Thank you, Martha Stewart, for showing me that anything is possible. (Hire me?)
A pine cone, feathers, and pipe cleaner. My goodness.
Pompoms!!Find more utterly delightful table decorating ideas here. You'll gobble them up! (!!!!!!!)

I was poking around Alyson Graves' blog Unruly Things this morning, and couldn't not post photos of baby animals by Sharon Montrose that she had posted in an older post. Wow, lots of posts in that sentence.
Boden
Wooden Table
On sale for $74.00. Wouldn't it be lovely at a holiday party with a black dress?

For those who aren't up to speed with my life, I recently moved home to Western MA for a few months. While at Coffee Roasters today in Northampton, I saw a little flyer with neat graphic design that said Museums10, which had a map of the 10 museums in the area.
Tom Friedman