Meredith & Gwyneth, The New Yorkie
adventures in making NYC feel like home
The best coffee table books are filled with beautiful images, say something about you and your home, inspire conversation with guests and of course, look good in your living room. Gwyneth and I can’t think of a better addition to any dog lover’s coffee table than Canine Chronicles: 1900 – 2000, A Century of History’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When John Mellencamp wrote “Hurts So Good,” he must have been working at his girlfriends’ contemporary clothing boutique. Because those lyrics perfectly capture how I feel when I go to photograph the new arrivals at Gena Chandler. Since moving back to Raleigh, I’ve been spending time in my dream closet helping out my girlfriends Gena [...]
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 [...]
