days together – days when my little dumpster diver looked like [...]
