The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Tufted headboards are pretty popular these days. Do a google or pinterest search, and you will find a ton of blogs about how to make a tufted headboard. As I mentioned (see previous post), I had become inspired to make the Tall Tufted Headboard by West Elm, and with some finagling pulled it off for a […]
Summer is the time of fresh fruits & vegetables, so eat them up to get that Calcium and vitamin C! Why? With the sun and warmth coming back now, we’ll all be soaking up that sunshiney vitamin D. Regularly eating fresh fruits and vegetables with lots of Calcium and vitamin C will help you to […]
Lots of changes have been happening over the past month for us, one of them being that we went from being a one-car family to three! I’m now the proud owner of a first generation manual-speed supercharged Mini (it’s so much fun to drive!)….annnd we also finally took the plunge and got a pickup truck. Quite […]
They say an easy way to change a room’s color scheme is by changing your pillows. As most pillows are $15+ each, that can get expensive awfully fast, and you’re also left with your unwanted pillows that had cost you a pretty penny at one point. This is why slipcovers are your best friend for […]
Recently we went with my bro & sis-in-law to an estate sale and snagged this set of mirrors for $15 (after haggling the price down of course! lol). I recently got them up in the dining room, which makes them the first thing on the walls since we painted the room. For the record, I […]
