DIY
Easy "Chalkboard" Basket Labels
DIY
May 13, 2014
Easy "Chalkboard" Basket Labels
A couple of you asked about the chalkboard labels on the extra storage baskets when we showed you Faye's nursery last week. I added the labels to help me identify what's in them (naturally) but also to bring a cohesiveness to the mismatched baskets. Also, the truth is, they aren't chalkboards at all and they […]
May 13, 2014
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Art
Painting of the Week 09 | New Territory
Art
May 9, 2014
Painting of the Week 09 | New Territory
Update: High quality giclee prints, in four different sizes, of this painting are now available here. I did this entire painting with Faye wrapped around me and Greta next to me eating too many sour patch kids and asking a million questions. "Is that a rainbow?" Even though I've done this baby thing once before, […]
May 9, 2014
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Chris Cooks
My Review of the Char-Broil Tru Infrared Gourmet Series - Plus My "Go To" Recipe for Grilled Chicken Thighs
Chris Cooks
May 8, 2014
My Review of the Char-Broil Tru Infrared Gourmet Series - Plus My "Go To" Recipe for Grilled Chicken Thighs
Before we get into it, I want to let everyone know that Char-Broil has NOT paid me to endorse or review their product. This post is all me. Grilling season is here. Finally. For our long-time readers, you know I'm on the grill at least 4 nights a week, Spring through Fall. And when we […]
May 8, 2014
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Decor
Faye's Nursery Reveal!
Decor
May 7, 2014
Faye's Nursery Reveal!
We finally finished the nursery and are excited to share a lot of photos with you today! It's hard to believe we started working on the this room back in December and here we are five months later with a one month old. This room is a great mix of DIY projects (like the huge […]
May 7, 2014
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DIY
The Idaho House: 7 Months In
DIY
May 5, 2014
The Idaho House: 7 Months In
We bought this home in Idaho 7.5 months ago and I still have yet to get our "Idaho House" tour tab filled. So this weekend, I finally buckled down and snapped some in-progress photos of where we are to fill up that tab this week. Every once in awhile I like posting these photos here […]
May 5, 2014
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Decor
A Nursery Update and The Graham Glider Review
Decor
May 1, 2014
A Nursery Update and The Graham Glider Review
The nursery is still progressing at snail speed, but even at that rate we should finish it up this weekend and hope to have lots of pictures for you by the beginning of next week. I am sticking to my goal of hanging one thing a day (lofty, I know!) and this week I've hung […]
May 1, 2014
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Chris Cooks
Santoku VS. Chef's Knife - Sort of Answering Which is "Better" + An Awesome Giveaway
Chris Cooks
April 30, 2014
Santoku VS. Chef's Knife - Sort of Answering Which is "Better" + An Awesome Giveaway
Ok, so the title of this post is misleading. I'm not going to answer the question of "which knife is better," because there really isn't an answer. Even still, I'm asked this question quite often, so I felt like I should address it here. I'll start off by saying, neither one is better than the […]
April 30, 2014
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DIY
DIY Faux Soapstone Countertop
DIY
April 29, 2014
DIY Faux Soapstone Countertop
We're diving head first into updating our current kitchen!! After we recently finished the floors, our cabinets are looking more orange than ever and we left a disposable table cloth on our island in place of a countertop. Eeeks. Although we are planning a full kitchen remodel next year (??), painting our cabinets is an […]
April 29, 2014
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Recipes
Hello, Spring - Strawberry Rhubarb Sodas
Recipes
April 25, 2014
Hello, Spring - Strawberry Rhubarb Sodas
Even though we're only a few hours north of our last home in Utah, Spring tends to take its time making its way to Rexburg. And just when you think it's arrived, boom, snow. Well, we're a little tired of waiting for it to officially to be "Spring" here, so we made it Spring ourselves, […]
April 25, 2014
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Decor
Here Comes The Sun
Decor
April 22, 2014
Here Comes The Sun
In case you missed our last post, or the dozens of recent instagrams of #sweetbabyfaye, I've been in newborn la-la-land for the past 2 weeks. All the days run together now and dust has been collecting on my laptop. I've opened it twice in the past two weeks. The first time I had all intentions […]
April 22, 2014
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Lifestyle
Our Little Faye is Here!
Lifestyle
April 9, 2014
Our Little Faye is Here!
A week early and a little unprepared (my water broke in the middle of the night!), Monday we became a family of four. Chris and I rushed around the house at 3am showering, packing a hospital bag, and making arrangements for his mom to come stay with Greta. We made it to the hospital […]
April 9, 2014
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DIY
Installing Baseboards in the Nursery
DIY
April 7, 2014
Installing Baseboards in the Nursery
Are we behind on the nursery? Ha! With Greta, we had her nursery ready with 2 months to spare. We're down to a week over here and we still haven't put the crib back together since moving our furniture back up last week. We're buckling down this week to get it done hopefully before she arrives. First on […]
April 7, 2014
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Decor
Big, New, and Blue in the Living Room
Decor
April 3, 2014
Big, New, and Blue in the Living Room
Earlier this week, the new area rug for our living room arrived. You can read more about our decision making process here, but ultimately we went with the 10x14 Baxter area rug from Crate and Barrel in Indigo. And, whew, it has made a really big difference. Here's how things were looking right before we […]
April 3, 2014
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DIY
Reconfiguring the Kitchen
DIY
April 2, 2014
Reconfiguring the Kitchen
Prior to tackling the floors, our kitchen extended into the dining area. It was always a little puzzling to us why the pantry was in the dining "room" when there was a blank wall in the kitchen. The only answer we could come up with was that 20+ years ago the builder accidentally made the […]
April 2, 2014
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DIY
Removing Grout Haze the Easy Way
DIY
April 1, 2014
Removing Grout Haze the Easy Way
Although we showed you the "finished" floors in yesterday's post, there is one part of the process that we haven't covered--grout! In my post about Tips for Achieving Realistic Faux Wood Tile, I mentioned that "opting for a grout color a shade darker than our tile will keep things looking more natural." Our grout lines were the […]
April 1, 2014
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DIY
Faux Wood Tile: The After Photos!
DIY
March 31, 2014
Faux Wood Tile: The After Photos!
We're so excited to share with you our finished floors today! Replacing almost all of the flooring on our main floor (we opted out of doing our master bath since we'll be tackling a full renovation in there next year) was daunting beforehand, a lot of work during, but now we're on the other side […]
March 31, 2014
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Toolbox
Tools For Making Tiling More Bearable
Toolbox
March 28, 2014
Tools For Making Tiling More Bearable
Chris and I just keep looking at each other in disbelief. The floors are done and it is unbelievable!! It has been an incredibly long 6 weeks. While we are so happy we were able to save the thousands of dollars on installation doing it ourselves (we were originally quoted 17K, but since we decided […]
March 28, 2014
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Decor
Measuring For A New Area Rug
Decor
March 25, 2014
Measuring For A New Area Rug
If you caught yesterday's post, you already know we're wrapping up the floors this week and moving all of our furniture back upstairs on Saturday and we can barely wait! The floors are looking beautiful and are a great launching pad for a lot of the other improvements we want to make in the house […]
March 25, 2014
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DIY
Slow and Steady Lays the Tile
DIY
March 24, 2014
Slow and Steady Lays the Tile
Y'all wanna know what I've been working on lately? Shhh... it's a secret... Psyche. Not a secret. Everyone knows. Floors. Floors, floors, and more floors. As you can see from the above photo, Saturday we made serious progress in the great room. But, here's how my daily schedule breaks down: 7am: Wake up, get ready […]
March 24, 2014
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Art
Painting of the Week | 08 April Showers
Art
March 20, 2014
Painting of the Week | 08 April Showers
I know it is still March, but it's the first day of Spring and I am exhaling all the winter heaviness. This painting is inspired by our grass that is still sleeping and mostly brown, but all the snow has melted. And those rain showers we have been getting instead of snow! And those flowers […]
March 20, 2014
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