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It's Christmas!

The aforementioned purge has begun, dumping furniture in favor of smaller pieces. Our old bookcase fit cozily into its nook, but was more book storage than we needed. Let's be honest, we can't read.

See some before and after action: click here

It only took a year, but we finally got around to switching out our vintage (but too big) desk for a sleek new Parsons desk. There'll be more too--we've begun the process of dumping other furniture that's too large for the space for more petite pieces. In the beginning, we just wanted things to fit from molding to molding so the rooms would look "done," but now that our place has enough to look lived in, we can put things in that fit better overall. As for the desk, we've wanted this one for a long time, and the next project is a take-no-prisoners wire cleanup.

I never really got to highlight my old sewing desk, and now I need to because it's gone, sold into the great blue Craigslist yonder. It had to go since I stopped sewing and never use a desk anyway, and in its place will hopefully be something way more radical. But I did love you, little desk. Go into the light!

The perils of not having a dishwasher (besides making me a generally pissed off person) are that your dishes get chipped to hell. The silver lining is that that's a perfectly good excuse to shop for new bowls from Anthropologie in new pretty colors. And to maybe have to go back this weekend for more.

I try to contrast the girly stuff in this apartment with dude-friendly things for a balanced-gender environment. Accepting a Beertender into our lives (and postage stamp-size kitchen), though, may be the ultimate compromise.