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What is European Beautiful?

What is Mod Podge? Where can I get Washi tape? What is a Sharpie? Where is the nearest West Elm? Why is everybody into chevron? These were but a few questions I had when I started reading about design and DIY. That feels as if it was a million blogs ago. You see, in my European corner of the universe, a Sharpie was called a permanent marker and Anthropologie was just a field of study. Probably 90% of the blogs I was reading originated in the United States. Their writers were sharing tips about Dollar Store crafts, giveaways open to U.S. Residents only and an obsession with Target that I could neither understand nor relate to. It seemed that my blog reads were all coming from a magical kingdom at the intersection of New York and San Francisco, with a few streets of Toronto and Chicago thrown in for good measure. The writers in this kingdom were all amazingly talented people, but I wanted something closer to my own heart. Sure, there was some Paris and London in there,