Archive for the ‘projects’ Category

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

roman mini blinds

As much as I have been avoiding doing too much around this house in hopes that it’ll put us closer to building another house, I finally gave in and decided we needed new window treatments in a few of the rooms around here. The kitchen blinds that were installed who knows how many decades ago [...]

Friday, February 24th, 2012

farmhouse project share

Life moves so fast around here. It’s just not possible that next week will introduce March. Time has floated by so quickly that I almost forgot to share some of the projects that I’ve completed in the past few months. I’ve been feeling inadequate lately about all the projects I have supplies for but never [...]

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

tractor in the forest

We live in the kind of town where everyone knows everyone, dating back several generations. However, when I describe where we live, it seems our house gets missed. It’s not until I mention the original family name that bells ring. Part of the reason our little house gets overlooked is because it sits quite far [...]

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

ugly chair redux

A few months ago I was out searching for a used dresser for Violet because the two dressers the three girls had been sharing just didn’t provide enough room. Unfortunately, finding a used dresser in this town is seemingly impossible, so I ended up getting a new dresser for Violet which now goes in the [...]

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

townsfolk

Now that the weather is taking a turn for the cold (it got down to 2 degrees last night) we have been staying closer to home base. The girls have been wanting to go to the Lanes, the local bowling alley, since we’ve moved here. We finally had a quiet enough weekend to go check [...]