Oh, One Room Challenge...you are the mistress I love to hate. Your pull is strong, my dear. When I don't participate, I feel left out...but when I do, I question my sanity. For those unfamiliar with the One Room Challenge...or The ORC as my fellow bloggers refer to it as...it's a challenge to makeover a room in only 6 weeks and document[...]
When you buy a new old house there are so many issues that can pop up. Ours is not old, old...like Victorian old. I mean, let's face it. The Boy would never let me buy a structure with leaded windows, a wood-burning furnace, turret, spiral staircase, or parlor room. In fact, when I suggested we look at one, he laughed and exclaimed, "Do[...]
There's a lot of things I love about our new home, but it has a few nooks of sadness. One is the patio, and that's the one place during the summer months where we love to spend our time. There's nothing quite like kicking back in the evening, crickets chirping, fireflies lighting up the woods. All that was missing last summer was the pool[...]
For the last couple of years, the back patio has been our labor of love (and hate). We've had some frustrating times and tears might have been shed, decks and stairs built, ripped out, and rebuilt again. It was a wild ride, but I'm happy to report, IT'S COMPLETE, and I'm happy as a clam. Well, minus furniture it's complete, but I had to[...]
Well, they probably don't have better stuff, but their homes are probably more put together than mine. I think I have ADHD...I start a project with good intentions...completely focused and then oh look, a chicken, something shiny and I'm on to the next project when ooooh look shinier, I wander around a bit, move something around and then[...]