I find myself with time today. Free time, and lots of it. What am I tempted to do? Wrap myself up in a warm blanket, plop a cute dog down in my lap, and read a good book (or two). What am I going to do instead? When we moved in, we had all of…
Category: The House
Fifteen Days of Remodeling Turns Into Thirty Plus
I did my fair share of blog reading before we started our kitchen cabinet project. I wanted to see what paints and techniques had worked for other people, and I needed some photo inspiration to get the courage for our own project. It worked. I heard about other people’s problems and pitfalls and how they…
Epic Weekend of Progress (and Soup!)
There were two huge successes this weekend, one admittedly more significant than the other. The important thing was that Scott and his dad got rid of the rest of our dining room/living room wall. Check out the before picture: And the during: And the (almost) after: I have to say, one of my favorite things…
Simple Pork for Project Day
This week is somewhat busy, all things considered. We have family coming to help us with projects on the weekend, which means that the bedroom that’s currently serving as our cabinet space (lots of fragile things all over the floor surrounding the bed) needs to become a bedroom again by Friday night. Which means that…
Watercolor Dots… on Sheets! (Hopefully that’s not just exciting to me.)
This post needs a disclaimer. I feel guilty about pointing out things I love and don’t own, especially if they’re expensive. I’m not saying I want to buy anything, just that if this thing fell into my lap for free, I would do a super dorky happy dance. No big deal, just a girl and…
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Welcome to the quiz version of the blog. Let’s get started! Q1. Does all matter tend towards disorder? A1. In our house, definitely. True, we’re in the middle of some relatively major kitchen projects at the moment. It still seems like this picture is too representative: Q2. Want to see more? A2. (You don’t have…
Weekend Update: Sanding and Classic TV
We had a stupendous weekend despite rainy day yuck. Sure, the highlight was hanging out with friends and such, but the weekend also included some impressive progress on the kitchen project. We sanded almost all of our kitchen cabinet doors. (Yay!) Why not all? Well, we sanded until the sander broke and we ran…
Small, but valuable. 