renovating a townhouse & raising twins
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Hello, friends! Crickets. Um, hello? Anybody? Dad? In case someone does check in here, let me explain where I’ve been. Way back in October (when I last blogged), I was making progress on a few house projects–updating the master bedroom, getting ready to change the nursery to a big girl room, and finishing the front porch. (Ok, I was thinking about the porch, but mostly just allowing it to consume me with guilt. That’s almost like working on it, right?) Then– poof!– all my…
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Happy Halloween, folks! Turns out I unintentionally took October off from my otherwise rigorous blogging schedule. Oops. But what better reason to get back on track than October’s Random Acts of Craftiness Challenge? None, I say. As a reminder, challenge participants attempt to make something…
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Do you know what today is? It’s project reveal day for the first round of the Random Acts of Craftiness Challenge, wherein blogging and non-blogging crafty types make cool stuff out of random stuff without consulting the interwebs for inspiration. (Learn more here.) This month’s crafting challenge…
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Have you heard of Bagster? It’s like a cross between this… …and this. It’s a really small dumpster. It’s a really big bag. It’s a Bagster! We used one for our front porch demo, and it was perfect for our needs. So today I’m sharing why we used Bagster, the basics of how it works, and a few insider…
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I like my canvases chunky, like my peanut butter. At least when it comes to medium to large(ish) scale art. For something that’s only, say, 11 x 18″, half an inch is thick enough for me. [More on those paintings here.] But once you get up to 18 x 24″ or so, a nice inch-thick canvas just feels so…
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Well folks, it’s official — it’s fall! Except in the sense that it’s not technically fall yet. But you know what I mean. It’s back to school time. Classes start at Hubby’s school tomorrow, so we’re getting back in the swing of things around here. I’ve had fall organization fever, and I have loads…
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Subtitle: How I re-learned that gardening is not my super power I’ve shared before that Hubby was determined to whip our backyard into shape this year. His first big project back in April was to build a multi-tiered planter that runs the full thirty feet from our house to the back fence. Well…
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You know when you finally resolve a small but lingering irritation in your home and it feels disproportionately thrilling? Like when organizing the utensil drawer or getting that rug to stop slipping feels almost as good as, say, painting a room or something that just seems like a much bigger deal?…
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Here’s something sad and ugly that I finally put to rest. Sure, a magnetic notepad is an easy solution for the list dependent (like us), but I prefer to keep the refrigerator cleared off. So I kept removing this one. Then, after list-less living netted too many forgotten groceries, Hubby insisted…
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Folks, this post has been a year in the making. Oh yes, this little gem… …has been in hiding for quite a while. But I’ll get to that. On Saturday there is a huge yard sale at my parents’ church. I mean HUGE. It’s an annual event, and people come from far and wide to shop the cast offs of this…
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Subtitle: How I painted my faux bamboo dresser Something big has happened at our house. (Hint: see subtitle) It might not be significant in other homes, particularly those that house people with follow-through to match their grand ideas. But here, in the home of this chronic 90 percenter? Of this…