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around the house
tis the season Ah, I love DC in the spring. The temperature shifts from 40 degrees to 85 degrees (in one day) are enought to make you feel like you have malaria not to mention the daily dusting of yellow-green tree pollen all over EVERYTHING. That said, it’s better than winter and I get to [...]
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weekend update
VA vinyard Since yesterday was the first free day that the husband and I have had off AND the with weather cooperating (cloudless and 70 degrees), we headed out to Purcellville, VA (about 45 minutes outside of DC). Amid rolling hills and horse farms, stands Sunset Hills Vinyard. I had read about this vinyard in the Washington Post [...]
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christmas decor
yay trees! I am very proud of my growing Christmas tree forest of magic and have likely explained my Christmas decoration habit to many of you, but for those unfamiliar, here goes (don’t call the psych ward). Rather than decorating my entire house with Christmas chachkis, I generally limit myself to the tree and ornament [...]
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photography
more from Instagram I am really loving this iPhone app – I love playing with all the filters and it is so user friendly. I have been taking pictures all over DC and here are a few of my latest. (from left to right: photo one is a shot looking out of the newseum through [...]
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My new toy
instagram app Since I have gotten an iPhone, I feel like I am constantly in the app store searching for cool new toys to play with. After reading some reviews on other design blogs, I decided to try the “instagram” app. It is essentially a camera app that applies filters and effects to your shots. [...]
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world architecture wednesday
boxwood winery Architect: Jacobsen Architecture Location: Middleburg, VA Key Facts: Surrounded by scenic landscape and horse farm estates, the former owner of the Washington Redskins, John Kent Cooke, and his family decided to “retire” and start a winery. After sending their daughter to Napa and Bordeaux for a wine-making education, they hired Hugh Newell Jacobsen [...]
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CT applooza!
This weekend I spent up in my home state of CT with the hubby who grudgingly drove me up here while I slept. We got to go to the Big E yesterday, a New England county-type fair, and today we enjoyed the crisp fall weather while picking macoun apples (a local treat not available down [...]
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travel photos
Mischief in Minnesota! This past weekend, I visited Minneapolis for the first time. Essentially, a couple of college friends and their significant others met up in the Twin Cities for a long weekend. I was glad for the respite from the DC swamp that is July and August as last weekend was especially hot and [...]
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out and about in the DC area
sightseeing Between friends visiting Memorial Day weekend and my mom visiting this past weekend, I have gotten to do a lot of sightseeing that a lot of DC residents don’t ever seem to get around to doing. I think there is a certain mentality that one will get to it eventually since it is in [...]
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project update
celebration at the cupcake shop! Last evening, my office metro’d over to the eastern market neighborhood of DC to have a happy hour celebration at the soon-to-be-opened cupcake shop! There were, of course, cupcakes and some champagne to get the shop and the client geared up for business! We took a tour of the nearly [...]
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