One night I got really into adding all of my favorite images to My Deco File over at dominomag.com. I think I uploaded about 100 images, which was a labor of love because my laptop was ancient and it took FOREVER, but it seemed worth it. Later, as a few of my favorite glossies fell, I realized I should keep my backups of the shots and not devote any more time to it as Domino might be next. Are you going through Domino/My Deco File withdrawal? I have a few suggestions for getting over it. First, enough of the complaining already, here are the five stages of grief, start working through them:

1) Denial. Write posts re: “Say it ain’t So Domino!” and think that passing around an online petition is going to help matters. Pssst: It’s not.

2) Anger. Curse Conde Nast and cancel subscriptions to all of their other magazines. Pssst: they won’t care.

3) Bargaining. Tell God that if the Domino website keeps going, you’ll be O.K. Pssst: It’s highly unlikely an out-of-print magazine is going to keep its website going. See: Blueprint, Cottage Living

4) Depression. Mope around in your robe, quit vacuuming, eat a lot of Cherry Garcia, leaf through old issues and miss Nick Olsen and Rita Konig. Pssst: I bet they’ll get jobs somewhere else. They aren’t dead.

5) Acceptance. Put the old issues back in the magazine files. Take the My Deco File button out of your browser. Tell yourself that Miles Redd was overrated. Remember that the last three issues were pretty sucky. Now MOVE ON! Here’s how..

• Go See Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Just kidding.

• Check out sfgirlbybay. Victoria’s discerning eye had assembled one of the best My Deco Files on the site, and she’s been downloading and sharing on her blog. One of my personal favorites is Ode to My Deco: Turquoise:

• Get back in touch with flickr. Peruse everyone else’s photos, and keep on top of marking your favorites. Go back and look at the favorites you marked a long time ago.

• Check out a hot new site called Houzz. You can get inspiration, advice and sources for everything from picking out a rug to planning out an entire new house. The site has thousands of inspirational photos and it has the hook-up for contractors and designers. Better than that, they have a section where you can create your own Ideabook, browser button included! Take your homeless My Deco Files downloads and upload them into your shiny new Houzz Ideabook.

Side Note: The first Ideabook I noticed was by Kit Pollard – small world, as I know Kit from her comments over here at Hatch. Thus, I felt at home on the new site right away. Here’s a tiny snippet from one of Kit’s Ideabooks called “Embracing Gallic Style”:

photo via sfgirlbybay

screenshot from houzz.com