Our house went through a major upgrade last year when we replaced the majority of the flooring in our downstairs. At the same time, we got rid of our living room furniture. Mismatched couches went out in favor of a new sectional. The room is an odd shape, and we knew our furniture layout wasn’t […]
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March 2020 Wrap Up
March came in like a lamb this year and went out like the most bad-a&% lion we’ve seen in my lifetime. Our spring vacation started with the Publix Atlanta Half and Full Marathon. Another state off the list! We spent the better part of a week in South Carolina, site seeing, resting, enjoying local breweries, […]
February 2020 Wrap Up
February was, in general, a really fun month. I have decided the best way to start a month is to have your forever-cheered-for football team win the Super Bowl. I did nearly die doing a workout class with my teammates. The travel walls are updated! Another State of the City successfully orchestrated. We ran the […]
Tweaks to the Travel Wall
A month after our sweet Bridget was gone, I noticed our family wall didn’t have any photos of Oliver or Jasper. I also noticed our travel wall was missing photos from several great trips we’ve taken over the past few years (especially in 2019). Because it was still early in the new year, I still […]
Easy Fancy Blanket
This was such a fun project – even better that it was fast to do! – with a WOW result. For your own pom-pom blanket, plan on using 1.5 yards of fleece (2 yards if you want a group snuggle size) and about twice as many yards of trim as yards of fleece. I saved […]
Bookshelf Quick Fix
I totally love our bookshelves – we’ve had them for over a decade. But after changing from carpet to hardwood, and moving the bookshelves to a new location, I noticed something strange. See it? The base of one bookshelf has plywood at the base! How did we miss this for so many years? Clearly I […]
January 2020 Wrap Up
Slow but busy month. Weird, right? New Year’s Day 5-mile run – as always. Oliver broke his Christmas toy. It didn’t even make it one week. Jasper continued his sexy posing on our new wood floors. A friend gave us the best “Bridget was special and I know you miss her” gift. We outran sleet […]
Bringing Order to Bookshelf Chaos
Just like people have happy weights, I think our house has a happy number of books. No matter how many times I purge our (four) bookshelves, donating hard copies of books we now own electronically to the Friends of the Plano Public Library sale, I seem to have just as many books at home. This […]
Easy Family Gift | Preserve Priceless Family Recipes
This was such an easy thing to make and yet so very meaningful for me and my mom and sisters. I found the how-to on Spoonflower’s blog – Spoonflower prints your designs on material, which is a great way to create something totally unique. In my case, I have a collection of hand-written recipes from […]
Fun Kids Gift | Easy-Craft Unicorn Outfit
This was one of the easiest, most confounding and fantastic projects I’ve ever worked on. I’m just going to say: Pinterest demonstrates exactly why technical writing is a profession. What makes sense to one person does not necessarily make sense to another. That being said, my project inspiration and the original instructions are here. Shopping […]