Honor Roll

• This home is quite different from what I’m usually drawn to, but it’s beautiful.

• Lovely little lies.

• Less lovely: lies writers tell themselves.

• Why we should memorize. (I’m filing the ‘poem lines for a penny’ trick away to use for Eleanor and August in a few years.)

• Open call for Chicagoland artists to paint murals along the Oak Park L walls.

• Nominations for The Homies on Apartment Therapy start today.

• Just like the kind you buy at McDonald’s…”

• I like white walls. Really, I do! Just maybe not when they’re in my house. Victoria is pulling them off well.

• Alt Summit is known for its great topics, friendly bloggers, cute fashion, and yes, those amazing business cards.

• These play tents are so much nicer than the primary-colored plastic monstrosity we have upstairs.

• Chess nerds, meet typography nerds.

• You can get DJ Lance’s shoes for your kids. Because walking around wearing orange shoes is… AWESOME!

• Grandma crafts meet technology with these needlepoint iPhone cases.

• The prettiest storage bins.

• It’s a coffee table. It’s a dollhouse. It’s both! And it’s a brilliant solution for small spaces with kids.

This week, enter to win a striped bamboo throw ($150 value) from Nine Space. Good luck!