Once a quarter, I wash our mattress pad and deep clean our mattress. It helps freshen everything and delay both normal wear-and-tear, as well as gross build-up that happens over time. Then I saw a note on Pinterest about the importance of washing your pillows. I’ve washed my pillows in the past, but not on […]
Ideas
Style Randomness
I took a quick style quiz on Cultivate, a home decorating website, the other week. Side note: I am a total sucker for “quick quizzes.” Fashion, decorating, pet names…I’m all over it. Anyway, I took the quiz to learn My Kitchen Style. Here’s what it said: Your kitchen style is: Transitional Timeless, refined, and sophisticated, […]
Yes, I Ride Public Transportation
Yes, I ride the train to and from work as often as my schedule will allow. No, I am not financially destitute with public transportation as my only option. And no, I’m (usually) not the crazy person on the train. Why take public transport? My commute takes a consistent amount of time. If traffic is good, […]
Cats Are Messy (A Pinterest Test)
Don’t let those photos of cats luxuriously bathing fool you. Cats make a mess. A big mess – from litter boxes to food scattered, floating piles of fur-fluff to toys left helter-skelter. They also sometimes lick the couch instead of themselves. Some of them, female cat’s name redacted here, do it a lot: Couch 1 […]
Fixing an Irritation
The side window curtain next to our front door has been driving me crazy for a long time. It flaps when the door opens, it gaps and lets strangers peek inside our family room and, though it’s hard to see in this photo, there are strange gaps between the rod and the window. Here’s a […]
Putting Pinterest to the Test
Pinterest is full of ideas, solutions and pure inspiration. I’m pretty faithful to pin all sorts of things – I’m just less faithful to try out anything but the recipes. Anyway, this week I decided to try out one of the nifty solutions I’d pinned. I decided to try it out mostly because of this: […]
Leadership Wisdom
As The Boy says, it’s easy to herd cats when you’re already going where they want to go. Take that, EDS.
Drink ‘Em – Eat ‘Em: Chocolate Cordial Cups
I went to a party last year where beverages were served in chocolate cordial cups – fun! Meanwhile, we managed to acquire approximately one million bottles of Jamaican rum cream (not really, but I think we have six at this point from gifts and the like – long story). So drinks and enjoying rum cream […]
S’Mores Anytime
We love s’mores. We love them when we’re camping. We love them as a party dessert. It’s pretty safe to say we’d eat s’mores more often if they were easy to make without a fire. I’ve tried making them in the microwave, but that just results in an explosively puffy marshmallow. So s’mores have been […]
Putting the Personal in Personal Gallery Wall
After a month and a half of looking at this: I decided it was time to make the personal gallery wall in our master bedroom a little more personal. That meant it was time to replace the store images with things that were meaningful to the Hayleys. A few days of digging through photos and […]