Even though it’s not at all how I envision it will be one day, I still really like my mudroom. The one wall is all windows, so it’s nice and bright, and even though it’s pretty utilitarian right now, I seem to be able to make it into something welcoming to walk into pretty easily.  […]

A happy little back to school image! There’s the cheerful yellow school bus that I drew! There’s the lettering that I had Kennedy do after I finished the drawing! Check out my new desk that I’m going to refinish as soon as school starts up again. Isn’t it (going to be) lovely? Wait a second…. […]

Are you in the mood for Back To School yet? I know in some places, the kids have been back for a couple of weeks already, but here we don’t go back until after Labour Day. I’m ready for it! I love this time of year. It’s like a mini New Year celebration and a […]

There’s this big blank space on the wall between the two windows in Kennedy’s room that we’ve been sort of humming and hawing over for awhile. I wanted to do something a little bit eye-catching, but not too crazy and still in keeping with her farm animal/horsey theme in her room. Well, I was pinning […]

OK, so this is actually our side door, but it’s the one everyone uses for now. This is one of those little ideas that makes my friends and family think I’m a little nuts. There are probably many of those. It makes me happy though, and it’s in the name of making our house feel […]

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 […]

…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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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? […]