basement ponderings & asbestos testing
Prepare yourself for one of the ugliest posts ever to grace this blog. Sometimes when you’re renovating an older home, things are ugly. It’s almost unavoidable. When we first looked at this house and considered buying it, the basement was the obvious sore thumb. It clearly had water issues because it felt humid, smelled dank […]
simple, natural fall mantel | autumn decorating
In the very early years of my blogging career, I connected with Layla of the Lettered Cottage. I was smitten with her design aesthetic and eye for styling. We both wrote tutorials for HGTV.com (you can find mine HERE) and wrote and contributed photography for several of the same editors and magazines. We met at […]
two years | 1970 home renovation
Can you believe we just passed the two-year mark of living in our current house? I feel like, between years two and three is when our MN home started really feeling like ours and I think the same is true for this house. While the Minnesota house just needed some updating and a huge injection […]
new art prints
I haven’t been doing as much painting as I’d like this year. How are we already deep into September and I have only had one or two original art sales this year?! I don’t think there is a simple answer for that, but it’s been a lot of things. I focused a lot of attention […]
another mid-size try-on from Walmart
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Walmart. As always, all words and opinions expressed in this post are honest and my own. I have already done a couple of Walmart try-ons recently, but when they asked me to do another, I was totally in! Not only have I had a fun time shopping their fall […]
restoration home
Since I’ve been about as productive as a sack of potatoes, I don’t have new and exciting things to share. Unfortunately, the dining room trim did not magically install itself and weeds did not pull themselves just because I willed them to go away. New paintings didn’t appear on my drying shelves and blog posts […]
adding doors back on a hutch | dining room makeover
The dining room makeover has been at a standstill since I painted the ceiling last weekend because I have been in bed sick for several days. I am up and about now but still moving slowly and not feeling the greatest. It’s just normal virus stuff – congestion, sore throat, cough, and aches. I’ve missed […]
why I read multiple books at one time
As I’ve shared before, I pretty habitually have a stack of books sitting in my studio at any given time. I try to stay tidy and keep the stack under control, but I keep adding to the stack and it gets comically high again. Sometimes it’s because I’ve acquired new books and they’re in the […]