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April 22, 2015
Music

The SweetWater Beer & Music Festival

This past weekend was a muddy one. Not, like, mentally muddy (though the Sweetwater beer we drank tried its best), but literally. So much mud. And we spent the whole weekend—three days' worth—trucking through it in our rain boots. It

By Taryn Williford
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April 21, 2015
Entertaining

My Favorite New Pieces for Entertaining

You know how some people like to buy new clothes when they've got a party or big event coming up? That's me, but with serving dishes. Whenever we invite people over for a big get-together, I have a really predictable

By Taryn Williford
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April 16, 2015
Blogging

How to Set Up a Custom Short URL for Your Personal Blog

Thank you so much for all the love yesterday with the launch of this new site! (Read about it here.) One of my favorite new features under this self-title brand umbrella is the custom branded short link (tarynwil.li) you might have spotted

By Taryn Williford
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April 15, 2015
Meta

Welcome to TarynWilliford.com!

I am so excited to write this post today. After several years of blogging about food and parties for my blog, Formal Fringe, I took a cold, hard look in the proverbial mirror and asked myself one really important question:

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April 14, 2015
Food, Life Lessons

How to: Get the Most Juice from a Lime

Taco night is everyone's favorite night at our house. J.R. loves them. I love how easy it is to prepare them. And our little pup Bacon loves the leftovers. We usually go pretty traditional with the tacos, adding some taco seasoning

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This morning’s theme is: Måneskin on the speake This morning’s theme is: Måneskin on the speaker, homemade chai latte, and sunshine.
Fresh from the storm: my first patio peony of the Fresh from the storm: my first patio peony of the season. 🌸🌿
Never been more ready to break into the bar tray o Never been more ready to break into the bar tray on this Friday night. Cheers to the weekend ✌️🥃
In the spring and summer, my kitchen turns into a In the spring and summer, my kitchen turns into a prism. ✨ I think I need a disco ball in here, non?
Hello welcome to my dining room that everyone thin Hello welcome to my dining room that everyone thinks is outside when they see pictures because it gets such good light. I do not take that for granted. Thank you, skylights. Not pictured: The zero closets (zero!!), two square feet of kitchen counter, and how you cant run away for alone time when you have a fight with your partner. This is loft life.
This is an old pic of my bedroom. We took this mir This is an old pic of my bedroom. We took this mirror down to have the exposed ducts replaced around Thanksgiving, and the mirror hasn’t gone back up. No reason, just purely out of energy to put this place back together. ⁣
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We’ll put it back together soon though. But in the meantime I’ve been getting dressed not based on how things look but how they feel. And that’s been strange but fun. I’m not sure I’ll keep it up when the stakes are higher than “someone I know might see me at the grocery store,” but it has felt spiritually good to not have a full length mirror for a while. ⁣
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I don’t know what the lesson here is, except when you’re decorating don’t get stuck on the way things have always been or the rules about what needs to go where. Move things. Remove things. See how it changes not just the way your space looks but the way your spirit feels. ✌️