So I started a new project, I know I am crazy, but this nesting bug has got the best of me. In a fit of "I can't stand it anymore" I spontaneously grabbed a gallon of Aqua Pura paint last week on my way through the home depot as an attempt to commit myself to my next project; spiffing up the porch before the new baby comes. I can say without a doubt that the porch is the heart of our home in the summertime. READ MORE

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

The next item on my list of a million things to get done before the baby gets here is to organize the "mud room" off of the back kitchen entry way. We've been pretty much using this area of the house {before picture} as a drop everything space, and as a room to store all our empty beer bottles (at least Jeff has as of recently.) In our old place we had a chalk board wall, and I had been missing having 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