The very first piece of furniture Chris and I ever bought together was a large, off-white sectional. We walked into the store, saw it, sat on it and decided to buy it--it being the floor model because that's all our still-in-college funds could afford. The sectional was huge, u-shaped, and our apartment was small. We […]
Yesterday marks 5 weeks since we officially moved from our Utah home and thought we closed on it. Some of the details around the demise of that sale we don't feel are appropriate to share here, but we knew it was time to move on and try to sell the house again. We had a […]
You know what I love about roasted vegetables? The fact that you could be talking about anything when you say that. What kind of vegetables? Sweet potatoes? Green beans? Broccoli? Doesn't matter, as long as they're roasted. But perhaps one of the least roasted vegetables of all, is the tomato. So why don't people roast […]
Over the weekend we realized we hadn't done a house tour video of our new home yet. In our last house, we did a new video every 6 months or so and loved watching our home evolve. In that spirit, and in preparations for our first projects (details to come), we thought we better get […]
What a great time of year this is. Especially since we now live in Idaho and I have free-reign of my parents' garden. The last time I took Greta out there to pick tomatoes, I became a little engrossed in what I was doing and failed to notice my daughter had snuck away from my […]
One thing this house isn't shy on is hooks. Perhaps you've gathered that from Instagram: As an update, I found two more sets in the garage. 16!! The slightly humorous thing about this all is that there is absolutely no convenient place to hang our bags when we walk in the house, whether through the […]
Once we packed up all of the art, photos and frames in our last house, I suddenly felt disconnected from it. It no longer felt like our house and now that we're here in this new house, with still blank walls, we are still feeling a sense of disconnect. Art warms a home, at least […]
One of these days I'll have to write a post about the lessons we learned in our first house, because we would do more than one or two things differently. The number one thing that Chris and I both took away was, you can't take even a season off from exterior up-keep. When we moved […]
When I lived in Louisiana, I met a man named Skip. Skip was a young Cajun who made a living catching crawfish out of the bayous and shrimp from the gulf, and selling them roadside out of 2 old coolers. He lived a simple life, spent most of his time alone, and always smiled. And […]
Long story short: Yesterday was not a good day, but we are going to be okay. Long story long: If I were to write this post a few hours earlier, it might have sounded very different. Very angry. Our buyers (who I have since purged the blog of) had another excuse why their money wasn't in […]
As you may have heard, read or gathered--we have had some bumps in our road--mainly we have yet to receive the money for the sale of our house and it all comes down to today. If we don't receive the money today, then we will lose our new house. And if we do, we can […]
Hey! I'm blogging again! Ok enough small talk. Let's do this!Something that Jules has learned about me is that, once I get in my mind that I want to try making a dish, I won't stop thinking about it until I actually make it. So when I stumbled across a tutorial on making gnocchi on […]
Before we focus all of our efforts, and posts really, on the new house that still isn't 100% ours (the whole thing is quite ridiculous--hopefully we'll all have a good laugh about it next week #nervouslaughter), there is one last crowning, whirlwind event that took place at our last house to cover. A photoshoot of […]
All right, so Jules is completely exhausted and asked me to give y'all an update on the sitch over here (that means "situation"). Things were just going a little too smoothly, which I think everyone agrees with. We were supposed to close on our house in Utah last Monday - like, almost two weeks ago. The […]
Update: We chose to keep this post up since it was all part of the learning process, but given the outcome (update 1, update 2), if we could do it all over again, we would get an attorney. Get an attorney, people! Or "Saving the Big Buck$!" The plan was always to try to sell […]
Today we're launching a new series that relates the clothes we wear to the decor in our homes. Most of my wardrobe is casual and classic and that has translated into a lot of the choices we made in our home, or are planning on making. I pinned this photo of Alessandra Ambrosio a year […]
Here's where we left off yesterday: Down these stairs, is another 1700 square feet, and a cute little girl. To the left, there are four doorways, three bedrooms and a bathroom. The room to the immediate left will be the guest room. It doesn't share a wall with all other room and the closet has […]
Whatta day. Whatta month! We're feeling very exhausted--mentally and physically--but are happy to be where we are. Monday we closed on our Utah home and signed it over to its new owners, and yesterday we made the 4.5 hour drive to our new town and moved all of our stuff into our new home, with […]
We moved into our very first home April 2, 2011, and we're moving out officially on Wednesday (although we're loading everything up tonight--different post for a different day). Although we didn't "finish" the house, we thought it would be fun to go back through and look at before and afters of the spaces we did […]
Considering a month ago we were completely unaware of Chris's new job and content with staying in our home indefinitely, this fast move to Idaho has not only thrown us for a loop, but also all of our friends and neighbors. So last weekend, the night after we got home from house hunting, we threw […]
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