In case you missed last week’s post, I am doing a monthly a project from the Young House Love book and and “git ‘er done”. I fully expect some of them to be disasters, but how do you ever learn anything without first making a big mess of something? Here’s why I’m doing this challenge.Read more
It’s time for another edition of the Young House Love Book Project Challenge! In case you missed it last month, every month, I will choose a project from the Young House Love book and and “git ‘er done”. I fully expect some of them to be disasters, but how do you ever learn anything withoutRead more
Last week, I challenged myself to do a project a month from the Young House Love book. The premise is that I had bookmarked about a hundred projects, but after a brief burst of activity right when I got the book, I hadn’t tackled any additional projects. I also invited others, via the Young HouseRead more
Back in November of 2012, an amazing thing happened. My very favorite bloggers released a really awesome book. If you don’t have it yet, you’re going to need a copy. I went to a signing. I put post-it flags on all the projects I wanted to try. And I did a couple projects. Vintage shelfRead more
I have no ideas of my own. Seriously. This is why I read blogs. I love to do projects and love to find creative solutions to the problems that crop up while I’m doing them, but when it comes to creating an idea out of my own head and executing it? Not my strong suit.Read more
So we’re clear, I don’t talk about Young House Love every day. Okay, I totally do. I love their blog, I love their book, I love them. I love everything they do. I met them while they were out on their book tour and they were super nice. John and Sherry both signed my bookRead more
Let me be clear: I’m not normally one to go in for rappers. Over the years the only rap that has ever gotten significant play in my house has been Gil Scott-Heron at one end of the spectrum and MC Hammer on the other. So Macklemore? Not my usual fare. However, I had heard ThriftRead more
When I started posting some of my old vintage stuff that I wasn’t as excited about any more back in August, I wasn’t really expecting my little store to take off the way it has. In three months, I’ve sold a lot of stuff, some of which was purpose-bought for the store. As in, IRead more
We live in a two bedroom condo. You would think that the home improvement list for such a small place would be short. NO. Here, a la Young House Love, is our “Listy McListerton” of all the things we want to do to the place as time, inspiration and budget allow. Some of these thingsRead more
I love where we live. It’s a two-bedroom condo in a nice neighborhood. We have friendly neighbors and even though we’re not really close to much, we’re not really very far from anything either. We can get to Woodbridge in about the same amount of time it takes us to get to Arlington. We canRead more