I'm totally tickled that Ohdeedoh.com asked me to participate in a nursery tour for "the new kid's room" aka Gus (guess the cat's out of the bag on that one). It made for good incentive to hurry up and finish the room before our new baby's arrival in a month. I've included a few snippets in this post but you can get the run down on the whole tour including a detailed source list over at ohdeedoh, READ MORE

We're getting there, slowly but surely. The new baby's room is almost done, just a few more items to hang on the walls and a handful of things to sort through and put away and this kid's room will be good to go. One of the new additions to the room is the quilt hanging over the crib. My Grandma helped me assemble this "red cross" style quilt and then she did the hard work, the beautiful top-stitching. READ MORE

I was so excited on Monday when I noticed Finn's room had been featured in an article on Ohdeedoh. I had just posted some photos on Flickr of his room a month-or-so ago after a cleaning day with the intentions of blogging it in the near future, and I guess with a push from Ohdeedoh, the future is now. So here is a quick tour around Finn's big kid digs.First off, Finn's room is pretty large. It is READ MORE

I've been meaning to organize the built-in buffet cabinet in our dining room for some time, it's been set up the same way ever since we moved in, straight from the moving boxes and into the buffet. It's seems like I should've done this a long time ago since it's such a prominent piece in our main living space, but I never gave it too much thought, and I didn't really have any great ideas for what READ MORE