I just HAD to sneak in this post (a Christmas recap) before New Year’s day rolled around. And by the way…happy new year everyone! Colby and I don’t live close to any of our family. Our nearest family members are three hours away (my family) and his family is a solid seven hour drive (to central Vermont). So each year we rotate our holiday travels. And most often, we spend [...]
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Timeliness has never been my thing. Obviously…since I’m bringing you pictures of our “ho ho holiday home” the day after Christmas. It could be worse. It could be July. But alas….decorating our home for Christmas was extra fun this year since many of our spaces (unlike last year) are in a somewhat finished, presentably state. Last Christmas we were still missing lots of major furnishings including walls. Needless to say…I [...]
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Merry Christmas from all of us here at Angie’s Roost (Angie, Colby and Goose too)! We hope you all enjoyed your Christmas celebrations as much as we did and got some extra awesome doses of family this holiday season. I couldn’t help recycling this pic from last Christmas, a recreation from one of our favorite Christmas movies. Any guesses?! I’ll give you a hint…Colby is playing the role of Uncle [...]
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I know this post is WAY late. The dog ate my homework…oldest excuse in the book. By this time of year, you’re probably immersing that turkey in for a good brine-ing and putting those finishing touches on all those Christmas cookies for Santa. But here at The Roost, we’re just putting together our Christmas wreaths and garlands. Doh! Holiday season procrastinators of the world unite! It can’t just be me?! [...]
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One of my FAVORITE Christmas traditions is making “Christmas” mints. What are Christmas mints you say? Glad you asked! While most ladies are slaving away in the kitchen making Christmas cookies, I’m dipping homemade mints in chocolate. And the Christmas mints have a great story…it’s a doozy so here’s the Reader’s Digest version. It’s a family recipe that’s been passed down generation to generation along with an antique doughnut hole [...]
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It’s official, I’m in the Christmas spirit. AND in the Christmas decorating spirit. I have no boundaries as to what I decorate (or glitter-ize). This weekend, I threw together a quick and easy craft project to display our Christmas cards in a festive way. I wasn’t really feeling the card wreath that I made last year and instead opted to make little ornament magnets and post all the cards on [...]
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Warning…I’m about to reveal our first annual “Campbell Family Christmas Card”. So if for some strange reason, if ye friends and family of ours are out there reading this, and you haven’t received our card yet, you may want to avert your eyes and run for the hills. Drum roll please…”Joy To The World” (note the Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation reference)…our Christmas card. You should recognize the photo from our [...]
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For all you Will Ferrel, “Elf” aficionados out there, I regret to inform that I’ve only watched said movie once this year. Believe me…I’m just as disappointed about that as you are. I mean…seriously…I’m not living up to that once a day quota of true Elf fans. But anyway…we’re spreading the Christmas cheer around the roost with a little “Merry Christmas” 3D, cardboard letter sign in the parlor. Which was [...]
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I promise this is the last installment of the “Etsy Gift Guide” series. Next week we’ve got some seriously awesome house projects for you, a couple holiday decorating/crafting ideas, and a big ol’ house master plan/to-do list (teaser…we had one of those epiphany moments the other day that if we buckled down and finished up all those half finished rooms/projects, we could have the house licked come spring…when we could [...]
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I would like to preface this post by stating that no, I do not have kids so I’m not sure I’m mom enough to write this post. But I did just fish a bone out of our dog’s throat so I have had some mom training. My choices for this gift guide are more of a “ooooh…look how cute this is” and “I want that in my size” kind of [...]
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Welcome to Angie's Roost (and Colby's Hen House) where you'll find daily posts about our misadventures in DIY home improvement. We bought a 100+ year old home that desperately needed some love and blogged about our entire adventure.
Work space with industrial style desk
Industrial style desk
Home office with rustic stool
