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October 15, 2012 - 28 Comments

What a jam-packed weekend we had! We celebrated Chris’s birthday, shopped ’til we dropped, had family pictures taken and friends over for dinner. Since Chris’s birthday was Saturday, one of my unspoken gifts to him was zero house projects–so I …

DIY

Gray Squirrel and Bright White

October 12, 2012 - 8 Comments

There were a few factors that went into choosing the paint color for the laundry room–1. Does it work well with the other colors in our home? 2. Does it match the tile flooring that we’re keeping for now? 3. …

Decor

Misfit Pumpkins

October 11, 2012 - 9 Comments

How does the saying go? “It gets worse before it gets better.”?? Yeah, that sums up our laundry room/half bath situation perfectly. Last night, we were able to remove (almost) everything from the room, tear out the tile baseboard and …

DIY

Laundry Room 2.0. Go! Go! Go!

October 10, 2012 - 7 Comments

It’s time for our annual laundry room revamp. Ha! I wish I was joking. We really would love to not make fixing up the laundry room/half bath an annual thing–but time has worn this baby down again. Last year, we …

Inspiration

A Colorful Couch–Would You?

October 9, 2012 - 27 Comments

Our hunt has officially begun for a new sofa for the living room. We always knew the Klippan was temporary. We had just bought a house and had next to no furniture, so shelling out $400 for a couch that …

Decor

This Little Couch of Ours

October 8, 2012 - 9 Comments

Our Ikea Klippan 4-seater couch is turning out to be not quite the easy-peasy couch we thought it was when we bought it last year. Granted, it was only $400, which is in no way pocket change, but for a …

Our Life

A Breath and A Break.

October 4, 2012 - 14 Comments

Maybe you noticed I didn’t post yesterday. (Maybe you didn’t! Ha!) Some things have come up and I just need to take a deep breath and a break. So can we just make a date for Monday? Same time, same …

Our Life

Truth Tuesday: How NOT to throw a Party.

October 2, 2012 - 8 Comments

Last year we threw a costume party. Our first. While it was seriously a blast, there’s a reason we don’t run a party-planning blog. We have been laughing (so we don’t cry?) at our mistakes for over a year. Our …

DIY

The End is Near

October 1, 2012 - 5 Comments

We had an okay weekend over here. Greta was under the weather on Friday. Then I was feeling crummy on Saturday and Sunday and poof, there goes the weekend. But it is a new day and a new week and …

Art

Make Way

September 28, 2012 - 5 Comments

Something big is going on the next few days. We are cleaning out as much of our Etsy shop as possible, (*cough* the studio is getting crowded) to make way for new art. New paintings and new–better!–chalkboard drawings and prints. …

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