We had a busy weekend.  A few family events mingled with lots of home projects, including the laundry room vanity.  This is what it looked like originally: Removing the wallpaper and painting the room improved things, but the oval mirror …

Those of you that guessed “concrete floor” in yesterday’s post were right!  That was a very close photo of our newly stained concrete floors in our guest room.  The project was intense and long and we just finished filming the …

New game!  I get to take a really close photo of a spot or object in our home and you get to guess where or what it is.  Ready? Go. 

Magic,  leftover paint from the basement and about 2 hours. Getting the wallpaper border off was pie.  The walls in the laundry room are very textured, which isn’t close to ideal to start with, so the paper was already pealing …

Anyone want to guess what color we painted the guest room?  And no, I’m not talking about the color we chose our first go at it.  If you remember, we didn’t quite get the color right the first time.  The …

This is the only picture you have seen of our laundry room/half bath right off of the family room: The room is not pretty to look at, so we usually just get our laundry done and get outta there.  The …

I’m back to share what I’m making this week.  My first week cooking went great and it was fun to try new recipes.  Some of them were fantastic, but I probably wouldn’t make the garlic-parmesan edamame again–turns out we prefer …

Every once in awhile, we put the paintbrushes down and live life.  Birthdays are definitely those times.  After toggling between a few different ideas of what to get Chris for his birthday yesterday, I scrapped them all and decided to …

Happy Birthday to a pretty amazing person: …and I’m not the only one who thinks so.  I love you, birthday boy.  I am so grateful to be your wife and best friend.  We have a blast together and tonight is …

Yup, it’s that time again.  Except this time instead of blabbing on about how “I just can’t stand___,” I want to show you exceptions I have found.  And because I don’t want to get things messy as far as trackbacks …