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Pin it If you've got a large family or a ton of close friends, keeping track of who you bought what for can be tough. The organizing geniuses at Real Simple just launched Giftable, a service that keeps all your holiday s...

Pin it Name: Walt & Whitney (arriving January 2016) Location: Austin, Texas When I found out I was having boy/girl twins I knew that I wanted to create a neutral nursery. I naturally tend to decorate everything in my hom...

For almost three years now, a seasonal queer party series in Brooklyn's underground has acted as an amalgamation of the different shades and hues of the queer community navigating this outer NYC borough. David Sokolowski...

Charlotte and Tom's Charming 1904 Family Home in London Pin it Your living room is a place for connecting with friends, spending time with family, relaxing by yourself and more. What it shouldn't be is a place for any of...

J.K. Rowling must be using her Remembrall again. For some reason lately, the Harry Potter author seems to finally recall that she left fans of the series with more mysteries than there are flavors of Bertie Bott's Every...

Pin it Forget flower arranging classes or that afternoon you spent failing at Pinterest tutorials. All you ever needed to know about how to decorate for the holidays, you learned in kindergarten. Break out the scissors a...

Adele's new bodyguard is setting fire to the rain. The British singer has been getting a lot of media attention with the launch of her new album "25" on Nov. 20. But it's her security detail who now appears to be making...

Pin it Name: Jill and Dan and their 2-year-old, Branson Location: Hillsdale; Portland, Oregon Size: 4,100 square feet Years lived in: 6.5 years; Owned When Jill and Dan moved from a small condo in Portland's Pearl Distri...

They're funky, they're traditional, they're 30-somethings, they're Nuqat (dots), and they're taking the Arab Gulf's art, culture and design scene by storm from Kuwait. "Creative education is the main umbrella for all our...

Jen and Dave's Fixer-Upper Turned Colorful, Plant-Filled Austin Home Pin it There's something so intoxicating about the turn of the calendar into a new year. It's a blank slate and a fresh start. A time to reflect on les...

She was ignored by her father, sexually abused at age 7 and, even at her commercial peak, treated like a notch on the bedpost by more hit-makers than could fit on the Billboard charts. And James Taylor? The love of Carly...

Molly's studio before Pin it Project by: Molly Location: Washington, D.C. Challenge: Decorating a studio into one cohesive space that functioned for having guests over, working from home, cooking, sleeping, and everythin...

I don't think there are too many skeletons in my closet But maybe I'm just not remembering them Analogies to make you smile …

Pin it Most little girls go through a horse phase. I went though a castles phase. I checked David Macaulay's Castle out from the library more times than I could count, and basically memorized it, and then I drew castles ...

The perfect CD, book or film to give is the one that the receiver doesn't have, doesn't know they need and doesn't want to end. May your gift giving - …

Some of Raleigh's longest-running restaurants started by Greek refugees Many were fleeing civil war Families have kept the traditions alive …

Destiny McNeill is Raleigh Little Theater's first African American Cinderella She learned as a child that the fairy tale princess could look like her Brandy NC State student's dream is musical theater on larger stages �...

When they finished making "A Charlie Brown Christmas" 50 years ago, the producers sat back and looked at their work. And they thought: Good grief. …

Frosty the Snowman (8 p.m., CBS) - The 1969 animated classic narrated by Jimmy Durante. The 1995 follow-up "Frosty Returns" airs at 8:30. The Story of Santa Claus (9 p.m., …

We deployed all the trappings of the "real" thing: the rabbi, the broken glass, the poster-sized image of ourselves on which guests could scribble good wishes. There was a best man and a matron of honor, a carefully cura...

Emotional pain is said to trigger the best art. When that agony comes in the form of a shattered relationship, a deluge of creativity can accompany the outpouring of feelings. The ugliest breakups can rouse the best musi...

Pin it Name: Annie Location: Brooklyn, New York I just moved to Brooklyn after 10 years in Los Angeles, a cabin in Colorado, and a few years of wandering. My belongings sat in storage for almost two years before moving h...