Today I’ll be finishing getting ready for Thanksgiving. Cleaning the house and preparing foods ahead of time. Nine more people will be arriving tonight and staying with us over the holiday weekend. I’ve got food to prepare, not just for Thanksgiving, but for dinner tonight and our Gilmore Girls celebration on Friday. My focus on…
Before the ink was dry on our offer for our new house, IronFish was dreaming of custom built-ins for what would become his office. I’m not about to let a DIY project pass me by, so of course, I started planning with him. Function was the main concern, but we also wanted it to look…
With a small house and a growing family the entryway is a constant problem. No storage or an actual mudroom let me to create a custom entryway system and an organized “mudroom”. This DIY project has been moved and pictures lost but the concept is still intact – November 2016 The Problem: When I walk…
How much time do we end up spending doing laundry, often in a small, unexciting laundry room? A friend of mine asked me to help her makeover her small laundry closet, but as cost effective as possible. This post may contain affiliate links. Which means, if you click the link and buy something, I may…
As the holiday season approaches, I’m getting ready for company in my house. Which means I’m cleaning up… It’s also making me think more about organizing… I thought I’d parlay it into the blog and clean up and organize some of my older posts. I still dream of this two level drawer organizer from my old…
Meatloaf is a favorite dinner in our house. Almost everyone can agree on it but it takes time. Time that I don’t have, but then again, who really does? Hands on time plus the hour or two of baking in the oven is just too much. Some nights we aren’t even getting home until 7pm…
