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How to Create a Home That Feels Like You (opens the original)
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This is part of the Well-Designed Life series, a framework for creating & inhabiting your dream life. Think of this as a field guide for self-discovery, style excavation, and living with intentionality, creativity, and joy.Back in February, the WDL post was entirely about figuring out your own unique aesthetic—not the one handed down to you from an algorithm or an influencers or anyone e
The Ultimate Autumn Watchlist (2026 Edition) (opens the original)
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What to Read Next if You Re-Watch Practical Magic Every Fall (opens the original)
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Not to be too much of a 2010s hipster about it, but I liked Practical Magic before it was cool. I remember watching it on TV sometime in the early 2000s, before I knew how famous Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman were. All I knew was that I loved it, I wanted their house, and I wanted to be a witch when I grew up.I also remember being really deeply affected by the scene where Sally’s husband… well, you know… Something about the oranges rolling around in the street afterwards really really freaked
How to Fall in Love With Your Life (opens the original)
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever spent way too much time doomscrolling on Instagram or TikTok, lamenting the fact that your life doesn’t look like the perfect influencers you follow?🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️I think this is something we can all relate to at some point or another. Before influencers, it was glossy teen lifestyle and fashion mags. Different flavor, same sense of somehow missing out.I felt this way for years. Follow each trend, heaven forbid if you can’t afford to buy each shiny new it thing. C
The August Edit (opens the original)
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August was a whirlwind, to say the least. It started with closing on our new home in Michigan, and when the dust settled on the month, we were completely moved in, 99% of boxes were unpacked, and our lives looked very, very different.A little backstory: my husband and I first moved to Chicago in 2018. We lived there for two years, then moved back to Michigan during the pandemic in August 2020, because it felt like the world was ending. Once everyone more or less emerged from that period of time,
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