Ivy Wars
Forget Star Wars; forget The Hunger Games. I’m engaged in an epic battle with a most insidious foe: English Ivy. We successfully removed it from our side yard a few years ago, but neglected to finish the job properly around the back of the house—and now we’re paying for it. It completely enveloped a yew...
Four Eyes
I have come to the sad realization that I REQUIRE visual help when I’m at the computer. I got my glasses a few years ago during my employment at the “job from Hell”. I was convinced that the stress of the job was making my eyes bad. So after I lost my job, I stopped...
Break On Through: A House 2.0 Update
And the hits just keep on coming. I promised a House 2.0 update and here we have it. Our kitchen passthrough is finally complete! I say finally, because we started working on this bad boy back in November. We all know what happened at the end of November/December, so yeah I never got around to...
Powder Room Additions
In 2009, I wrote this post about some renovations we did to our downstairs powder room. Why is it I’m always talking about bathrooms?! I think it’s because after the kitchen, it’s the second place in a home that sorely shows its age when it’s out of date. While this isn’t a House 2.0 update...
The Closet
Oh hey… Yeah, I’m back! First off, I’m not going to address my 4 month hiatus here. That’s a topic for another post — or not — depending on whether I want to talk about it at all. So yeah… moving on. I’ve had this post idea on my mental list for a long time...
Happy New Year
I am going to really try and make time to Blog more this year. Whether it be a top 5 list or just saying what is going on recently. Happy new year everyone! So far this has been a fantastic year full of lots of fun times and few bad times. Also, it has not...
Be Kind
To say that the month of December sucked is an understatement. The fact of the matter is I still don’t understand how it ended up that way. First the insomnia hit me like a freight train, then the anxiety about not sleeping… it has became a vicious cycle. My Doctor put me on drugs that...
Suddenly Insomnia
It all started a few days ago when Gabriel woke up in the middle of the night as he is sometimes wont to do. After getting him settled, I crawled back in bed only to realize that I was unable to fall back asleep… for the rest of the night. Exhausted, I barely made it...
Resurfaced Stairs
A couple of years ago, I resurfaced the stair risers going up to the second floor with some 1/4″ oak panels. The riser surface was painted white and I couldn’t manage to keep them from getting impossibly marred up with black kick marks. Plus there are knots in the wood that bleed through the paint....
The Master House List
Last night I sat down and typed up a spreadsheet that included each room in our house and a list of all the projects I’d like to do for those rooms. A lot of the projects are of a “someday/maybe” nature, but nevertheless I wanted to write down all the things I’ve had floating around...
Ombre Lamp Shade
Ok, so I took a stab at dying my living room lamp shades and there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, the dip dye didn’t work well for me. I’m not certain why; maybe the fabric on my shades is synthetic and wouldn’t hold the dye or maybe the dye solution was...
Lamp Fetish
I started writing today’s post and realized that I might have a problem. Hi, my name is Vanessa, and I LOVE LAMPS. Ok, now that we have that out of the way, on with the blog post. First, I have to announce the arrival of our dining room lamp. It came from the same place...
