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Happy Friday! I’m writing from the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, where Lenovo graciously invited us to check out some great new bands — and snap some shots of the awesome street style while we’re here.

I’m hoping to have some fun stuff to share when I get back! For now, here are a few of my favorite links of the week.

Have a great weekend! Come say hi over on Instagram if you have a chance.

Eye this gorgeous Nantucket engagement shoot by Jen Huang.

Buy Kinfolk’s new cookbook!

Make a DIY pantone poster, via Ez.

Bake these lemon chocolate cheesecake pots.

This is awful (and oddly hilarious).

Garance tells it like it is.

Another thing to make? This gorgeous fresh flower pendant light.

This “Blurred Lines” parody wins the day.

I’m not sure where to begin — my heart is so full of thanks for all of you. Thank you for your responses, for your feedback, for your love, your support, your friendship… for everything you’re able to give from so far away, behind the curtain that lies between us, but lets in so much light… thank you.

I’m having the best time reading through your responses, taking notes, making plans, finding a little more confidence in the direction I’m hoping to go, knowing you’re all by my side. I don’t mean to be so flowery, but hey, it’s a holiday Friday… I’m feeling pretty full of fluff.

Tell me. Are you going away for the big weekend? Maybe taking advantage of these last days of summer with a cookout? Whatever it is you’re up to, I hope it’s wonderful! Enjoy your holiday and I’ll see you back here on Tuesday.

P.S. If you haven’t had a chance to respond to yesterday’s survey, no problem at all! I’ll be keeping an eye on it over the next few weeks. We’re in this together. I want everyone who can to have a chance to weigh in.

Eye this pretty house filled with flowers.

Buy a Clare Elsaesser print (I want them all.)

Make your own faux butcher block island.

Bake this cheater banana pudding.

I don’t usually get so worked up over the tech-obsessed-culture stuff… but this short film made me sad.

Haven’t quite decided how I feel about the fact that this post kind of makes me like Selena Gomez.

This oh-so-pretty summerland inspiration shoot.

10 tips for styling the perfect bar cart.

This touching and sad story about making the very tough decision to call off your wedding.

Selfies at serious places.

I’ve only just recently learned that everyone isn’t this way (I’m still not quite sure I believe it…) but for me, a busy social life usually means that I’m going to get to a point where I need a few days at home alone to recharge (extroverts — no?).

So after a few busy weeks months, there came a… let’s just say a moment, that sounds way better than breakdown… a few weeks ago when I found myself at a place where I needed to say enough was enough. We had to find some time to refuel. To unwind and do nothing. So, because right now our lives are just that busy – and even the weekends where we really meant to relax… we did anything but – we decided to schedule it…

So here we go. Let the laziness begin. I’m not going to feel guilty… I’m not going to make a list… I’m going to actively soak up as much of this last of only two remaining pool weekends we have before that dastardly cold shows up again and ruins it all.

Sometimes you just have to force a good thing, and that’s okay… because it’s going to feel so good.

Hope you have a good weekend! I’ll try to also unplug as much as I can… but on that front, I’m not sure I have any promises. Maybe I’ll see you over on Instagram.

Eye some good advice.

Buy this sweater that I’m dying — dying I tell you — to have.

Make this pretty pegboard.

Bake this citrus polenta breakfast cake.

22 past and present “Saturday Night Live” cast members talk about their audition. Classic line: “If you went and got ice, you would hear snippets of auditions. Everybody else’s stuff sounds better than yours.” I think we all feel that way every once in a while.

Just so amazing, these penguin sounds… I die.

What should you do with your life? Take your pick.

I will always love you, Dolly!

This “Get Your Sh*t Together” series is really, really good.

The weather — uh-oh, here she goes with the weather, original move there, Laicie… no but really, hear me out — the weather is so fantastic in DC right now that I think it might actually be physically impossible to be unhappy. The stifling summer heat has given way to something that feels, almost disturbingly, like fall. It’s quiet, calm, and no matter the troubles that lurk underneath… right now anything seems possible. With the fog of humidity cleared from my brain, the world seems new.

I’m looking forward to a weekend that promises more of the same gorgeous sun, and plan to make a point to sit back and breathe it all in. How about you? Any big plans?

P.S. Anyone going to Alt SLC? I just bought my ticket yesterday and I’m still on a high — hoping to see some of you there!

P.P.S. I’m sharing my fall reading list over at Refinery29 today, go check it out and let me know if you have any other good recommendations, I always like to keep a few in waiting!

Eye this crazy-fantastic, eclectic Philly loft.

Buy this pretty two-sided shirt.

Make this great industrial diy garment rack.

Bake this mouth-watering spiced plum and honey cake.

Pip over at Meet Me at Mike’s shares some of the rituals and tools she’s used to get through writing 24,088 words of her book.

An interesting discussion on babies.

Smoke pot as a kid? You might be more likely to become an entrepreneur.

Potato chip cookies, because potato chips make everything better (srsly, sandwiches with potato chips tucked inside? yum…).

If you’re following along on Instagram, you probably already know that yesterday was a bit of a milestone — that is, if you can call a study in how-long-can-your-friends-stand-to-stare-at-your-silly-face a milestone…

Yesterday we came to the end of 30 days (30. nonstop. days.) of self portraits, and while guys, I am so relieved that the next time I don’t feel like doing my hair or makeup or moving from the couch, nobody has to know… I’m actually really sad that it’s come to an end.

30 days not only forced me to get way more creative and way more acquainted with my iPhone camera than I’ve ever been, it also helped me to hate the idea of taking a picture of myself a whole lot less…

If you remember, this is where I began.

And by the end, I was taking full-on toothy happy pictures like the last one here…

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