Woowoo I did a very fun thing on Friday! Haha just kidding doing it was awful, but now that it’s done it’s SO FUN! I wallpapered our guest half-bathroom into the palm print paradise of my dreams! The wallpaper is Graham and Brown’s Honolulu Palm print wallpaper in green. Oh...
Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday. I love the costumes, the decorations, and did I mention the costumes?! I’ve heard that trick-or-treating in our new neighborhood is crazy fun because there are so many kids, so we’re really looking forward to participating this year. Almost all of our neighbors have decorated...
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 of amazing bright color and...
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 birthday, we jumped at the...
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 do would be to go...
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 moms/dads. And while I technically...
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 holiday decoration is commitment 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 have some practical things in...
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 we had originally: Here’s what the...
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! Even though we’re obviously going...