Remodeling a Vintage Farmhouse in the Middle of the Country
Yesterday I was on a phone interview with the most incredible editor of a home decor magazine.
(total aside…..seriously….I have always wanted to drop that casually in a conversation)
And she asked me a question that I had never thought of.
About you.
The wonderful, incredible, funny, highly intelligent, creative person who reads this blog.
(total aside number 2…..I described you exactly like that)
She asked me if everyone who read the blog liked farmhouse style.Continue reading
I wish you lived down the road.
I know I’ve said this before.
But it’s true.
I wish you lived in the white house with the picket fence and the roses and day lilies and the herd of goats in the front yard that are always escaping.
Okay…..maybe just the picket fence without the goats.
And when you stopped by the house to see the roses and drink sweet tea on the back porch and listen to me tell you all about how I made the monogrammed mason jars and listen to my sad tale of woe about how “nobody” broke one of the moss-covered urns last weekend…..
….you would bring a pie.Continue reading
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
