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
Quick review: when we first realized we were going to need a nursery (and that we didn’t want to give up the guest room for it, at least not right away), we planned to hire someone to put up a wall with french doors, dividing our ginormous (29 by 13) master bedroom into two sections. Then this started to seem….expensive. … 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
What do we think? Eventually I’d like to de-Bloggerify and use something more flexible…..but, let’s be honest, I wouldn’t have a clue what to do with more flexibility right now anyway. As it is, I needed my eleven year old to help me change things around. But, yeah, much as I love my Boxy Colonial, it was kind of overwhelmingly … 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
First a few notes:*The Advent calendar continues to be a hit. Today we’re making giant paper snowflakes.*I think I need a totally non-fun version of the calendar for me. It would say things like, “mail the property tax check before you have to pay a penalty, you dummy!” “do some laundry,” and “get to work on those photo books; it’s … Continue reading
THIS is the project my broken (well, broken until yesterday; still somewhat unreliable and testy) printer delayed and nearly ruined Christmas by refusing to print for me. My poor kids didn’t even have an Advent calendar until December 2! Tragic! And, of course, if you’re reading this in 2012, you either already have an Advent calendar or you’re pretty much … Continue reading
I know that there are approximately 80 gazillion tutorials out there for how to make your very own DIY coasters out of 16 cent tiles from Lowes….but I think maybe the reason for this is that coasters are actually pretty useful (like, if I had any, I wouldn’t always have to grab a random scrap of paper to put my … Continue reading