I am in love with black chalkboard walls. I just love how they are so dramatic and yet totally playful at the same time. Painting a wall with black chalkboard paint adds a sense of humor to a room, and I am a huge fan of making a house quirky,...
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 totally renovate (uh… sort of),...
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 December 31, 2017 and created...
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 didn’t have any social media...
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 amazing organization that helps to...
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 last fall, including our family...
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 well-respected program that a lot...
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 for adults but way too...
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 read 75 books. Last year,...
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 the second we got the...