So I found the gold mine of awesome Craigslist furniture last week. I had seen an ad for a quaint little two-seater sofa on the old CL so I made an appointment to check it out. We borrowed Jordan's (aka Uncle Juice) truck and headed on over to East St. Paul. Well what do you know, this craigslist lady has a huge stash of mid-century furniture. Her garage, basement, and main level of her house were READ MORE

Hello Internet, it's been awhile.I thought I'd show you some photos of our new place. It's coming along very slowly because with a 20 month old, part-time grad school for Jeff and 2 full time jobs it can't come along much faster than that. Here's a very quick tour of what we've been up to. And if anyone is interested you can check out what our house looked like before we bought it over at this post READ MORE

Well, we visited our future house last Sunday. It will most likely be the last time we see it until we close in March, so I snapped some quick photos and have decided to share them with the internet, mostly because I am too excited to keep them to myself.A little about our new house: It is going to have it's 100th birthday this year, holy crap that is an old house! I have quickly discovered in our READ MORE

Alright, Alright. I can not take it any longer. Where have I been you may ask? Well here is the answer: I've been out buying this awesome house! That's right, I've been trying too hard to keep it quiet. Two years ago when we were looking for a house everything was always going wrong; appraisals weren't going through, other people's financing was falling apart, I was having a baby, etc, etc. All READ MORE