It’s been a busy couple of days. Seriously, stuff just kept breaking. We had intended to have a fun and relaxing weekend, with a trip to a friend’s house for pipe smoking and good conversation for Doug and a trip to a few thrift stores and an estate sale or two for me. Instead weRead more
Heads up: there is an image contained in this post (after the jump) that may not be appropriate for certain workplaces or age groups. You’ve been warned. The paint is up! And can I just say that we LOVE it! All that testing sure paid off, don’t you think? For the record, the color weRead more
People, finding the right navy blue paint is HARD. When we painted our bathroom Richmond Green, I think I tried one other color just so we could be extra special sure, but once Richmond Green was up on the wall, even in a tiny 12 by 12 area, it was perfectly obvious that was goingRead more
The office in our house is a perpetual problem. First, we call it an “office”, but it’s basically a glorified storage room. We don’t need a desk. We work in the living room. We had a desk in the office for two years and we never used it so we opted for a large dresserRead more
A couple of months ago, I picked up a lamp at the Bargain Loft thrift store in Herndon. It was pretty hideous and also broken. The harness was detached from the base, and though it was possible to shove it back in I highly doubted it would be safe to use as is. Also, theRead more
Remember how I said on last week that I rarely buy art because I don’t know that much about it? Well, that’s not strictly true. I just so rarely see anything I like in a thirft store (hello Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light yuck gag cough retch) that I almost never buy anything. Plus, thriftRead more
Doug and I both read a lot. I make a weekly trip to the library, but we also have a lot of books. The living room shelves The office shelves Bedroom shelves More bedroom shelves Yet more bedroom shelves Are you getting the sense that there are a lot of books in the bedroom yet?Read more
We had a friend over for dinner last week. I made pasties, salad and lemon cake. Not fancy, but definitely delicious. It was a good friend so I didn’t really need to get everything perfect for the occasion, but that day was Clean ALL the Things so the house looked pretty good. Puggle photobomb TheRead more
Yesterday was a pretty productive day considering I spent the first part of it in bed nursing a headache. It was raining so I didn’t feel too bad about it. Actually, that’s a lie. Despite the fact that I had an awful headache and that it was raining, which limited what I could do withRead more
The wife will play. Last time my husband went on a business trip, I did this: Yep, open shelving in the kitchen. It’s been up since April and we love it. Putting away clean dishes is a breeze and since our kitchen is tiny, it freed up an entire cabinet for baking ingredients like tenRead more