I feel like I’m referencing a poem with that title, but, if I am, I don’t know which one it is. (a ha! I googled. I knew it sounded familiar! Wordsworth: THE world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, … Continue reading
We’re still kind of finding our groove with getting projects done now that Dave is back at work, so I just have a tiny one for you today. But free! Or, well, upcycled? That’s what you say, right? I did not leave my house for any of the materials used in this project, is what I’m getting at. Background: after … Continue reading
Back before my now 12 year old, Ari, was born, I would tell people we were planning to use cloth diapers and encounter skepticism. “That won’t last!” older, more experienced parents would tell me. Naturally, I took this as a challenge. So, from the beginning, failure wasn’t an option. Admitting defeat is not something I’m good at. In light of … Continue reading
I don’t really expect my new foster almost every week streak to keep up, but so far they’ve all been in and out of here super fast. Which is great, since the sooner one foster gets adopted, the sooner I can get to work finding a home for the next one (and the lower the chances I’ll get so attached … Continue reading
Dave is still working on his massively detailed post on how to build a farmhouse table. And I have a small project to write about, but the weather is not cooperating for taking pictures. So here’s a catch up post with a bunch of little things that don’t need their own posts but that I want to tell everyone about … Continue reading
I know we’re probably all pretty nostalgic for my summer Disney series that I finished last week ;), so I thought I’d ease you back into the whole boring fall routine (I know it’s still firmly summer for a lot of you, but Dave went back to work last week, so it’s fall to us) with one more summer travel … Continue reading
 At some point over the past couple of weeks of doing this mini kitchen update (I’m hoping for a bigger kitchen update sometime soon, as discussed here) I realized that my kitchen could now be a museum exhibit from the future: “Typical Blogger’s House, c. 2013.” Granite countertops. Farmhouse table. Chalkboard Wall. And now….greige walls. Benjamin Moore’s Revere Pewter, … Continue reading
A bit late, but here it is: the LAST installment of my summer Disney series. Once you’re there, you’re going to have to eat, right? This (like pretty much everything Disney) can be an overwhelming topic. I spent much time thinking about how to organize this post (maybe THAT’S why it’s a week late!) and have finally settled on the … Continue reading
Are you ready for this? I’m about to BLOW.YOUR.MIND. There is this paint that you can buy that turns any surface in  your house into a CHALKBOARD. True story. Okay. I suppose at this point talking about how overdone chalkboard walls are is pretty much as overdone as chalkboard walls themselves. But what about talking about talking about how overdone … Continue reading
For someone who’s owned three houses, I’m a pretty inexperienced rug buyer. Our only rug at our last house was in our living room. It was a giant antique dark red oriental rug…all worn down flat and threadbare in some places, and I loved it lots. Then our dog Oliver got really old and started peeing on it, so we … Continue reading