wallpaper paste comparison
I know you’re just dying to know which type of wallpaper paste won out in my head-to-head challenge. Was it Roman 880? Was it Dynamite 780? Oh, the suspense. Oh, the drama. This is the post you’ve been waiting for all your life. Okay, not really. Wallpaper paste isn’t exciting, but I will tell you […]
guest room dresser & mirror
Last week, my mom and I needed a break from hanging wallpaper and installing box molding, so we went to an antique mall (Countryside Antique Mall) and to a local consignment shop (Kismet) to see if we could find a few things on my “wish list” for the room. One thing that was at the […]
wallpapering the guest room | pasted vs. unpasted
I have been looking at wallpaper patterns for a couple of rooms in our house for months, but I haven’t pulled the trigger on any of them for one main reason – almost all of the papers I liked came unpasted. To me, “unpasted” might as well have read “you cannot install this on your […]
wallpapering the guest room | part 1
Thanks so much for all of your encouraging comments on yesterday’s post! I am really looking forward to reworking some of those designs (even just making the scale larger) and getting them available for you (and me) to purchase. Your supportive words have made me even more excited about it. So, if you’ve been following […]
closed doors and open windows
Yesterday afternoon, I received a phone call and I could tell immediately from the tone that bad news was about the be delivered. I had a feeling I already knew what that bad news was, though, so I didn’t feel the need to sit down to steady myself. “We presented your second quilting fabric line […]
carrot white bean soup & croutons
When my shoulder pain was at its worst a few weeks ago, local friends from our church and community stepped in to encourage and support us by giving me rides to my appointments and bringing a few meals. You have no idea (or maybe you do) how amazing it was to have jars of soups […]
tips on selecting wallpaper
As I shared a few weeks ago, I’ll be hanging wallpaper in our guest room (above a chair rail). Well, my mom is visiting this week and we’re taking that on as our big project. Hanging wallpaper in an entire room feels like a bit of a risk for me, but a guest room is […]
how’s your view?
A door frame is not just a door frame. It’s a frame. Whether it’s intended or not, it frames out the view of the room that is beyond the opening. A couple of years into blogging, which involved taking lots of pictures of my home, I started to take notice of this idea. How does a […]