After a week of fabulous giveaways and turkey-eating, I thought it would be fun to kick back with a little tutorial! You can whip up this placemat in a jiffy for under $20! It's...
Welcome to December: The whirlwind of holiday dinners, parties, family gatherings, cookie baking, and card sending. Christmas Cards. The thought of wrangling Steven and I up on a Sunday afternoon, getting the...
Today is going to be a short and sweet tutorial on how to hem curtains. It's a simple job, but a lot of people don't know how to hem! Once you know how to...
When I was young, my mom received a beautiful cotton wreath from a friend that recently moved to the South. When she told us that she picked the cotton from her backyard to make...
My backyard garden is so embarrassing! Wooden stakes leaning over the falling over wooden fence, posts are missing from my fight with our giant groundhog, tomatoes rotting on the ground—it's a disaster! In my...
Today I am thrilled to present my most helpful online tool for budgeting and planing your basement renovation. It's very simple yet incredibly helpful. It plans your renovation budget for you and even has...
As you know, I've been hard at work on my basement. Looking back at my Basement Remodel post from back in March, I just want to pat sweet little Rachel on the...
We all have that one weird thing in our home: a doorbell speaker that belongs in Victorian England, built ins, intercom systems...old houses have weird stuff character! My nightmare: the telephone box....
The past few weeks have been quite an adventure: my dear uncle (an HVAC professional) came and helped us decipher some of the heating issues in our home, which looks like it's going to...
It's time for a new piece that I'm calling The Monthly Mirror! Each month, we are going to go through a very beautiful, very expensive space and help you get the look...