So things are looking different around here today! What happened was I mentioned that I needed to make a business card before Haven, the blogging conference I’m going to later in the summer, and my wonderful blogging friend, Katja, from Shift Ctrl Art said she could help me out, and the next thing I knew she’d not only designed a … Continue reading
This is the post where Dave tells you how we attached the actual swinging part of our swing set. Let’s be honest: if you have no immediate plans to build your own swing set (or maybe just an unusually strong interest in swing set construction), you’re not going to read this whole thing. So please feel free to scroll through … Continue reading
I went to college in Athens and spent four years there, but I mostly learned things like where to find cheap beer (and, you know, all the stuff from the classes, too)….not so much about what to do there with kids. And Dave actually grew up in Athens, so he really ought to have had a lot of insight, but … Continue reading
I guess this is actually kind of part 3, if you count Abe’s play kitchen. But the play kitchen is, of course, optional. Whereas a rock climbing wall is mandatory. Or, well, at least some way or other to get up into the tower is. We have two ways! Three if you count climbing the slide. When I wrote the … Continue reading
1. This poster that I bought at the thrift store last week: I took it out of the frame to keep the glare off and kept it nice and big so you can read all of it. By all appearances, someone drew this by hand (I’m nearly certain those are just pencil lines around the edges). Someone named Deanie Miller. … Continue reading
It’s been 11 months since I posted part 1 of The Big House List. 11 months is really close to a year, so it seems like a good time to check back in and take a look at what we’ve accomplished from the list, what we have left to do, and what we’ve changed our minds about all together. Note … Continue reading
Hey, I kept up my monthly reviews for a whole two months before I fell behind! Things are feeling kind of light on projects around here lately–I feel like with the bathroom tile and Abe’s room and all we kind of started the year with a pace we were unlikely to maintain–but around here we like to call May “Almost … Continue reading
A long time ago, back when no one read my blog, I posted about the kitchen we redid at our old house just before we sold it. We painted the cabinets black (I actually did this with the help of my realtor and some friends while Dave took all the kids to California to visit family) and changed out the … Continue reading
1. You can find the Boxy Colonial over at Primitive and Proper today as part of Cassie’s series of eclectic home tours. I know that I keep doing these guest posts and then telling you that they’re one of my favorite blogs….but this time I mean it! Kidding! I mean it every time I say it, but, for real, LOVE … Continue reading
See the finished swing set here! Post contains affiliate links; thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! By this point in my life, I should probably have long since stopped being surprised every single time that projects go much faster in my head than they do in real life. I was pretty sure I was going to have a completely finished … Continue reading