Since posting some pics of areas in my house, and reading some comments and exchanges on similar posts about taming the house-mess, I feel the need to explain a few things about myself. This might get a bit ramble-y.First of all, I wasn't always such a tidy person. (There. I said it.)I grew up in a … [Read more...]
Shelf Shaping
I love setting up bookshelves. And I'm kinda nerdy about it.I think I love it because, for me, it's a work in progress. I'm forever tweaking - rearranging items or finding spaces for new books, or a photograph. This time around, I've even a potted plant or two since the shelves now face a … [Read more...]
A Touch of Adorableness
My kids share a bedroom. They're small still, so I'm riding out this arrangement for as long as humanly possible. Especially since we recently claimed the last available room in the house for ourselves, for a sexy dressing room. (I swoon as I type this.)Well, it's my house, and I was here … [Read more...]
Choosing the Right Time to De-Christmas
I'm going to make more of an effort not to have my tree up into February this year.I LOVE having a Christmas tree so much... and since we moved our bed into what was formerly the living room three years ago, I have the pretty, pretty tree just inches from my head in my bedroom. It is glorious. The … [Read more...]
A Wee Bit of Happy
Sometime this week, in between bouts of sweating and faint-y feelings, with a break in fever, I slipped a few shelves and drawers into my shiny new closet system...As I wander about the house, sneezing and stuff, I sometimes just come and stand in front of the open door. Because it pleases me. In a … [Read more...]
Sneak Peek
Well, the dusty, miserable, un-fun parts of our home improvements project has finally turned a corner, and we're finally onto The Pretty.Before these we got our tres-delicious closet system from Ikea, Martin and I had shared a closet. It was the closet in our former bedroom in our very old … [Read more...]
Things Can Always Be Worse
I've been AWOL lately because my house has been (unhappily) under shrink-wrap. We've have a house painter here - for about 4 weeks now - and though I'm doing my very best to stay focused on the bigger, brighter picture, the realities of having the entire family crammed into a third of our usual … [Read more...]
Linens and Things – I’m So Nerdy
I admit it: I'm nerdy about my laundry.Back in the days before children when I was running a small business from home, I was also, you know, the homemaker which was okay with me because I had a lot of time in which to take care of everything. I watched a lot of Martha … [Read more...]
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