Category: Honor Roll

• So nice to see Anna’s home through Victoria’s photos. It’s amazing how different a home can look when shot by someone else!

• These vintagey paintings are lovely.

• How to pose like a fashion blogger.

• Former Lucky editor Kim France is blogging for girls of a certain age.

• I want to create a fairy garden for the kids, but this one raises the bar considerably.

• Everything I wish I could be.
  [via Design Crush]

• I’m already a smidge into (OK, way into) miniatures, so these solid wood bookends with tiny landscapes on top are calling to me.

• A Soul Bird would be a suitable gift for a lot of occasions both happy and sad, and it’s a beautiful display piece.

• How cute would this little cable car toy be for passing notes back and forth?

• These matching father and son tie and bow-tie sets are the cutest.

• I want a few of these in every color.

• After a few trial issues, it’s official: HGTV Magazine is here to stay!

• May the force be with you, and also help keep your tie in place.

We’re giving away a custom work of art for new parents from Little Cord Art. Enter to win here.

I’m in Toronto, checking off a few Lovely Life List items. Crossing the Canadian border… check. Giving a keynote speech… that’s happening tomorrow at BlogPodium. I’m excited (and a smidge nervous)!

I’ll be taking Monday off to spend some time with my family after being away this Memorial Day weekend, so I’ll be back here Tuesday. In the meantime, here are the things that have made this week’s Honor Roll.

• Vanity Fair has rereleased their Impossible Interviews from the 1930s as on online exclusive.
  p.s. I feel like this series is their modern counterpart: short imagined dialogues.

• This garden shed designed by Orla Kiely is as cute as you’d expect.

• What’s that you say? You haven’t yet had your fill of Orla? Oh, all right. Here you go!

• Comma rules rule. I like to think that my grammar is pretty solid, but I picked up a few things.

• “You only need one confetti [ring] to remember the party.”

• I want two Clump-O-Lumps. One each for Eleanor and August.
  Plus, two is just way more fun. Gotta mix ’em up!

• Turn your recycling into truly recycled toys. Clever!
  There are some cute stickers to be had here, but I also got a lot of crafty project ideas.

• Hello, glittering shoes of awesomeness.

• Upside down Ns — they’re everywhere, gah!

• I love a good business card, don’t you? (p.s. My new cards still make me smile when I hand one out.)

• This photo series will blow you away.

• ZOMG. Can you imagine picking up a hitchhiking John Waters?

• Please let the new Mindy Kaling project be good.
  (I kind of love her.)

• My favorite indoor/outdoor rugs. I bought one for the basement and I’ll write about it here next week. Can you guess which one?
  not so subtle hint —————>

• An end table for geeks! I want one.

• Have you seen the new web series, Olive Us? It’s really sweet.

• The new Orla Kiely line for Bed, Bath & Beyond is out.

• I’ve started writing a column for Better Homes and Gardens’ new Style Spotters blog! My first post featured graphic flat-weave rugs.
  (I guess I’ve been on a rug kick this week?)

I write for Glidden’s My Colortopia, and right now they’re partnering with Circle of Moms for a Dream Nursery Giveaway inspired by What to Expect When You’re Expecting (only in theaters).

Check out the nursery I designed, and enter to win!

• This is why you should have a life list, à la Maggie. (Here’s mine.)

• On business and motherhood.

• I wish this camera was real.

• The best take on a flying carpet ever.

• This font automatically makes different charts (pie charts, bar graphs, etc.) out of the numbers you type out. Makes me wish I had some infographics to prepare.

• Oh yeaahh!

• I suppose I should have posted this book on May the Fourth, eh?

• Now you’re cooking with gas charcoal! (Every year, I want this grill.)

• A whole bunch of cute, affordable ways to update your bathroom.

• Do you ever try to match shoes with your kids?

• Oooh, burn!

• Editors vs. writers.
  (And a good excuse to use a Tim and Eric gif. Plus, you guys saw this bonanza, linked to in a post Honor Roll, right?)

• The song! The story!

• Adobe CS6 will be out soon. (Ouch, I got a bit of sticker shock when I saw it would take $750 to upgrade from CS5!). Here’s a look at what goes into the branding and packaging.

• Free Instagram filters as Photoshop actions. ‘Cause if you’ve ponied up for Photoshop, free feels good.

• Watch a tiny Rube Goldberg machine that makes postcards.

• A first look at the upcoming Nate Berkus collection for Target! Will you be waiting in line for his new line? Or shopping online? Or laying it all on the line?
  (OK, I don’t know what that last one is supposed to mean.)

• Such a pretty spring jacket.

• I rounded up the best clothespin and peg dolls. Some are just for inspiration, some are for sale, and all are pretty darn cute.

• 8 wardrobe pieces worth investing in. Agree? Disagree?

• Here’s how I kept the same paint color and turned a girl’s nursery into a boy’s.

We’re giving away a $30 credit for jewelry from Poshlocket. Enter to win on Making it Lovely’s Facebook page.

• How Technicolor works (and how some silver shoes famously became ruby slippers).

• Want to be a writer? Or a blogger? Or pursue something of any sort, really? Here’s why more time isn’t always the answer.

• A closer look at font rendering.

• These two time-lapse videos of kids growing up (made by their dad) are amazing. Watching them made me a little teary, because seriously, it goes by so fast. Eleanor will be three this weekend already.

• This 17-year-old fashioned a handmade cardboard dress for prom? Awesome.

• Do you mostly follow people or brands on Pinterest? Or a combination? I put together a roundup of the 25 best brands to follow on Pinterest. Leave a comment on the post if I’ve missed any of your favorites!

• Whoa, stellar constellation embroidery kits. I want to make a million of them.

• Right after I make a million of these neon pink and gold notebooks.

• I’m digging Land of Nod’s newest collection, plus they’re offering free shipping on furniture.

• Bedding for kids obsessed with horses. Like Eleanor.

• For your alliterative/miniature/gardening enjoyment: Teeny Tiny Terrarium Tools at Terrain.