Not too long ago (at all), we DIYed and upholstered a pelmet in the cutest little cub print fabric. I think it was described as "cheeky" among a reader or two. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier this week--there was an accident or rather an error on our novice upholsterers part? Thankfully the pelmet itself is […]
2013 already feels different. There have been so many changes, yet Chris and I are both itching for some excitement. Greta isn't napping anymore and really, my world--our world, has been turned upside down. I feel significantly more tired from those extra two hours of non-stop playing that when Chris gets home, the only thing […]
First things first. Greta's cub print pelmet box had a little accident and we are still deciding what to make of the situation. So, until we get that figured out (more details before the week's up!) forgive me for not posting full room shots, or at least full window shots. This disclaimer is especially important […]
Last August (mmm summertime), we got our hands on a second-hand bench that we cleaned up and stained and it became the hopeful home to four potted plants. Today, one remains--wah wahhhh-- and we moved it to a new home in the kitchen on the upper open shelf. It looks like it is on its […]
This weekend, we finally FINALLY decided on a grasscloth for Greta's room and got it ordered (woot!). We realized it was so tough deciding because we were trying to coordinate all of these natural, warm-toned grasscloths with gray paint. Which is doable, I'm sure, but it was making my eyes crazy! The grasscloth samples were […]
A year ago, we blogged about 10 projects that you could look forward to happening in 2012--and today we are here to report back and grade ourselves and laugh at what we thought we would get done, but also celebrate what we did--with a focus on the celebrating, because that is what this is all […]
A big part of our blog redesign, that many of you already commented on, was getting a new photo taken of us for our sidebar and about us page. When I am reading a blog, I really like knowing whom I am reading about. I need a visual. Are you the same? Fortunately, my sister […]
We spent a portion of our new year's day doing something we have been itching to cross off our list. Hint. Big hint: We moved Greta's vintage twin bed from storage to her room and moved her crib-turned-toddler bed out. New Year. New bed. No more binky? One thing at a time! But let me […]
We kicked off 2012 with a new blog look: And not that we want to make it an annual thing--we really, really don't--but we just weren't feeling all the pillows against the purple wall anymore--in our house or as our header. So, we just overhauled the whole thing. Sounds just like us, right? We bought […]
And now, this year's Christmas card: While we wanted the front to be clear of any text to highlight the art (more on that in a minute), Chris wrote a little blurb for the back as a short kind-of-summary of our year. And in case you can't squint your eyes and read the above, but […]
After we decided pelmets were for us, or at least Greta's window, we got right to work and busted it out in forty minutes---and then it took me about an hour to upholster it, and two days to find time when Greta wasn't occupying her room to hang it and another day for me to […]
Ahhh, Christmas. Don't you love this time of year? No matter what you do, simply follow it up with "It's the Holidays!" and people give you a pass. Did you eat an entire pumpkin pie by yourself in one sitting? It's the Holidays! Did you max out your $15K limit credit card? It's the Holidays? […]
We are plugging along in Greta's room. Because there are so many elements going into it--we really are stripping the room of almost everything--it is taking a lot longer than we had hoped. And then there's the fact that Greta-the-Great sleeps in there every night, which is when we tend to get the brunt of […]
This time of year is the best for mail. I did nearly all of my Christmas shopping online, so between the packages arriving daily and the real gems, receiving holiday cards from our friends and family, every day feels like Christmas! We haven't shipped out our cards yet--that's my goal this weekend!--but the cards have […]
1. Moroccan Oil. This is actually on my hair's wish list. But tomato, tomahto. $23.99 2. Eyelash extensions for your sister, mom, aunt, bff, and/or yourself). I just got them for the first time and I feel ready when I wake up in the morning (!!) for all the Christmas and New Year's parties on […]
Clearly I am just winging it around here because sometimes working in things like pelmet boxes to Greta's new room first requires me to Google "pelmet boxes." I am not an interior designer, but I know what I like. And when I came across this picture (found here) I said, "I want those!" For a […]
The first weekend of December (before Greta got sick and massive amounts of snow fell), we stepped away from the painting and Christmas-decking and went car shopping. Like, alllll weekend. Normally, I would say such an event doesn't exactly fit into the DIY/Home Design thing we got going on here, but some time ago, even […]
Thanks for excusing me for a few days while I gave my full attention to our little sicky. Truthfully, Greta is still sick with a bad and everlasting case of croup. I think we are on day 5 or 6 now, and it is just as heart-breaking today as it was the first day and […]
Truth be told, there was a time that I really loved the color we chose to paint Greta's room (which is...er was Behr's Corn Husk Green). It felt fresh compared to the dingy walls we started with and since this was the very first room we painted in our very first house, I am not […]
After including a bed for Greta in her big-girl-room mood board that we found in the online classifieds, we were really holding our breaths that we would get it. We called and called and left messages with the seller with no response. At this point, we thought that we had definitely jumped the gun by […]
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