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Slip slidin’ away to trash organization heaven
You know how sometimes I publish a little to-do list that shows you what I’m all working on and what’s been finished? I am going to spare you that because reading it would take up FAR too much of your time. I have balls in the air, folks. Lots and lots of them. I feel like I have about 20 ...
Me … in a magazine. Check it out.
I was excited to be featured in the spring issue of Proven Winners free online magazine Proven Beauty. If you want to know a little more about me and see a couple of my picks for my garden must-haves, check out the magazine here or click on the photo above (I’m on page 12-13). Make sure you sign up for ...
A tree that might be worth the chance
I’ve been spending some time doing lots of research on trees, which is an area I’m less familiar with, because we’re about to lose two very special trees. The tree cutters were supposed to come this week but the weather has kept them away. A March snowstorm took out half of this Cedar leaving it angled precariously close to our ...
Weed supression in 15 minutes or less
We’ve had just about two straight weeks of rain here, but I’m not complaining. For one, we need to fill up Lake Michigan which hit its all-time historical low water mark this winter and for another it could be so much worse. North Dakota got so much snow earlier this week that the federal government gave residents of the state ...
Pinterest Puh-lease! Pinterest tips you’ll want to ignore
Isn’t Pinterest just the best? So many ideas! So many pretty pictures! So many great tips! Except, um, when the tips aren’t really tips at all. There are some hilarious blogs that feature Pinterest tips gone wrong and sometimes it’s because people just don’t have the crafting/cooking skill of the person who originally created the tip/recipe/craft to begin with. But ...
Two sure signs of spring
A happy Friday to you all! There is indeed reason to be joyous this Friday. The painters were to come this morning to finish up a few last touch ups on the cabinets which means that I will spend a good part of the weekend organizing what I can while we wait for drawer fronts and cabinet doors. I can’t ...
Don’t count your chickens (or put away your dishes) …
No matter how much we try to keep our expectations in check, no matter how much we learn from experience, there are bound to be bumps in the road in any project of good size. Our kitchen mini renovation has been no exception. As much as we hoped we’d be in a state of kitchen flux for a small amount ...
The ever-expanding garden
I have been debating expanding my vegetable gardening space. Again. It’s funny how gardening works. You start with a garden of a certain size and you can’t imagine ever needing more space. Until you do. And then you add another garden or make the first one bigger and you think, “Well now I’m set for life.” Until you’re not. The ...
A kitchen about face
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet with updates to the progress in the kitchen and I thought I’d show you why there’s been a bit of radio silence. The cabinets were installed over the past week and overall we are thrilled with the storage they are going to provide. But when I looked around I realized that ...
Garden tasks to pass the time
First of all, if you’re finding this blog from Young House Love, welcome! I’m thrilled you popped over to see the blog and I hope you enjoy it. I tend to jump around topic-wise, ranging from renovations (currently we’re working on our kitchen) to gardening to DIY projects. If you like what you see, you might want to consider getting ...
Catching up in a few other gardens
I hate to leave you hanging on garden posts while I’m stuck in kitchen renovation land. Plenty of the country also got a thick blanket of snow recently so I think we’re all a bit fed up with spring’s punctuality problem. It snowed at our house a bit over the weekend too so I didn’t exactly get my garden chores ...
Necessity is the mother of invention
Or: How we got this crazy heavy sink out of the kitchen and onto the deck. I’m writing this Sunday morning. The cabinets are being installed and I’m mostly hiding because I don’t really care for the messy/scary parts. But rather than leave you totally hanging on a kitchen update, I thought I’d share a little item about how to ...
This year’s seed order
Since it seems like so many people are dealing with less-than-stellar spring weather, I’m making a concerted effort not to spend too much time complaining about it. So instead of mentioning that there is still a 5-foot tall pile of snow in my yard, or that I’m behind on pruning things because I can’t get through the snow to actually ...
The beauty of small decisions
With any renovation there are big decisions and little decisions. I find the big decisions to be nerve-wracking exercises in self-doubt. There is nothing like knowing you are spending a lot of money on something that is not easily changed—the layout, counters, etc—to give you a good case of decision paralysis. Because we sort of fast-tracked our mini kitchen renovation ...
Make your own garden mistakes
I was shuffling through Google Reader* this morning checking on all my favorite blogs (the iPad and a cup of coffee in bed are pretty much the best accompaniments to blog reading) and one of my favorite design blogs was talking about gardening. I love when that happens. This great designer (who shall remain nameless) is making a garden for ...
Dear Spring: Where are you?
I think March must be the most challenging month in my neck of the woods. It feels like it should be spring. The stores are filled with pastel everything, magazine covers are fresh and bright and lucky friends who live even a little bit south of here are in the full-on throes of springtime. But it is not spring here. ...
Letters from the Garden
Letters from the Garden
