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Hammers, Blood & Magic (so just a normal weekend, then)

This weekend was such an epic two days of progress and disasters that I don’t know if I can quite find the words to describe it. If I was going…

Permission To Paint a House (But Not How You Think)

Here’s a conversation I’ve been having with myself for the last two weeks: Project ADD Me: Oh! I have a great idea for a painting I’d like to do for…

Small Wins

Since it is taking hours upon hours to paint all of the wainscoting in the Not-Pink Parlor and I needed to be able to check a couple of things off…

Things That Wouldn’t Get Built Without My Mom: Fences, Pergolas, Houses

There are a lot of times when I start a big project on my own and then at some point–usually when I find myself wedged between a large piece of…

The Month of May

I know that all of you think I took one look at that bigass list I wrote, fell out of my chair, and have by lying on the kitchen floor…

Liberty House: The Master List

While I’m only making incremental progress (read: just barely keeping things from falling apart) on the Liberty House, I dream of a day when I’ll be checking things off my…

Magic Plan App: Floor Plans Without Measuring Tapes (aka The Coolest Thing Your Phone Can Do)

I’m trying really hard right now to write this posts without using excessive exclamation points. It’s a struggle because one of my coworkers recently sent me what I’m pretty sure…

My Christmas Tree Is Currently In My Kitchen (and other things you can judge me for)

First of all, totally unrelated to the topic of this post but as a follow-up to my last one, guess who successfully mowed all two acres of her lawn today…

April 30, 2012 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Taming The Jungle (Or the Back Field)

You know that phrase generally used after eating three pounds of pumpkin ravioli with a handful of buttered rolls and then washing it down with half of an apple pie…

A Little Bit of Progress

You know how sometimes you go to blogs or turn on the TV and you see a gorgeous and completely finished before and after? Yeah. That’s not what this is….

Liberty House: Getting To Know You

I’ve been living at the Liberty House for almost a month now, and like newlyweds just back from a honeymoon all of the rainbows and roses have started fading from…

Plumbing 101: Replacing Delta Jetted Shower Trim

Hey, what’s it called again when you buy a bigass house with three full bathrooms and none of them contain a working shower? Oh, right. Irony. That was the story…

April 17, 2012 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Burn Baby, Burn

If anyone ever wanted to do a social experiment on “habit beyond all reason” the first place they should start is my kitchen. At the Memorial House I got into…

April 16, 2012 | 8 Comments | Read the Full Article
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