Remodeling a Vintage Farmhouse in the Middle of the Country
Happy Saturday!
I missed you yesterday. 
We were painting and cleaning and patching and taping and sweeping over at the gatehouse.
And I loved every minute of it.
I can’t wait to show you everything….but in the meantime…..
…..here’s 5 diy furniture projects for the weekend.
Happy day to you!Continue reading
This is where all the stinky socks in our house live.
Along with mud tracks and basketball shoes and drum sets and algebra books and track uniforms.
And plenty of testosterone.
*sigh*
It’s a whole other world.Continue reading
I can’t help it.
I know you’re here to learn about how to to build a fold-up pallet desk.
After all….that’s what the title says….
….and it is an amazing project that you can build in an afternoon (and you don’t even have to take the pallet apart).
But I need to interrupt this regularly scheduled post…..
…..for this.Continue reading
The Gatehouse
Dear lonely, over-looked little house at the end of the driveway,
Welcome to the family.
I just wanted you to know how much I have always adored you.
I’ve driven by you for years. Every time I turned into the driveway……there you sat.
Patiently waiting.Continue reading
A long time ago in a land far, far away….I wrote a post and took a picture of a farmhouse bedroom.
You can click here to see it.
I thought it was the most amazing picture I had ever seen.
I had just gotten my camera and I was so all about myself and my mad photo-taking skills.
Seriously.
I can remember staring at the picture and telling myself what a rock star I was.
I showed it to my mom and my best friend and the book club…..
…..and even pulled it up on my cell phone for a few random people at Wal-Mart.Continue reading
I think I finally figured it out.
The whole baking thing.
Before….in the macaroni and cheese kitchen….nothing I baked ever turned out.
My cookies would run off the baking stone or be solid as a rock and my cake would get done around the edges and be raw in the middle and my pies sometimes sunk like the top of a volcano.
Once….at a party….my brownies were so hard that when I tried to cut them…..the whole brownie sheet flew across the room and landed on the floor.
But the answer to becoming a better baker was there all along…..staring me in the face.
All I had to do…..Continue reading
The other day we had a yard sale.
We sold a claw foot bathtub and an old trunk and a Ho Ho Ho pillow and two chairs missing spindles and a bunch of old trophies and a yellow train track set and box full of cassette tapes.
High dollar stuff.
Aren’t you sad you missed it?
And during the frenzy of shopping activity…..
……my mother told everyone about my blog.Continue reading
I spent part of last week figuring out how to paint a dresser with numbers.
It’s been on my to-do list ever since last fourth of July when I first painted it gray and distressed it and put it in the upstairs playroom.
It never really looked right.
It looked….well….it looked….gray.
Gray with red numbers is so much better.Continue reading
