help ‘improvised life’ win a homey award!!

The yearly Homie Awards recognize the best home design and cooking sites, selected by popular vote. Although we are often told ‘improvised life’ defies categories (on Remodelista’s Newstand we’re listed under ‘D-I-Y and Renovators’; in The Say100, we’re in ‘Shelter’), we invite you to VOTE for ‘improvised life’ in the Homie’s Home Design and How-to categories. Just…

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friends with benefits: the paypal glitch is fixed

Our apologies for the ‘Our Friends with Benefits‘ PayPal link getting wonky, which a reader alerted us to last weekend. We hope it didn’t pull you into PayPal hell. It’s fixed now. Thank you all who returned to subscribe or made single donations. We deeply appreciate your support. –The Management …more of Davidope’s beautiful animated…

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thanks and wow! (friends w benefits)

When we launched our fund-raising experiment, Friends with Benefits, we were amazed and heartened to get emails from some readers asking if they could pledge more than the $5, $7, or $9 monthly we gave as options on the PayPal menu. That’s possible now. THANK YOU to those who pledged and the many welcome single…

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