Or maybe this should be titled any pile of dirt gives me a feeling of Deja-vu. And maybe somewhat of a desire to sit in the corner of this money pit and drink an entire bottle of wine. (We won’t talk about that one.) We’re back to trying to get the second upstairs bathroom tied […]
The Day of the Flood
By all accounts, Friday morning started off pretty great. No kids were up yet, the house was quite. The dogs were quietly napping beside me and I was enjoying my first cup of coffee in some much needed peace and quiet. When I hear it… blub… Wait, was that a kid awake upstairs? What a weird […]
DIY Pool Skimmer Basket Repair
April showers bring pool nightmares. Since we live on this glorious Texas soil that insists on moving with each season, the skimmer basket attached to our pool has given way to the soils’ seasonal whims. When we first moved in three years ago, we noticed that we were having to put water in the pool […]
A Visit to the Family Farm
I don’t know what it is about visions of farm life dancing through my head, but I have dreams of living out in the middle of nowhere just like Laura Ingalls Wilder. I know I over romanticize the whole thing. I think it’s just when it gets crazy around our house, the thought of a […]
Making Over an Old Teacher’s Desk
After I decided I was in love with the table I refinished for my daughter’s desk, I had to go on the hunt for another one for her. I found this little beauty on Craigslist for a sweet $25! It was big and heavy and indestructible, which is perfect for her. Her only request was […]
Planting Bare-Root Trees
I’m starting to think trees and plants are just one of those things I like to collect. Weird, huh? And honestly, I don’t really have a much of a green thumb. It’s kind of survival of the fittest around our house and yard. I’ll try my hardest to baby it for the first year. After […]
Artichokes Galore
I had planned on dividing my artichokes in the fall, you know, like a real gardener would do. But between all the crap-tastically glorious repairs we had going on with the house, it fell completely off my list of to-do items. So this is what I get. Artichokes run amok. Amok, amok, amok, I tell […]
Getting Rid of Greasy-Sticky Messes
Okay, this is random and weird and frankly, just downright gross. We’ve had this nasty sticky mess on our lazy-susan since we moved into the house. I didn’t want to put contact paper over it before I tried cleaning it with everything possible, because ewww, it would still be under there. I tried several commercial […]
DIY Hometown Sign
I LOVE the city we live in! I never in a million years would have thought that when we moved here roughly 12 years ago. Honestly, it was just a fluke. We liked that it was a small college town. That was about it. But I have to say, this small college town has it […]
Dining Room Table Update
I bought this sweet vintage dining room table on Craigslist about a year ago. This poor thing has languished in my dining room unfinished forever (sometimes a year is forever.) I finally got around to working on it and somewhere mid-redo, decided I didn’t really want a dining room. I mean we have one, but […]