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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…

10 Things I’m Grateful For Today

You might get the impression from this website that I like to be in control. (If you didn’t get that impression… refer back to the two year period of time…

February 13, 2012 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

A Single Girl’s Guide To Country Living & House Features

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…

February 1, 2012 | 16 Comments | Read the Full Article

168 Hours: Small Meals & Finding Time

As a person who collects hobbies the way old ladies collect cats, sometimes I get a little frustrated with the laws of physics regarding time-travel and being in two places…

December 8, 2011 | 10 Comments | Read the Full Article

Homeless

Well the paperwork has been signed, money has changed hands, deeds have been transferred, and for the first time in seven years I am a girl who has a bunch…

November 10, 2011 | 12 Comments | Read the Full Article

Getting Control: The Project List

Taking on a project the size and scope of “building a house” has some interesting side effects. There are the ones you would expect, like the persistent trail of sawdust…

October 26, 2011 | 7 Comments | Read the Full Article

This Changes Things

Since both the computer and I are still fighting our respective viruses– neither of which seems to be improved by the excessive application of Lysol, by the way– I thought…

September 30, 2011 | 66 Comments | Read the Full Article

Little Black Book (of Projects)

Disclaimer: I’m currently infected by some kind of plague, and apparently so is my computer. (These things may be unrelated, or they may be part of a devious plot to…

September 28, 2011 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Five at a Time: The New Project Rule

Hi, my name is Kit. And I’m addicted to starting projects. I don’t know that it’s comfortable to always have a dozen (or two) unfinished projects laying around in my…

September 22, 2011 | 16 Comments | Read the Full Article

One Hundred and Sixty-Eight

Ah, it could be so many things… The number of unique combinations of swear words I can come up with while working twisted up like a pretzel inside of a…

September 7, 2011 | 8 Comments | Read the Full Article

DIYcation Day 1: So This Is What Sane Feels Like

I’m officially counting today as the start of my DIYcation, also known as “getting my shit together again after a really long period of time where I ran around like…

August 22, 2011 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Two. Tiles. Short.

Bloody fingers. Broken tiles. Unfinished bathrooms. These are things you don’t see on HGTV. Sometimes you don’t even see them on websites of real people doing real projects, because by…

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