Summer is near. Yesterday, is what will be known as the great milkshake debacle of 2013. We were celebrating award day at Aiden’s school, by stopping by Sonic on the way home. I decided to get all three kids small chocolate milkshakes with whipped cream. Only when I rolled up to the window, the lady…
new eyes
Be present every day via I decided to take the leap, and had Lasik surgery on March the 8th. I’d wanted this procedure for about five years now. I dreamed of being able to see. There must be nothing better in the entire world than to wake up and just see, I thought to myself. This was the self-proclaimed…
slipcover 101
I wanted to start off today thanking you all for your kind comments/emails on our living room post. Sometimes, it can be a bit intimidating, when no one else has seen it, and then I’m all, ta-please-say-sweet-lemonade-da for people to look at. This room has been a real process, and it was fun to hear from…
the living room
Subtitle: having the patience and nerves of steel to wait for what you want. Sub-subtitle: the longest post ever in the history of The Handmade Home and all of the blogging web-o-verse. So, one of our most tedious rooms ever, in-process, is this little gem of our main living area. It was a bit of…
musings of an impatient craigslist peruser
Subtitle: Why craigslist is a lot like false labor. And dating. Recently, I had a meltdown post on Facebook that looked a lot like this: …And by meltdown post I mean, not scary meltdown, so much as self admitted awkwardness. But moving along, there was a pretty large response out there from you guys…a resonating “I…