If these plans look a little rumpled it’s definitely not because I’ve been sleeping snuggled up to them for the last week. I swear. I actually hauled my old dining…

Here’s how I kicked off the week. I already had a jump-start on feeling awesome with the successful Moonshine Lamp project that I knocked out over the weekend and I…

When I decided to rent an old farm house with a bunch of falling down buildings on the property there was a general debate going on in my family about…

If all goes well– and, as someone who almost just lost the tip of a finger to a kitchen utensil (the irony of that is not lost on me, by…

I actually feel like I should start out this post by apologizing for the pictures it contains. Actually, if you’ve eaten recently, or are thinking about eating in the next,…

Honestly, if I were a better person, I would be picking up the random piles of laundry strewn about the house instead of trying to take pictures of myself lifting…

First of all, I am admittedly not a chicken expert (yet) but I’m pretty sure this isn’t actually a “coop”. It’s probably more of a chicken-packing-crate or something, but that…

I really feel like this one should be called “the little girl who heaved a table onto her back, ran across two lanes of traffic and a parking lot, and…

Whereas the bedroom at Memorial was warm, spacious and inviting (or I like to think it was), the bedroom in the rental is a little bit… less. I gave it…

It’s been a little over a month since I fell in love with shared the first version of the future Hillside Cottage floor plans. Here’s how the process has gone…

Just so we’re clear from the start, the “beautiful” part of 2011 was definitely how the Memorial House turned out, and, well, I think “disaster” is the only accurate way…

It’s safe to say that after all the pretty packages under the tree have been unwrapped, there are always a few more toys for me to play with in the…

Here’s an idea: Spend two days eating sugar-laden Christmas treats, then take all that extra energy, put it in a car, and drive around in circles (on dirt roads) for…