Twenty Hobbies
Recently I ran across something that made me feel better about dabbling in so many different distractions without becoming an actual expert in any of them. Turns out this pattern fits my job...
View ArticleMoving house
It has been exactly one month since I posted last, but given all I’ve been up to, I suppose I shouldn’t be suprised. The big move happened across the state, and I no longer live close enough to the...
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spilled milk, missionaries, and a map
A full cup of milk is tipped by a three-year-old elbow, forming a small river which seeps into the joints of the table’s ancient wood. I huff and grab another towel, then kneel to reach the puddle...
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The Benefits of Working with an Online Designer
Now that I’m done working on my third room with Darlene from Fieldstone Hill, I thought I’d let y’all know how glad I am I decided to go this route—working with an online designer, and Darlene...
View ArticleAt the Dawn of a New Year
I used to hate January. It was bare and void of twinkling lights, a month still dark. Winter without Christmas, like a pre-Aslan Narnia. At some point, however, I realized the newness of a year and the...
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To Redeem The Time
When I first left my 80-hour-a-week job at the hospital, our house contained piles everywhere. Paper piles, clothing piles, dishes and disorganization in every room. I knew how to run a medicine...
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A Tidy Desk and A Clean Slate
Sometimes, all one needs to clean the slate, to turn a new leaf or next page, is simply a tidy desk free of distraction. My writing has taken second fiddle the last few weeks as I’ve been sequentially...
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TV Lift cabinet redo: Before and After
We are nearing the end of our first year in a new house, and getting everything in order and decorated has been great fun. I love bringing together beautiful fabrics, textures, patterns into a space,...
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The hard-working kitchen, finally complete
Once we closed on our new house, the first thing we did was have the kitchen demolished to the studs. The layout was just not ideal. A huge wet-bar dominated a lot of space, and all the cabinets were...
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DIY Trunk Table (without drilling into or damaging the trunks!)
So I needed a console behind my couch. A place to kind of set off an entry area behind the living room part of our Great Room, just after you open the door. I love the colors and bold patterns we went...
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The Gilded Lady {a diy}
This bust has traveled with my for quite a while, but was orignially a dark brown color. I sculpted her in a college art class. {My majors were totally different–molecular biology and philosophy–but...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned in June
June arrived not in her usual sweltering way for our area, but with cool mornings and tolerable afternoons. It shocked all of us really, the kindness of this June in South Carolina. Here are a...
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The Great Nesting List of 2013
Cypress Swamp, Magnolia Gardens, SC (nothing to do with my post, just pretty) I mentioned in my previous post that I think Extreme Nesting Syndrome should be listed in the new DSM-V. It’s a fact well...
View ArticleUpdate on the Great Nesting List of 2013
Y’all. I have to say I’ve made major progress this past week on The List. I still have a long way to go but the details in the house are coming together. I’ve got new paint colors upstairs, new...
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Progress in Nesting
Last week, after successfully navigating a flight to Connecticut with a 2- and 4- year old, enjoying watching my brother's wedding {despite the fact it was held in a sweltering, unairconditioned,...
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all the blinding brightness
Snow came to South Carolina last night, and oh, how the children {and I!} rejoiced. It’s been a few years since anything white padded our lawns, and my kids couldn’t ever remember seeing it. When the...
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The Keeping Room
Today I’m posting images of our Keeping Room along with Darlene of Fieldstone Hill Design, who provided me with the amazing design. She really made this process fun rather than frustrating, and helped...
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To Redeem The Time
When I first left my 80-hour-a-week job at the hospital, our house contained piles everywhere. Paper piles, clothing piles, dishes and disorganization in every room. I knew how to run a medicine...
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A Tidy Desk and A Clean Slate
Sometimes, all one needs to clean the slate, to turn a new leaf or next page, is simply a tidy desk free of distraction. My writing has taken second fiddle the last few weeks as I’ve been sequentially...
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