I’m excited to share the big accomplishment of the season thus far - my updated front porch! Talk about thrifty: with a $13 can of Vintage Coral paint, Paul and I brightened all of our porch furniture and flipped an unused door into a bright vertical planter table. Raiding our Trash Day loot pile, we added a... Continue Reading →
I love when people ask me if my 138-year-young home is “haunted”; this, in fact, is one of the most frequent questions I encounter. Yes. Yes. It. Is. It is happily haunted. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Every house, new or old, contains its own unique energy. It either works for you... Continue Reading →
Me and my trusty glue gun have been all fired up lately, making beautiful new things and mending beautiful old things. Yet. There are things I can not fix with my glue gun. And they trouble me. I cannot fix the ugliness streaming bountifully from the tiny orange man in the big white house in... Continue Reading →
I’m excited to share my thrifty window hardware hacks and the big reveal of my GWtW - inspired parlor curtain project with you today! In the Hobby Lobby clearance section, I picked up these gorgeous antique-y cast-iron cabinet pulls for .99 cents apiece: I decided this would be perfect to hold curtain tie backs. Check out this... Continue Reading →
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie was one of my kids' favorite books - and if you spend any amount of time with little people, you are probably familiar: For those not: a recap. Boy offers Mouse a snack. Mouse quickly spirals and takes over the boy’s life and home, one “tiny” request at... Continue Reading →
An important thing to know about me is that I did not choose our house. Our house chose us. One could say that the Universe is our real estate agent. Said Universe also has quite the sense of humor. My husband Paul and I are city kids. Ours is an outer-borough love story; in our... Continue Reading →
Old, Pretty, and Slightly Broken 