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March 16, 2016 by Anya Elise

I went to IKEA for a bookshelf and instead bought a cactus

My inability to keep plant life living has been fairly well documented. It’s a bleak history, and though they say history is written by the winners I’m going to keep it real here today. I am horrible at nurturing plants. They all die. It may take a whole month a little while, but inevitably I kill them […]

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February 10, 2016 by Anya Elise

pockets || 10 on 10

We moved into our little cottage house weeks before we got married. It was in total disarray through the wedding week, then as we traveled around overseas for our honeymoon, then for most of the remaining months of 2013. Such is the chaos of a new life together in a new space. In the last two-plus […]

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June 30, 2014 by Anya Elise

on being pioneers || the cottage house

I love life in the cottage house for this reason. (Well, for almost all the reasons, but for this one specifically right now.) I can turn to Daniel at any given, random moment, and ask a question like: “Do you really think we’re going to colonize Mars in our lifetime?” He’ll pause and think (but […]

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June 23, 2014 by Anya Elise

alley poppies || the cottage house

There’s a little space between our house and the next. A strip of concrete between the front gate and back. Gray stairs — one, two, three — down from the cottage to the pavement. Someone at some time in the past dropped seeds in the dirt that lines the walkway. Earlier this spring, alley flowers […]

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June 16, 2014 by Anya Elise

counterbalance || happy weekending

It’s a little known fact of the universe that in order to catch a baseball thrown at such an angle that you have to reach three feet out of your immediate personal sphere to successfully catch it, you have to stick your opposing leg all the way out in the other direction to achieve the […]