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Cabin Kitchen Layout Plans

You may find this shocking, considering the blog you’re on, but there aren’t really that many “projects” at the cabin. Sure, there is painting that needs to be done, and plenty of design choices, but there are no walls to knock down, no bathrooms to...

Our Year in Seconds

Are you familiar with the app 1 Second Everyday? The concept is simple: upload a 1- or 1.5-second video or photo every day. (Technically they allow two videos/photos per day, which is why my video is longer than 6 minutes!) I started using the app...

2013 goal: unplug

I’m addicted to my phone. It’s sad. I check Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google Reader at least once every 15 minutes. It’s not a habit I’m very proud of. I never thought I would act like this. In fact just over a year ago I...

Teaching Kids the Value of Giving

When I was planning Oliver’s first birthday party over the summer, I changed my mind about a thousand times about the theme — eek, so many ideas! But one thing I always knew I wanted to do was to collect books for Kids’ Book Bank, an...

Vintage-Inspired Home Bar

Now that our kitchen renovation is wrapping up (sort of), we’re starting to think about what’s next. As much as we would love to take a break from projects, we still have a couple of rooms that we haven’t touched at all since we moved in...

Ice cream school

Andy left yesterday for ice cream school. Yes, it’s a real thing! He is quite an ice cream maker and is hoping to open his own shop, Pints & Pints, focusing on boozy ice creams. Penn State’s Ice Cream Short Course is a well-known and...

French Cleat Entryway Wall

You know I’d really like to have this post show some before and after pictures, but I’m just realizing now that I never took any before shots of the entryway. Close your eyes and imagine this: six very small hooks that were a good height...

The 75 Books I Read in 2020 & My 10 Favorites

Everyone has their ways to try to manage the insanity that has been 2020 — bingeing TV, making sourdough — and I read. Reading is BY FAR my favorite escape from reality, and boy oh boy did I want to escape this year. So I...

Our Kitchen Renovation: Before

Ahhhh, we’re soooo excited that we’re starting to move forward with our kitchen renovation!! When we bought our new house last summer, we did so with the intention of knocking down some walls and opening up the whole kitchen/dining room/living room, so we started working on the plans...

Try These Recipes For National S’mores Day

In college, my roommate and I used to sneak mini marshmallows out of the cafeteria (the only size they had) and would “roast” them over a candle in our dorm room to make s’mores!!! Andy and I have totally been known to roast our marshmallows...