Nesting: Summer Weight Blanket

As the days are getting warmer, it's time for Boyfriend and your MatchGirl to start thinking about a blanket for our summertime bed.

I'm a little bit in love with the classic New England summer weight blanket - this one from Swans Island.

The one pictured is from the J. Crew website, but you can check out the rest of the classic collection here.

Spring Cleaning | Resources

After my first post on spring cleaning, your MatchGirl's Facebook wall was aflutter with tips and hints and resources to help one keep one's home a little more organized!

A few of my faves:

First, my friend Kate Payne wrote a killer book called The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking (yes, that's your MatchGirl mentioned in the sewing section). This book (pictured, left) shows you that anyone can keep an amazing home, you just need a little ingenuity and the desire to do it. From making a lovely space to overnight guests to throwing parties to canning your own food, Kate walks you through it all. Seriously. Buy it.

Spring Cleaning | Hall Closet

Ugh. Gentle readers, as I mentioned before, Boyfriend and your MatchGirl are not stellar cleaners. Not that, of course, we live in a sty, simply that we can both find a lot of other things we'd like to do aside from mop the floors and organize the closets.

But as spring is the time for a fresh start, I decided that we should get going with a spring cleaning, of sorts anyway.

And I decided to start in one of the most annoyingly messy places - the little closets in the entryway of our apartment.

Spring Cleaning

Gentle readers, your MatchGirl and Boyfriend are not the best of housekeepers. True our house is neat. It could certainly be more organized. But spring has sprung and all I want to do is spend some time doing a deep dive into cleaning and reorganizing our little place.