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Tips and Inspiration: Decorating With Candles

No Thanksgiving table—or any dinner table, for that matter—is complete without candles. The soft, flickering light from candles sets an instantly intimate mood. My husband and I often light candles on random old weeknights, just to make our meal that much more relaxing. As you prepare to set your holiday table, consider these candle-related tips.

Knife Storage: Five Ways To Store Your Knives Safely

How do you store your knives? Do you like to keep them out? Put them away in a drawer? One of the best things I did in the previous Kitchen Cure was to get my knives organized and properly stowed.

Are you looking for a good solution for your knives? Read on for five ways you can store knives safely and happily.

• Read the full post at The Kitchn

Modern Entertaining Pieces from Angela Adams

Most of us are familiar with Angela Adams thanks to her colorfully patterned rugs. Beyond making your floors lovely, she also has designed some birch veneer trays and frosted patterned glassware to bring color and whimsy to your tabletop.

Scavenger: Shabby Chic White Side Table and Mirror $120
Seattle

This beautiful demi-lune table and rectangular mirror, both painted in a crisp white, are beautifully classic and could easily be paired in an entryway or bedroom. For more great shabby chic inspired furniture (perfect in winter white) read after the jump.

Etsy Find: Slip-On Coasters

Wine charms are well and good, and do the job at deciphering between people's glasses, but we've never been huge fans. If you're working with stemmed wine glasses, allow us to introduce this option that we just recently discovered: slip-on coasters!

Seasonal Decor: White Branches

A thrifty but really elegant-looking decoration for winter is a grouping of white-painted branches. Birch or Aspen bark is probably the inspiration here, but white paint achieves a similar look if those species aren't available to you.

The Old, Weird America Exhibit at the Frye Art Museum

This weekend, we're looking forward to the Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art exhibition at Seattle's Frye Art Museum. It explores the resurgence of folk themes and mythic history in recent art from the United States and was awarded the prestigious Best Thematic Museum Show Award by the International Art Critics Association in 2008.

Table Runners On Etsy
Roundup

It's officially "the Holidays", the only time of year I put my fancy table runner to use. It isn't really all that fancy, but it boosts my tables self esteem quite a bit! Etsy has lots to offer in handmade and vintage table runners, here are some of my favorites.

Eames Style Side Table - $80
San Francisco Scavenger

Over in Albany someone is getting rid of a bunch of very cool modern furniture including this Eames style side table. You'll find a couple more good items from their collection after the jump.

For Sale: Edward Cullen's Twilight New Moon House

Want to live like a very stylish vampire? The home used in the Twilight film opening today, New Moon, as the residence for Edward and the rest of the Cullen clan is up for sale. Designed by Arthur Erickson, and renovated in 2001, it is a luxury property with a price tag to match.

Five Other Uses for Tea Towels
studiopatró

Tuesday, we listed a bunch of different cotton tea towels for use in the kitchen. With so many great varieties of design, it would be easy to end up with a surplus, but thanks to their versatility, they can be much, much more than a dish drying towel. Here's a list of 5 other uses for our favorite kitchen cloth.

Affordable Alternative to the Copenhagen Bed?
Good Questions

Q: Know an affordable alternative to the Room & Board Copenhagen bed (larger photo below)? Or a straight-up knock-off?

Sent by Claire

The Weekend Guide: Sales and Events
San Francisco 11.20.09

THIS WEEK
• Heath Ceramics
• de Young Holiday Artisan Fair
• Super 7
• Propeller
• The Shade Store
• Y Lighting
• DZINE

....and more below the jump:

Denis and Heather's Scandinavian Treasure
House Tour

Name: Heather, Denis and new pup, Addie
Location: Portland, Oregon
Size: About 3000 square feet
Years lived in: 8 months

After living and renting in Portland for 3.5 years and being newly wed to one another, Denis and Heather decided it was time to purchase their very first home together. They proceeded to find an agent who took them all over the city looking for something, but in the end came up with nothing. They decided to take a house-hunting hiatus but soon after came the news that their two friends were packing up and moving back to Denmark.