And by painted piggy I don’t mean of the toe variety, but of the farm animal variety. Put the phone down…stop calling the animal abuse hotline on me…I didn’t paint a real pig…I painted up a pig tray. The tray was gifted to us via Colby’s mama…she…like Uncle Marcus also likes to hand down items … Read more
Last month, we received a little care package from Uncle Marcus (read about it back here) that was FULL of all sorts of (for lack of a better term) old stuff. Both Colby and I loved the package and everything in it, and have recently started incorporating some of the items in our decor, like … Read more
Apparently floor finishing is my thing these days. Like plastic surgery is to Joan Rivers and kid adoption is to Angelina Jolie. We all have our things. My kind of thing these days involves an orbital sander in my hand. But I wasn’t without my reason. While our entry floor is “new” as in we … Read more
In the recent weeks I’ve alluded to this awesome thing that Colby has been building me. Well hold on to your britches boys and girls because the awesome thing is about to be revealed. It’s done, we think (there may be future tweakages as needed), and fully stocked. Drum roll please……….joy to the world…….drum roll……….introducing … Read more
This little project definitely belongs in the “2012…Year of the Nagging Project” category. It’s the wine rack in the dining room. Colby built it for me based off an old Pottery Barn wine rack design way back, we’re talking circa July 2011 (back here). The wine rack has just sat in it’s little corner of … Read more
After a long weekend of ridiculously amounts of polying the hallway floor, I’m super stoked to reveal the finished hallway floor. Well…kind of finished hallway floor. There’s still the heating vent to spray paint and put back in the floor. And then there’s that weirdly, light colored floor section that I want need to sand … Read more
I was really hoping to be able to give you all a big hallway floor refinishing reveal tonight, but alas, I have none such reveal. In the history of floor refinishings, this floor has been the most dastardly. After a solid week’s worth of work this is about how far I’ve come, after a fresh … Read more
Me: I’ll take “Things I Should Have Finished A Year Ago” for 200 Alex. Alex: This step was a critical step missed when the then office and now craft room was renovated. Me: What is poly the trim? Alex: Ding ding ding…we have a winner! I know Alex doesn’t say that but it makes for … Read more
While we’re diligently staining and polying our hallway floor like good little DIYers, let’s share one of our weekend activities. We try to escape the house as much as possible. Is it sad that these two homebodies literally have to tell ourselves to go out more? For instance, this weekend I said, “Self…we have got … Read more
Lately, it’s felt like we’ve fallen off the DIY wagon. It’s been at least a month since I painted anything, our house has been clean…like no dust kind of clean, and it hasn’t stunk like polyurethane. It’s weird. And oddly doesn’t feel like home without those things. But we’re back in the proverbial saddle and … Read more
Hello…my name is Angie…and I’m a pack rat. I try not to be, I really do, but sometimes I just can’t help it. There are just some things worth holding onto. One of my oldest and dearest pack rat-isms is magazine and catalog clippings. I love ’em! You see, I have this little magazine system. … Read more
Here in Maine we have four seasons…kind of…summer is a little short. These seasons include summer, fall, winter, and mud season. Spring here is usually disgusting. While the rest of the country is blooming we’re still fending off snow storms and watching the raging rivers of water flow through our yards. Although this spring was … Read more
The last week or so we’ve had a bunch of epiphany moments. Like Goose is such a good dog when we run him, dust goes away when you actually dust, and yards are muddy…really muddy in the spring in Maine. But the most profound epiphany moment was when we asked ourselves, “why should the most … Read more
As we mentioned WAYYYYYY back here when we were writing up our New Year’s resolutions, we vowed to spend more time outside this summer. Not only do I plan to hammock so hard this summer, but also tackle a few long, does-it-ever-end yardscaping to-do list. And even though the temps dipped down to near freezing … Read more
We are the WORST gardeners ever. Let’s just put that right out there. We forget to water our plants, weeds overtake our veggie gardens, and plants just die. Even our lawn struggles with us around, but that’s another post for another day. Regardless, we plant a veggie garden every year and every year we have … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I nearly accosted the UPS man as he was coming up the walk with this box: That’s the parlor Flor rug that I ordered (from Flor.com) a couple of weeks ago. Remember? From this post way back here? Where we Photoshoped a bunch of different Flor rugs into our parlor … Read more