Am I the last person in America not to know about chalkboard spray paint?

The last person in the world?

In the universe?

Are there currently spray painters on Mars using chalkboard spray paint…..creating incredible chalkboard spray paint projects with Martian craft supplies?

And all the time…..I had no idea.Continue reading

Or Facebook?

Or Twitter?

Or you can remember a time when social and media would never even have been used in the same sentence?Continue reading

Random things that used to be outside and then showed up inside because they were (a) free and (b) didn’t cost anything and (c) no charge and (d) priced right.

Seriously.

It’s like enough already.

First there was the stable door  from an abandoned barn that arrived in the family room and turned into the back drop for a fall mantel.

Understandable.

It’s hard to pass up a free stable door.Continue reading

A state that has pumpkins.

And white and black paint.

And vinyl.

Because those are the very best kind of states.

Yep.Continue reading

….I don’t usually go to Marshall’s or TJ Maxx or Home Goods or Target.

Don’t get me wrong…..I love to go shopping there.

I could spend hours just at Target alone….wandering blissfully down the aisles….pushing one of those red carts with a diet coke from the concession stand….sifting through all the clearance bins at the end of the aisle.Continue reading

Doesn’t that seem like such a simple thing?

Nothing earth shattering.

Nothing even remotely unique.

Or inventive.

Or special.

But for me it is.Continue reading

I spent yesterday afternoon discussing fall decorating with the twins.

And why leaves change colors.

And that fall is great because it’s not too hot and not too cold.

And why white pumpkins are amazing.

And why I had an old wheelbarrow on the back porch.Continue reading