On Friday I finished my 11th quilt. It's the smallest (38×32 inches) and the least perfect but easily one of my favorites. I decided to skip all the tedious parts of quilting for this one. No measuring, almost no pinning, almost no ironing. I realized my favorites parts of quilting are picking out the fabrics,…

I am excited to share the Valentine's Day cards we are sending out this year (to our families and Ellerie's little friends!) This post is the fourth in my partnership with Canon USA and a project I was really looking forward to trying. I printed these on my Canon MG7520. I really wanted to play…

I love the Internet. This is some of the interesting stuff I recently saw online… loved seeing my flamingo print in this beautiful little girls' bedroom. Gmail is even smarter than I thought. sweet and simple tips for a better year. it's quite likely we're going to drown in kiddo stuff so I loved this…

My name is Elise. I live in San Diego, California with my husband Paul and our two young daughters, Ellerie and Piper. When I started this blog in December 2005, I was a single girl in the middle of her junior year of college at USC. I was a business major and surrounded by a…

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Starting on my 30th birthday, I will be completing and sharing 30 DIY projects on the blog. All of them will be given away, either to a friend, through a random giveaway, auction-ed off with the proceeds donated and whatever else I can come up. You can read more about this project here and follow…

I became a mother at 3:46pm on June 20, 2013. For the first year of my daughter’s life I wrote her near weekly letters to help myself cope, adjust and enjoy this insane new job. I was humbled to my core and continue to be awestruck by my sweet girl.   This is my year-long…

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