No more of this taking time off for Christmas nonsense; I am 3 weeks and 1 day away from my due date. Predictably, doing the board and batten right before Christmas did not actually happen. But we made up for it a bit by spending the evening before Christmas Eve making our very first no-sew (or, umm, any kind of) … Continue reading
Warning! This post will contain approximately 4 million pictures because 1. tutorial! and 2. mobiles are fun to take pictures of. If one is in search of a mobile for one’s baby’s nursery, one can do a quick Etsy search and find many beautiful and pricy mobiles to choose from. Quite a few of them are made out of colorful … Continue reading
I have a lot of nursery things that I’m almost ready to post about. Maybe, if someone hadn’t put his Math Olympiad books right on top of my special scissors and double sided tape and ribbon in the buffet, so that I had to spend forever looking for them, I would even be ready for one of those posts right now. But no. … Continue reading
I totally forgot! Our house has a weird….kid? cherub? ghost? hanging out above the front door. He’s actually a little bit creepy. I don’t think any other house in the neighborhood has one; I’m not sure why anyone ever thought it was a great idea to put him there. But, at any rate, there he is. And as soon as … Continue reading
In years past (most of them anyway), we have done things like going to tree farms to cut down our own tree, or we’ve gone places that had hayrides and cocoa and visits with Santa to complement their overpriced trees, or, at the very least, we’ve gone to a less elaborate tree selling place but sprung for the Noble Fir, … Continue reading
Last week of the Dare to DIY link party, and I’m back with another DIY project fit for a 7 year old! I was going to do one mammoth Christmas decorating post (well, as mammoth as it could be given our less than mammoth Christmas decorations (pregnant! universal excuse for everything I don’t do!)), but I seem to be having … Continue reading
Remind me never to decorate a nursery at the same time I’m trying to get the house ready for Christmas again. It’s a little much. Anyway, we did the tree last night and some other stuff here and there, and I’m saving that all up for a grand Christmas post over the weekend for the next Dare to DIY challenge … Continue reading
So let’s see….we’ve crossed putting in hardwood floors of the list. I think we’ve pretty much decided the bathroom tile will have to wait, too. (I guess I should say more about that, since I kept insisting it was SO IMPORTANT. Thing is, the master bath is right over the unheated garage. And it’s a huge room with one lone … Continue reading
AKA The Prettiest Table In the World In My House I DID buy the Patch dessert plates from Target. Then I waited and waited and waited for like FOUR DAYS for them to get here. And then they did! And it was a magical day. There was a time, back like…a week and a half ago, when I planned to … Continue reading
I have bigger things to blog about–like the FINALLY (mostly) finished back steps. And Thanksgiving. But first, a post about a few of the little things that have been going on, house-wise. Fiesta and Gable decided to stop taking turns on everyone’s favorite dog bed and just share it instead. Awwww…..BFFs! I finally finished painting this little table thing. I … Continue reading