This, my friends, is an idea post. Not an execution post. Not a how-to. And it’s about my giant chalkboard that I made a couple of months ago. My giant chalkboard that I finally got hung up in the kitchen on the blank wall where I needed something cheery. And then I left it there […]

I was still feeling like I needed a little more of a Summer feeling around the house, just to cheer things up a bit, so I moved a few things around in the dining room the other day. Plus my peonies bloomed! So I needed to put them, well, pretty much everywhere. On the table […]

Have you seen the “Deconstructed” line of furniture now available at Restoration Hardware? They are carrying a ton of different styles in this line and they seem to be adding more all the time. I personally haven’t seen anything in this style in anyone’s home yet, but it must be the latest craze if Restoration […]

When I was growing up, my mom used to love shopping at thrift stores, and still does. I, on the other hand, used to not love it so much. Actually I found it an icky and traumatizing experience. Dreaded it. Of course now, it’s kind of part of the blogging deal, right? That’s just something […]

Happy Memorial Day weekend to all my American friends! In Canada, we had our holiday last weekend so it’s now (un)officially Summer here. We’ve been spending soooo much time out in the garden and I wanted to give a little Summer love to the inside of our house too. Just a little bit though. I’m […]

So, what’s been going on in that potentialful front hall of mine that I’ve been working so hard on? Is it done? Is it almost done? You deserve to know. You deserve to have something beautiful and inspiring to look at. You just won’t find it here! Instead I offer you this: It’s in pretty […]

I’ve shown you my living room before now and then. Right in the middle of my living room, you find my trusty Ikea Ektorp sofa, about 8 years old-ish. It’s still comfy. Sometimes it doesn’t look half bad. I’ve even had people ask me how I keep it so white. I don’t! This is our […]

This weekend was the Victoria Day long weekend here in Canada, the unofficial start of Summer.My mother-in-law has a place on the beach only about a 30 minute drive from here so of course that’s where we spent the weekend. And probably most weekends now that the hot weather is here! How could we not […]

Some of you may know that about 3 months ago, I quit my full-time job to stay home, take care of the family, and hold down the fort. Please enjoy these recent photos of things around here while I rant. Staying home is hard. Not because I miss work. Not because I feel lonely or […]

I’ve been seeing all these garden posts around blogland the past couple of weeks so I thought I’d throw ours into the mix as well. We may have bitten off a little more than we can chew with this fairly large vegetable garden we dug up last Fall, but it should at least be an […]