I’ve spent the last couple of days buried under piles of ribbon and fabric and interfacing and thread and buttons and rick rack and elastic and patterns and… are you getting the point? I finally decided my little corner of the basement needed an overhaul. It was taking me longer to find anything than to [...]
Cattywampus frames on the walls drive me nuts. Not that I’m always uptight about the little things, but it irritates me to walk by and notice that the picture of the kids in the hallway is crooked again. Doesn’t matter how often I straighten them, because the next time Viking goes blasting down this hall [...]
We’ve been playing with Valentine decorations over the last week or two and I thought I’d give you a little tour of what we’ve done. My kids are crafty kiddos and love doing projects! We made heart ornaments to hang on our ficus tree in the living room. I just took cheap plastic Hobby Lobby [...]
We had a few families from church over last night and the kids outnumbered the adults 9 to 8 (all under age 6!). I figured with odds like that a project was in order so we made sugar shacks. They are like gingerbread houses, but made with sugar cubes and royal icing; we decorated with [...]
I have great plans for handiness and craftiness today. Handiness: The hot water handle is leaking in our shower. After some judicious time with Google, I believe this is something I can fix. (One of my mottoes in life is, “How hard can it be?!”) I went to Home Depot to get what I needed [...]
It was a cold weekend here, and while I don’t mind winter, I’m looking forward to Spring. This is the first time in years that I have had a place to garden to my heart’s content and I’m eager. I ordered a pile of gardening catalogs and can’t think of a better way to spend [...]
I splurged on an Upper Case Living decal for my front door a few weeks ago. I hadn’t put it up yet, so decided this afternoon was the time. I was excited about it. I thought about what people might think when they came up to our front door and we welcomed them into our [...]
Maybe other people have used this phrase, but Nester is the first place I heard it. Since I’m doing a spending fast, I have been shopping the house to finish some decorating and nesting, and I have made some really fun discoveries! I guess that’s the upside to having a lot of things in storage [...]
Last night’s party was a fun event. All the food was hot at the same time, I was showered, and the bathroom was clean when everyone arrived. What more could you want, other than a Rosie to clean up afterward? A whole lotta this is what greeted me this morning. So what did I do? [...]
Principesa is all girl – the girliest of girls – and we had a friend come over and ramp up the girl factor in her room today. She painted a flower border all the way around, painted faux shutters inside the window seat, and started adding some extras such as a picket fence in one [...]
