A Living Room Makeover on a Budget

When we bought our house almost two years ago, we had a finite amount of money that we had alloted for home decorating.  It was to be used for little things like paint, wall hangings, and somewhat important items like, oh I don’t know, furniture.  The problem was, we basically had a whole house to [...]

A Little Household Dreaming

We just got our Pottery Barn catalog in the mail.  Even though I haven’t ordered from them in two years, we regularly get their catalogs which is just fine by me.  It gives me an opportunity to drool over things that I can’t possibly afford (or have space for) right now.  And let’s face it, [...]

Home Design – Before and After Bathrooms

If there’s one thing I love better than home design, it’s looking at pictures of before and after home designs.  I totally get sucked into those TV shows where they show you what the room looked like before, when it was decorated with bad wallpaper and wood paneling, to how it looked after the home owner spent $20,000 [...]

Making a Wreath

(Okay, this is my last Christmas post for 2008.  If I had been on the ball, I would have been posting this during the holidays, but alas, I was not on the ball, I was vacationing.) Speaking of balls… the only after-Christmas-sales that we made an effort to get to were the ones that offered Christmas ornaments and [...]

Santa Baby…

(Note: I do realize that the holiday season is over, but I finally uploaded my pictures from our vacation and wanted to post them since I didn’t do it while actually on vacation.  So the next couple of posts will be about Christmas – please bear with me.) For roughly the past 10-15 years, my mother [...]

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree…

Christmas decorating is a slightly controversial topic in our house.  In fact, we’ve had many a discussion about wreaths, trees, and lights.  The CPA firmly believes that holiday decorations should not be displayed until a couple of weeks before Christmas and not a minute earlier.  I, on the other hand, feel that Christmas decorations are to [...]

Sister’s Shower

As is customary for brides-to-be, a shower was held for my little sister this weekend, one that was hosted by her roommates.  Now I won’t embarass her like I did with her previous shower (other than to throw in one or two pictures of her at the end) but I wanted to show the amazing [...]