Chatting it Up on eHow

We're excited to announce a new blogging series we'll be kicking off with eHow and it starts today! Over the next 8 weeks we'll be sharing weekly tips, tricks and DIY projects for home decor. Find our first post in the series, an intro, right here: Spreading Our Urban Roots: A 17Apart Welcome!

17Apart Wedding Week, Finally!

Image by Tori Watson

As mentioned several times over the past several months, we've been eager to share all the details and final pics from our summer wedding and the events leading up to it...

Behind The Scenes: Ledbury Valentine's Shoot

I've been excited to share more about the Valentine's Day collaboration I teamed up with Ledbury for this month. For those unfamiliar, Ledbury is a Richmond based custom menswear line started by 2 Richmond natives who were able to make a go of pursuing their creative passions right around the same time the economy took a downward spiral — definitely something we can get behind. The company and collection have been growing quickly and gaining lots of attention, which is exciting to follow.

Behind The Scenes: A Very Relay Foods Thanksgiving

Since we're just a week away from Turkey day, we thought it would be fitting to share some of the preparations that have been going on in our kitchen. Back in September, I had the opportunity to help plan and cook the entire Thanksgiving menu for Relay Foods this holiday season. All of the ingredients for the meal came directly from Relay Foods and were sourced locally and organically where possible. Find the full meal, with all recipes and more photos from the day over on the Relay Foods Thanksgiving menu page.

Our Dog Treats In American Lifestyle Magazine

Back in early spring we began working with American Lifestyle Magazine to recreate our natural carrot and banana dog treat recipe for their holiday issue. Now that the issue is finally on newsstands, we were so thrilled to see how it turned out and find a project spread of our own across the pages of a print publication! Basil even made a little cameo — can you spot him in the top right image up there?

Richmond Magazine: Best BBQ

Have you seen the latest issue of Richmond Magazine? We've been keeping quiet about it until now, but I've been excited to share a peek here on the blog since I was one of the contributing writers (among many I admire) to the cover story — all about BBQ. You just do not turn down an opportunity to eat BBQ and write about it, right?

Richmond Magazine: Tim's 5 Favorites for Mussels

Guess what!? Today we're excited to share a guest contributing piece Tim wrote for this month's issue of Richmond Magazine. The feature has been in the works for a few months now, so we've been excited to spill the beans now that the issue is out. This month, Richmond Magazine is all about worldwide cuisine — right up Tim's alley — and he was asked to write for the monthly 5 favorites series...

Pawsh Feature: "We're Good Partners in Crime"

Tim and I are so excited to be featured in the latest installment of the Pawsh People series over on the Pawsh Magazine blog.

DIY Valentine Projects From Etsy

As the week winds down we thought we'd leave you with a little "heartfelt" inspiration from Etsy. Here's a roundup of 12 fun Valentine-inspired DIY project ideas from the How-Tuesday series:

2 Awesome DIY Mercury Glass Projects

Recently, we were excited to find two projects using our diy mercury glass finish tutorial featured on one of our favorite blogs, A Beautiful Mess!

17 Apart in Richmond Magazine

We were floored to find a blurb about 17 Apart in this month's issue of Richmond Magazine when our copy arrived in the mail!

17Apart on Apartment Therapy

Can you imagine our excitement to find our little stump table project featured on Apartment Therapy!!??? We're still pinching ourselves. We've been longtime fans of Apartment Therapy, especially the Before & After column, so to be highlighted in this series is beyond cool for us.

Celery Plant Update & Rikrak Studio Mini-Series

Today we're looking forward to sharing our latest update on the progress of our indoor celery plant and at the same time announce the launch of a mini-series all about growing vegetables with sustainable scraps over on The Rikrak Studio Blog. We were thrilled when Kristal from Rikrak contacted us to guest post on her popular blog with a sampling of the plant projects we've been undertaking along with a few new ones.

Head on over to The Rikrak Studio Blog to find the first in the series where we outline the entire celery growing project with progress shots along the way. Stay tuned for future guest posts over the remainder of spring with a few new ideas.

Behind the Scenes at Martha Stewart: The Etsy Show

I'm back in NYC this week with so many awesome projects going on at Etsy — one of which I've been looking forward to sharing here! Monday of this week I got the opportunity to attend the taping of the Martha Stewart Show entirely about Etsy and it airs TODAY! That's Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 10am on the Hallmark Channel (check your local listing schedule here).

Food Bits in RVA

Just popping in today to share a couple food gems:

1. Tim was mentioned in Style Weekly's print and web edition of Guest Check as a Richmond Food Writer to watch in 2012 by local restaurant critic, Robey Martin. I couldn't agree more (can you blame me?). Find and follow his regular food blog, E.A.T. right here.

Behind the Scenes: HGTV's Design on a Dime Etsy Episode

Remember my quick trip to Los Angeles at the end of September? Well I promised a follow up and I'm finally excited to share more details!

At Etsy, we've been working on a special partnership with HGTV on an upcoming episode of Design on a Dime slated to air tomorrow, Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8p/7c.

Lights Still Out

The good news is we managed safely through Hurricane Irene over Saturday night. As the wind and rain picked up with tropical storm velocity, we were most worried about the two tall trees in our yard uprooting onto the house, the basement flooding, and roof damage. Luckily, the worst that came our way was heavy debris and tree branches throughout the yard. Our surrounding neighbors weren't quite as lucky.