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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 | 12 Comments | Read the Full Article

A Different Kind of DIY

That silence you hear is the sound of me blinking forty-seven times at the prospect of DIY that doesn’t involve power tools and sawdust. My brain has a hard time…

January 4, 2012 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

Sawdust: Like Crazy, But Smells Better

There is so much crazy in the air right now, I can hardly see twelve inches in front of me. Oh wait. Maybe that’s sawdust. Either way, I might have…

November 14, 2011 | 5 Comments | Read the Full Article

Weekend Work

It’s not going to be too long before outdoor work is going to require three layers of long-underwear and my awesome (yet gender neutralizing) Carhartt bibs. So that’s something to…

October 24, 2011 | 4 Comments | Read the Full Article

Updates, Freebies, Backups, and Good Advice

No kidding, in the last 48 hours I’ve cleaned almost 90,000 infected files off of my computer, which is still not working. Ninety thousand. Needless to say, I haven’t been…

October 3, 2011 | 2 Comments | Read the Full Article

In, Out, Up, Down

This weekend was all over the place in a glorious mixture of projects that involved tomatoes, a toilet, the kitchen, and a thousand-pound armoire. Right? Craziness. My favorite state of…

September 12, 2011 | 11 Comments | Read the Full Article

5 Ways To Get Out of the 168 Hour Funk

Judging by the title of this post I feel like I should be writing about something that occurs in long-forgotten gym bags, but you can unplug your nose because my…

September 8, 2011 | 6 Comments | Read the Full Article

It’s Funny Because It’s True

A few weeks ago I mentioned that 3M recently launched a Couple Speak contest where you can submit a video (for a chance at a $5000 prize) or submit a…

September 5, 2011 | 7 Comments | Read the Full Article

Some Things Trump DIY, Harry Potter Is One Of Them

If you’re wondering where the heck I am, the answer is watching Harry Potter, duh.  My good friend E and I– pictured above recreating a wand fight with sparklers and…

Like Construction, But Virtual

It doesn’t matter if you’re using lumber and drywall, or PHP and CSS… when you’re renovating something it involves a lot of decisions, some moments of panic, and a good…

No Such Thing As Too Prepared (for storms or aliens)

I snapped this picture out of our front door last weekend, just minutes before an electric pole was knocked down across our street—bringing down with it our ability to turn…

Move In Progress: Not Tomorrow

You may remember that twelve weeks ago, we set a move-in date for March. Tomorrow is the last day of March, and yet the tub still resides in my bedroom…

March 30, 2011 | 8 Comments | Read the Full Article

When Disaster Strikes: A Rebuilding Guide

Last weekend I got a call from my cousin. “There’s been a fire.” As someone who once walked into her house to find a waterfall flowing from the second floor…

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