Just a quick check in today to show you that I am not leaving half of my Christmas decorations up all year like it’s possible I did last year, and to talk a bit about house stuff that’s going on. Spring in the kitchen! I know the bunny and the eggs give it an Eastery vibe, but I didn’t get it done until … Continue reading
An IKEA hack stacked plywood desk for Ari’s very, very slow room makeover! Putting your own top on Ikea’s Alex drawer units to make a desk is not a revolutionary idea, as a quick glance at Pinterest will tell you. But it is, nevertheless, what we did, and we put a bit of our own twist on it by using … Continue reading
Hey Happy New Year! Thank goodness it’s off to such a boring start that promises a happy, drama-free year, right?! Heh. I’m kidding. But here in our house, things are indeed off to a boring and drama free start. We’ve just kind of been sitting around playing video games and reading and doing puzzles, in fact, and having a hard … Continue reading
This window in our library used to be the spot where we put a white Christmas tree every year, generally with blue ornaments, sometimes even blue dinosaurs: And this was lovely, but, over time, the white Christmas tree (a thrift find) got sadder and sadder looking, and it got harder and harder to rearrange things to make the gaps left by … Continue reading
Affiliate links ahead! If you buy something after following one of my links, I get a small commission but you don’t pay anything extra. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! This is the first year in a long, long time that I haven’t joined in with any blog hop type Christmas tour posts, and I feel kind of sad about it. … Continue reading
Cluck, cluck, cluck! I know that Halloween already happened. But is there really ANY time of year that’s not the right time of year to dress up like a chicken?! Anyway, I didn’t get this post up in time, but if I wait until next year, I’ll never remember to write it–so here it is, and if you found this … Continue reading
Just a very quick post to show off my Halloween decorating, because, hey! I decorated for Halloween a little and it’s not like anyone’s coming over to the house lately to look at it, right? Right. The only thing I bought new this year is also THE BEST PURCHASE I’VE EVER MADE. Well. Anyway, I’m excited about it: I got … Continue reading
We’re in the middle of the very long process of replacing all of our upstairs carpet with bamboo. As in, it’s been going on for years now, and I’m not sure when it will be complete. But right now we’ve done three out of four bedrooms, so I feel ready to talk about the big question of how it’s all … Continue reading
In an utterly unsurprising turn of events, a project that was supposed to consist of ripping out carpet and putting down bamboo in Ari’s room has turned into something…bigger. But first, here’s where we started: That’s what his room has looked like since we first redid it back when he was twelve. And now he’s just turned NINETEEN. So I … Continue reading
We haven’t done a real garden in years, mostly because we’ve gone on long summer trips every year lately. That and how we are, historically, not very good at gardening. But this year we’re home at least until the end of June and maybe all summer (we change our minds pretty much daily about which is more likely; at the … Continue reading