This is one I'm having a hard time letting go. This was was really a labor of frustration with a happy ending. Poppies in Evenin...

When we bought our house, one of the things that I really loved was the bay windows in the living room.  Fast-forward ten years later, and I...

Sorry for another disappearing act.  This summer hasn't turned out as I expected, and I've been pretty under the weather.  Being sic...

Hello again!  It's been a month since my last post.  Did you think I gave up blogging?  I've been working on a big project that cons...

My favorite part of shopping at ReStore is digging through boxes of odds and ends.  Recently, they received a donation of random curtain rod...

My husband is now fully on board with making some much needed updates to our home.  We're finally replacing the 90's builder-grade l...

One of my resolutions this year is to finish the projects that are really starting to collect.  I have a bad habit of finding all sorts of t...

I kid you not, as soon as I hit "post" on the ruffled tea towel mini-tutorial, my husband called up the stairs, "I see we n...

I'm usually not the sort of person who would buy a guest towel.  My husband says, "You would never buy a guest wrench!  'Don...

During this summer's drought, I only watered when absolutely necessary, so the garden is looking pretty shabby.  This winter I'm goi...

In my part of the country, finished basements are pretty typical.  Some are really tricked out with elaborate wet bars, and I really questi...