Every once in a while I discover an artist whose work just makes me gasp. That’s exactly the reaction I had recently when I saw some of Yellena James‘ art on sfgirlbybay. Each of her pieces is like entering a whole new alien world full...
We knew we wanted to try to visit the LA area sometime in the next year or so, but when we just happened to get an email promoting cheap flights from CLE to LAX right when we were trying to figure out what to do for Andy’s...
Well. Someday we are getting a new kitchen. But we took the first step and have an appointment with a kitchen design place to drawn up plans. Someone is coming out later this week to take measurements. YAY! Andy and I decided the best thing to...
I saw this article on Apartment Therapy yesterday, What Is It Like to be a Full-time Homemaker. You should definitely read it. It’s essentially a list of questions for people who have made the decision to quit their jobs to stay home, but who aren’t stay-at-home...
I’m skipping Wedding Wednesday this week because I’m way too excited about Halloween. It might be my favorite holiday… Costumes! Decorations! (Actually, hmm, kinda sounds like a wedding, right?) But instead of weddings, today I want to talk about decorating a Halloween table. The key to...
Now that our kitchen is closer to done, I get to start working on the fun stuff — decorating it! We’re going to eventually have open shelves next to the chimney, so I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s going on them. We want to...
We have a new ceiling light in the living room! FINALLY! It’s the Ikea Maskros “dandelion” light, which, of course, we DIYed gold. Here’s what the room looked like before and immediately after painting it from pink to white, and you can see the dinky light...
Can you believe next week is the first day of summer? We’re also just a couple weeks away from the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, which just happens to be the same time that we’ll be in town to work on the cabin’s kitchen!...
I am really in a sharing mood this week! Now I want to show you pictures of our new-and-so-improved Rumpus Room. So this is the room where we spend by far the most amount of time. Because this is the room with the TV. And...
I am a self proclaimed pizza snob. It’s true. Like most college students, my daily caloric intake was mainly pizza. Luckily for me, I was going to school in the Bronx. So over four very formative food years, I stuffed my face with what could...