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Mar 31
What We’ve Been up to This Week
Happy Easter, everyone! This has been one particularly busy week for us. As you're probably aware, we're working on a total home makeover using complimentary Glidden paint. This month's project is our living room, which we are painting red and black. It's looking great already so I'm really looking forward…
Mar 7
Turning 30, Finishing a Decade of Home Renovations & Other Milestones in 2013
Preparing for one of many garage sales in 2004 2013 is a big year for me. January marked my 10th anniversary with Jai; May 2013 will mark the 10th anniversary of my mom suddenly passing away and the unexpected turns my life took as a result of that; and in…
Mar 7
Glidden Home Makeover: Our Finished Attic!
We're on the fourth month of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and on Monday we finished painting our converted attic space. Behold, Jai's new office, painted in Blue Cloud and Cool Cobalt: My dad painted these little birds on the wall for me when I was growing up, since this…
Mar 4
From Typewriters to Twitter: How Quickly Things Change!
Me at age four, ready to write my first novel...I just have to finish learning to read first! I wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember. Even as a child who had just recently learned how to write the alphabet, I wanted to grow up…
Feb 8
Spring is Coming
It's February on the Oregon coast, which means rain, rain, and more rain. But the weather is starting to improve and I can see our first sign that spring is going to be here soon - in the middle of all these barren branches in my back yard, I spotted…
Feb 3
Girls’ Night at The Movies: Keanu, Homemade Face Masques & 4 Pounds of Red Vines! #SharetheSoft #Cbias
I am a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and Kleenex Brand Tissues #CBias #SocialFabric #SharetheSoft When you think of a girls' night in, you might picture a romantic chick flick playing…
Jan 30
Glidden Home Makeover, Month 3: Office
We're on month three of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and this month, we decided to repaint, repair, and convert a "Spare" room into an office. This is the room between my kitchen and bathroom, and due to the many intensive renovations that we've worked on over the years, this…
Jan 1
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution? #NSNation
Do you make New Year's resolutions? Although I have the same goals year-round, I do enjoy the psychological effect of starting a new year on a new foot and getting a chance to reassess my gameplan. For most people who make New Year's resolutions, it seems that "Losing weight/getting in…
Dec 31
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone! However you choose to celebrate tonight, I hope you have a very happy and safe time. Thank you to all of my wonderful readers who have followed this site over the last year - some of you have been reading us since the beginning, and some…