You probably know, because I love it so much and won’t shut up about it, that we made a big whale out of plywood for Abe’s nursery: Last week a couple of fabulous plywood wall hanging projects popped up….which is making me wonder: why isn’t EVERYONE making big wall hangings out of plywood? Seriously, it’s cheap, it’s easy, it makes … Continue reading
That’s right–Easter decorating week is nearly over! Back to our regularly scheduled tween room redo (with maybe some gardening action thrown in!) after this. I’ve seen a ton of silhouette art around lately (it occurs to me that most of my posts could be Pinterest Challenge posts, really), so I decided to throw some into the Easter decorating mix here. This … Continue reading
I continue to decorate for Easter. Those who saw this picture (or a similar one) on Instagram: ….will observe after this post that I’m getting pretty close to the bottom of my giant pile of Easter decorating stuff. Today we deal with eggs, the natural follow up to bunnies, of course. See that funny white candle holder thing? I picked … Continue reading
Taking a break from Easter decorating while some paint dries to bring you the latest addition to Abe’s gallery wall. Remember how I said that Milo was the only brother who hadn’t contributed anything to it? We made quick work of remedying that situation. One of the kids got a Lego mosaic kit for Christmas a few years ago. It was … Continue reading
I think there’s some sort of ancient proverb that says something like, “She who starts 14 projects all at once at the beginning of the weekend will have trouble finishing even one of them by the end of the weekend.” Yeah. Back on Friday, I was very proud of my ambitious plans and all the stuff we were going to … Continue reading
Okay, not really. A REAL free spirit would live in her van and not do ANY chores EVER. But maybe, say, you might have been a free spirit in a different life, but in this one you have four kids, three dogs, two cats, and two and a half baths in your big house, so you HAVE to clean stuff, … Continue reading
It was in the 60’s here Saturday while the northern half of the country was being buried under snow, so I decided to give up on coming up with a late winter theme for the banner in the dining room and just go ahead and accept the early arrival of spring (thus guaranteeing 6 inches of snow sometime in the … Continue reading
I’ve had a link to the Botanicus Digital Library bookmarked for quite awhile now. It’s a project from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library to digitize scientific literature and make it available on the internet. Some of the texts they’ve digitized have really pretty pictures in them. Probably they had loftier goals than beautifying people’s walls in mind when they started the … Continue reading
I tried to finish the board and batten today so that I could tell you all about it–I really did. But I couldn’t find the caulk. Dave and I both keep hoping the other person will finish the board and batten every time we leave the house. Anyway, given this tragic lack of caulk, I made a crib skirt instead. We … Continue reading
(I had sort of hoped to either have a baby before 2012 ended, for tax deduction purposes, or to have the first baby in my city/state/country of 2013, in hopes of getting free stuff. But, as you can see, I am still here. Historically, my babies show up remarkably close to their due dates). So check out how I’m trying … Continue reading