Christmas Decorating for the Overwhelmed

Gretchen — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:51:00 +0000

I just went back and looked through a couple of old posts from back in the days when I did full-fledged Christmas house tour blog hops, and…this isn’t a post like that. But it is a post about Christmas decorations! The nice thing about having done all those tours for all those years is that I now have a pretty … Continue reading →

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Foster Kittens for Christmas

Gretchen — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:12:09 +0000

I can’t think of a better way to finally update the blog than with pictures of the most adorable kittens in the world! (I went to a blogging conference once where someone said that if you stop blogging for awhile and come back, you shouldn’t say anything about it. But I guess we can already tell from the fact that I haven’t blogged … Continue reading →

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A Bright, Colorful Sunroom Makeover (also user friendly. and with legos)

Gretchen — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:30:44 +0000

One upside to waiting a few months to show you our finished(ish) sunroom makeover is that I can tell you how we’re liking it after living with it for a bit…which is a lot. Here it is now! The sunroom has been, alternately, a great hang out space for us and a big PITA to deal with. It’s slightly awkwardly … Continue reading →

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Ari’s Not-themed College Kid Bedroom Makeover

Gretchen — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:39:13 +0000

When we were working on this room–for a very long time–Ari and I had a running joke where he insisted it needed a theme, like Abe’s National Parks room. “Are we ever going to finish my baseball-Star Wars-math room?” he’d ask. There is not actually a theme. And we took so long to finish that it’s sort of not even … Continue reading →

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Sunroom Plans: More Color? More Modern? More Chairs?

Gretchen — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:32:55 +0000

Oh, sunroom. You are kind of cool, but also a lot of trouble. When people see our house for the first time, they almost always say something about how much they like the sunroom, and my response is almost always, “yeah, just don’t look too close.” The sunroom is on the back of the house; both the kitchen and the … Continue reading →

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Decorating our New Travel Trailer: In Which I Dabble in Modern Farmhouse and Pink

Gretchen — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:18:30 +0000

The new travel trailer is not actually all that new anymore; we bought it back in April of 2021, but I am just now getting around to posting about it. I would pretend that this is because it took me so long to get the decor just so, but, really, as you’ll see, it came to us relatively fully formed and … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Gretchen — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:39:37 +0000

Hey, there was another Christmas! I never got around to doing a full house tour, even though I took some pictures. So here are a couple of the pictures: As you can see, my greatest seasonal accomplishment was securing the world’s fattest Christmas tree for the bay window in the den. When we were at the nursery picking it out, … Continue reading →

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Christmas Village Countdown/Advent Calendar and a Forest of Target Trees

Gretchen — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:16:33 +0000

Just a few days ago I was dragging my feet about Christmas decorating and not feeling the least bit excited about it. But I forced myself to take down the Halloween stuff from the foyer dresser, and that helped a little. Then I thought, “maybe something…woodlandy?” to myself, and I started to get a wee bit excited. And then I … Continue reading →

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Installing Track Shelving (Brass!)

Gretchen — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:18:27 +0000

I was this close to just buying regular old black track shelving hardware at Home Depot or wherever for Ari’s room. But at the last minute I looked around online for more exciting options, and I’m really glad I did. This brass is taking the sting out of the copper-hardwared dresser not working out the way I’d planned. The brass! I love … Continue reading →

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Dresser Disappointment and Choosing a Chest.

Gretchen — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:19:42 +0000

This post is kind of sad. Probably more for me than for you. I had a wonderful vision for the dresser for Ari’s room. It involved copper pulls and Target, so what could go wrong? I thought. Many things, it turned out. So many things that I did not even bother to take pictures with the real camera. Cruddy iphone … Continue reading →

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