flash cards

This post from Say Yes to Hoboken reminded me that I hadn’t posted pictures of my redone dining room, specifically this arrangement on top of my sideboard:

I bought the flashcards on etsy a few years ago (from a now defunct shop,) and just framed them a few months ago. Pictures of the rest of the [...]

leak

a current view of my kitchen ceiling:

a week and a half ago a pipe in my neighbor’s kitchen upstairs (I live in a duplex) burst and I had the joyous experience of walking into my kitchen to find water pouring from multiple places in the ceiling. Luckily I know where the main is, and shut [...]

new light

I’ve been tweaking the bedroom lately, as well as other parts of the house, in an effort to make it feel a little more “mine” as opposed to “ours.” I should be finishing up pretty soon and will post pictures, but thought I’d share the new light fixture right now.

Yeah, it’s a little red-light-special (not [...]

shower curtains

One of my next projects in our house is to give the bathroom a mini-facelift – a new storage solution, possibly a new paint job (again!,) and replace our shower curtain with a non-PVC one. Right now we’re leaning towards this:

um, yeah, as seen on HGTV apparently. I like the simple white-on-white pattern, and while [...]

green

the bar cart got a new look today (see previous incarnations here and here):

also, check out that stack of fabric – that’s only part of the stash I picked up from Purl Patchwork when I was in New York. (Yes, I flew in with an empty suitcase.) And no, it’s not all for me, in [...]

janky

The handle broke off our toilet yesterday. While both T. and I are perfectly capable of fixing this ourselves, he’s decided that we should stop fixing things that are the landlord’s/handyman’s responsibility to fix. I agree.

I’m currently taking bets on how long we’ll be living with this “temporary” solution. Also, I can’t wait to see [...]

weeds

So, I came back from New York on Tuesday and went to the doctor, and that cough I’d been fighting for three weeks, that I dealt with in New York by practically chugging Robitussin? Turns out it was pneumonia. Yeah. Which is less of a big deal than it sounds, only because this is [...]

anyone need some mint?

because I have a bush of it (I think this calls for a mojito party):

the sage and oregano have also taken off:

but I think something is wrong with our rosemary – failure to thrive?:

and I’m starting to think that four kinds of thyme may have been too many for one pot:

for reference, old shots of [...]

canisters

I picked up the stainless steel set at an estate sale last fall, so when I spotted the yellow set at the Alameda Flea Market a few weeks ago I had to have them too. Luckily, they only set me back $15. Score.

Hooks for Keys

Today T. put up these hooks for me – they’re on the inside of the door of the front hall closet – to hold all of our “extra” keys (i.e keys that we don’t have on our daily keychains.) No, we’re not janitors, or even building managers, we just have a lot of keys.

Don’t worry, [...]