dining room progess

This isn’t the best picture, but I had to get that one of me off the top of the page. The painting is almost done in here, and my to do list is currently looking like this: buy this bookshelf (in white) for office supply storage move and set up the bar cart figure out [...]

rehabbed dining chairs

check them out, along with a step by step guide, over at AT:SF

projects

Here is our front hall closet half way through being cleaned out. Um, yeah. It had been a while. Also, before it decided to rain today, I’ve been working on my dining room set rehab project, part of AT/Blueprint’s January Jumpstart: Updates soon on both of these projects, as well as the many other things [...]

the power of paper

Some of you may remember my longish-but-ultimately-successful bar cart hunt this past winter, followed by the bar’s makeover with wrapping paper. I’ve been tired of the very early-springish pussy willow paper that’s been in there for a while, and yesterday finally replaced it with this preppy blue striped piece. Because the paper simply lays under [...]

tea

The high-tea baby shower I threw on Sunday went really well, if I do say so myself. Click here to see more pictures.

pennants

The baby shower I’m throwing for my childhood best friend is starting in two hours, and I am amazingly almost done with all preparations. This never happens – I’m usually throwing stuff in closets while going to answer the door. Here’s a peek of the decorations I’ve been working on this week, I’ll post more [...]

abandon

Last night while in the midst of cleaning the house I suddenly got an urge climb up on the kitchen counter and do this: This is how projects usually get done in our house – a spur of the moment breaking out of the paint cans. In the next week T. and I will be [...]

like 24 knives

I made this embroidery piece for T. sometime during the first year we were dating. I finally got around to re-framing it yesterday, now it lives on top of the built-ins under the window in the living room.

sofa

Yesterday we got our couch cleaned.* It’s much cleaner now, but still stained – we bought used it two years ago from a family with two small children. It’s not the most beautiful sofa in the world, but it is the most comfortable, and when you combine that with the fact that new sofas are [...]

woot!

it looks like gocco has been saved.