Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

Maria Helena Carey
07 Jan 2016

Shopping:

Kay Wigs Going Out of Business

Kay Wigs, the tiny but mighty basement wig store at 325 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, is closing its doors on January 31 after 14 years on Capitol Hill and 41 years of business– originally, the store was on F Street NW. Kay, the eponymous owner and styler of wigs, is still looking for a new place. […]


06 Jan 2016

Events:

Gird Loins: No Pants Ride, Sunday 1/10!

Don’t let The Man bring you down by having to be back at work and having to do all manner of adult things in this cold. Remember that there is fun and craziness out there (and that romance, and especially photo-romance is definitely not dead) and pantslessness– especially pantslessness on the Metro. The No Pants […]


04 Jan 2016

Home:

Starting the New Year Right with Hourly Husbands

2015 just gasped its last and you may be starting to clean house after the holidays–or at least some of you are. Here to help you with the job is a new handyman service called Hourly Husbands. While putting away decorations, you may discover little things that need fixing around the house: Maybe your gutters need cleaning, or […]


31 Dec 2015

Development:

Petco, Starbucks Coming to the Neighborhood–Again.

According to a recent post from PopVille, a Starbucks Coffee and a Petco Unleashed are among the stores that will be coming to the development in the 600 block of H Street NE. This means that, across the street from a shiny new Whole Foods Market (which will probably serve overpriced coffee products itself), we […]


20 Dec 2015

Shopping:

Holiday Panic Gift Idea: FLEA MARKET SUNDAY!

It’s December 20th and I know the Sunday Post or the Sunday NYT isn’t going to read itself, although – real talk– you’ll probably end up looking up some sort of answers from today’s NYT crossword puzzle online and you may even “check” with a couple of friends; but when people ask you if you […]


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