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Today I’m sharing my Friday Five (”Five Swedish blogs that make the Internet more beautiful”) with Jaime at Design Milk!
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So with The Great Interview Experiment comes the payback - the bit where someone interviews me. That sorry task fell to the very thoughtful and amusing Ozma whose blog title sums it all up: Hah!. You should check out her blog - you never know who you [Read More] 

Neil Kramer of Citizen of the Month is celebrating bloggers by challenging his readers to interview one another. I was interested to take part because I figured it would be a great way to find blogs on topics other than houses and design - and I sco [Read More] 

They came on a humid August day to Beach House. From the North, the West and the South-East; the Blogina Posse*Bearing gifts of sweet and delectable desserts and wine.To celebrate their creativity and love of their art (or craft);their passion for ho [Read More] 

So by now you have realised that I was in Kansas City for a couple of days. The raison d'etre for the midwest excursion was a little business and a visit to the renowned Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art but I grabbed the chance to take a side trip into Ka [Read More] 

It's been a while since I posted anything food-related on the blog. A combination of laziness, greed (do you realise we have to wait to eat while I take shots?) and twitter. Blame twitter. It's so much quicker to post 140 characters online than mess [Read More] 

A while ago I challenged six bloggers to write about Six Uninteresting Things That Made Them Happy. Let's check in and see what they are up to.From ThirteenEleven: I learned something today about Pink. Like who is responsible for those pink 50s bathr [Read More] 

I've been tagged by the stylish a href="http://rightbank.wordpress.com/"From the Right Bank to the Left Coast/a to come up with span style="font-weight:bold;"six uninteresting things that make me happy/span - all those who think they already know too [Read More] 

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I resisted doing this for as long as I could, but as you may or may not have already noticed, I’m now on Twitter. Feel free to follow along! I can’t promise any content of real interest, but I suppose that’s not the point. Right? I [Read More] 

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There are LOTS of blogs in Iowa City, most are started by students, and fizzle out pretty quickly. I don't search a great deal for other local bloggers, but here are three local blogs that I really do like. One has barely started, one is VERY prolifi [Read More] 

More giveaways: Todd at a href="http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/2008/12/socket-bit-driver-set-giveaway.html"Home Construction Improvement/a tells me he's giving away a very useful 65 Piece Ratcheting Socket Bit Driver Set by Husky. It loo [Read More] 

Jean at Renovation Therapy is holding a a href="http://renovationtherapy.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/benefit-auction/"Benefit Auction/a for a a href="http://destinationanywherebuthere.blogspot.com/"near homeless teen/a in SF. Items awaiting your bid inc [Read More] 

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FYI: You can now add Door Sixteen to your Blog Network on Facebook.
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For those who want to know a little more about me - like my real first name, check out One Project Closer today. You should go visit anyway because they have lots of helpful tips. I'm sure if they'd had one on ladder etiquette I wouldn't be bruised r [Read More] 

I was very touched to be awarded an E for Excellent award from Ethan and Fred at One Project Closer. They kindly wrote I had challenged their artistic sides. It's funny that what started as a pure diary of the renovations on Beach House has morphed i [Read More] 

Cuil pronounced cool is a bright shiny new search engine developed by ex-google employee Anna Patterson that sets out to challenge the ubiquitous search giant. Being a narcissist I tried it out by typing in "modernemama" and instead of boring old tex [Read More] 