Once upon a time I had a fern and I didn’t kill it. Once upon this time, actually. It’s pretty flabbergastingly great really because, you see, I love ferns. I really do. They’re so fresh and verdant and classy and stuff. Up until now, I’ve killed everyone that I’ve owned. Quickly, and efficiently. Somehow following […]
Potential, sweet potential…
…is something that we’re up to our elbows in around here. Finished projects? Big reveals? Potential fulfilled? Uh… erm… um… not so much. But the potential is plentiful, and it is sweet. We were given these white Adirondack chairs (Muskoka chairs, if you ask Chris) recently. Given them. Just ’cause. For our fire pit, which we were […]
Chris totally ruined my blog post.
You know what we’re like really really good at around here? Half-finished projects. Seriously, I’m pretty much the master of half-done, if I do say so myself. Chris isn’t too bad either, except this time, he screwed up. I had a post all lined up about how we’ve had these half-built stairs leading up to […]
An anniversary and a side helping of ignorance.
So you’re going to think I’m a special kind of ignorant after this. Ready? Let’s do this. Does the United States have boxing day? Is it like what we have here in Canada? I realize that I live oh, maybe 20 minutes from the American border and I should know this. But I don’t. Well, […]
Might as well paint that too…
So while I had my paintbrush out and filled with beautiful white glossy paint, I thought it couldn’t hurt to slap a little extra on our sad and shabby looking light switch in the front hall, you know, just to clean it up for now. Why not just throw a new switch plate up there? […]
Balance is not a Show-Off
Me and Balance, we’re best buddies lately. We hang out daily and I tell her all my goals and hopes and dreams. She helps me work towards them and maybe even reach some of them. Only, slowly. Like, really slowly. I’m not a patient person. I like instant-gratification. I like right-now. And I like attention, […]
A Perfect Moment
Thursday, 8:17 a.m. I’m never that type of person who can get a good photo of a bird. No patience. But there he was, sitting on the little pine tree right outside my window, framed by the kitchen door window, the wreath, and the mudroom window, with that lovely cornfield in the background. Do you […]
My chair is unsittably pillowed
You may remember seeing my living room before around here from time to time. Welcome Back! Today my living room is the scene of a bit of an oddity, the unsittably pillowed chair! I’m sure many of you reading today have a pillow problem as well. It’s not that I necessarily buy or make too […]
In a bit of a sticky situation with these floors
The front hall project continues! I’ve been trying to tackle the floors a little at a time, but only when Kennedy’s out of the house, because of the toxic adhesive remover and all that. The problem is, the adhesive remover actually smells really good, all citrusy and clean, so you kinda want to smell it. […]
How to Age Brass
Do you have any of those shiny yellow-brass circa 1993 doorknobs around your house? We have a whole assortment of different eras represented on different doors around here, but the one in my front hall was the lame-o shiny kind. But I fixed it up good. Yes I did. Originally I had thought about maybe […]
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