Showing posts with label The Details. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Details. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

DIY Cooking

I love spending Sunday in the kitchen. Today's the perfect day for it, because it's kinda cloudy and blah out there. So time to put ...

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Spring DIY

With snow on the ground but the distinct feel of Spring in the air (or maybe that's wishful thinking), I went around the house, making n...

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Lint Lizard

Coffee in hand, I'm ambitiously planning my day ahead. Maybe ambitious is too strong of a word... Here's my TO DO list so far: 1.  M...

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Replace your Furnace Filter

Hello there! Today I woke up and realized the heat has been on almost non-stop for 3 months. The windows have been opened only  when I burne...

Monday, January 14, 2013

Organized 13 Things!

In keeping with theme of the 13 home goals, I thought I'd make a little note on the 13 things I do manage to keep well organized. Geez -...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Mini-Muffin Tins

Christmas isn't really over! Because we are exchanging presents with Big A's family today!  And with that said, we are going to eat,...

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Kids' Bathroom

I've mentioned how my mind jumps from one thing to another. Today, in true form, I'm jumping from decorating the Christmas tree to d...

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Tools You Need

Having a conversation with Big A is usually very helpful.  But some days, well, not so much. Me:   Which tools could you not live without w...

Monday, December 3, 2012

Decorating the Kitchen (kinda)

Decisions. Decisions. It's the little things, right?  So, can I justify writing a post on dish racks? I have a dishwasher but a lot of t...

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Painting Tips

A while back I posted tips on painting.  (You can read that post here .)  At the end of the post I mentioned that I still have to paint the ...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Creating a Kitchen

As I was puttering in the kitchen last night, putting together a rather large lasagna, and using every surface and pan I could manage to dir...

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Furniture Arrangement

Since we're having our new fireplace/stove installed in a couple of weeks (YAY), I've had to re-think the way my living room is arra...

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Fall friendly advice

Hello!  Just FYI - in general, I don't like being practical, and some would argue that I am NOT very practical, but, nevertheless, it...

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Out with the old...

Since the kids are back in school, and the autumn insists on approaching, I've been grudgingly enthusiastically embracing the need clea...

Saturday, August 18, 2012

One more thing done

After 4 months of talking about it, working on it, generally ignoring it, and not doing it... I've finally DONE IT !!! (And by "I...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Garden phobia

Staying with the garden "theme" that I have going at the moment, I was thinking about why, no matter how hard I try to like it, I ...

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Shoulda Used Mulch

So, as I mentioned in my last post, I kinda dropped the ball, and left my new garden nekkid, while I took off for two weeks.  I came home to...

Thursday, July 26, 2012

A Little To-Do List

We're off on another adventure - camping for 10 days!  Before you go thinking I'm all rugged and stuff, we're not exactly roughi...

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Oh, the pain!

Yesterday was a super busy day.  Laundry, gardening, watering, moving stuff around...  While I moved stuff around , (you know, as you do), I...

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Here's your towel, get out of the dishwasher.

Hello there!  This morning I was thinking about my appliances.  I know, things aren't very exciting in my life right now! When you build...