Right this second, I’m sitting at a campground on Jekyll Island, having a glass of wine and watching Jesus Christ Superstar Live. But just a week ago, we were frantically trying to get the floors finished in Milo and Gus’s room and put their new beds together so they could move back in and we could get the house semi-put … Continue reading
What we really like to do is to start some kind of big project that absolutely has to be done by a certain, not very far away, time. Like re-doing a guest bath right before a bunch of people arrive for Christmas. Or tearing down our old deck right before we go out of town for two months on a … Continue reading
It’s spring! More precisely, it’s almost spring, and it’s FREEZING outside (although not actually snowing like in much of the country). But it is, at any rate, that time of year when even lovers of winter like myself start to look forward to warmer weather and are eager for an excuse to fill in the decor gaps left behind when Christmas stuff … Continue reading
Post contains affiliate links. If you buy something after clicking on my links, you don’t pay any extra, but I make a small commission. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! Last time we had chickens, in our old house, we started out with a chicken coop smack in the middle of the yard. Then we realized that this resulted in an … Continue reading
(I have a finished chicken pen! It is beautiful! But it was raining all day Sunday, so I couldn’t take pictures, so it will have to wait a few days). Sometimes things move fast around here. Usually they move really, really slowly (I mean, the decorating parts), but sometimes they move unexpectedly quickly. I mentioned back when in my Superkea Sunday post … Continue reading
One of the first things we did when we moved into this house was buying Ikea Billy shelves and glass doors for the formal living room turned library. Six years later, it’s one of the few things I’ve never been tempted to change. Aesthetically, I still love how they look and how they’re one of the first things you see … Continue reading
I was sure that this year’s Superkea Sunday was going to be much more crowded than last year’s, when the Falcons were playing. I was wrong! Ikea was satisfyingly dead, and we enjoyed the least congested Superkea Sunday in recent memory. If you’re new to the blog and have no idea what I’m talking about, we have a family tradition … Continue reading
Post contains affiliate links. If you buy something after following my links, I get a small commission, but you don’t pay anything extra. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! Back when my older kids were little, doing a bunch of themed movie nights in preparation for our Disney trips always sounded like a fabulous, superfun idea. But I had so many little kids! I think … Continue reading
Here’s how the dining room looks at the moment. Well, not this exact moment, but when the table’s cleaned off: The dining room is a funny trouble spot, in that I’ve never been happy with it even though I am pretty happy with the furniture in it and, with the exception of the chairs, that hasn’t changed much since we moved … Continue reading
Post contains affiliate links. If you buy something after following my links, I get a small commission, but you don’t pay any extra. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! Here’s why my Christmas recap is so late this year: I wanted to show you our new girls! We had chickens several years ago, at our old house, and gave them to … Continue reading