Andrew and I have been talking about the importance of what we put on our walls. We want to put things up that will influence our children and ourselves in positive ways, things that will be imprinted in our minds from seeing them so often. One concept that I really want us to remember is…
Making This Place Home
Pillow Project
When we bought our couch and love seat over four years ago, the nice family from American Fork made sure we didn’t leave their garage without the four brown pillows too. About two years ago it occurred to me I could sew pillow covers for them and I added it to my list. On Friday…
Project Afghan
At the beginning of the year I got yarn to start a new afghan. I had reached a point in my life where I just needed a project that wouldn’t require me to think and help distract me in the evenings from my own unproductive thoughts. A few weeks later we found out we were…
Emily’s Toddler Bed
I didn’t get much sleep Emily’s first year of life. I’m pretty sure that is quite normal, but now that she is sleeping through the night I have become very protective of our routines. I love the ease we’ve had at bedtimes and nap times for the last handful of months. Because of this wonderful…
Laundry Corner and Homemade Laundry Detergent
I’ve been trying to fill our home with little, important reminders of how we want to live life. With the laundry corner part of our kitchen, I decided to design two quotes that are both semi-food related as well as instructive. It took a few months to hang them up above the dryer, but I’ve…
Project Spice Rack
On Saturday as I was putting away the tupperware containers in the cupboard, I had the thought that it would stay a lot more organized if we took all of our spice jars off the same shelf and made more room for the stacks of plastic. Almost simultaneously I had the idea to use the…
A Garden Update
Our garden has started producing vegetables! We’ve been eating lots of delicious cucumbers and cherry tomatoes right out of our backyard. The zucchini plant has some baby zucchinis on them that will soon be part of our dinner. Our acorn squash plants has lots of flowers still but no signs of squash life yet. Emily…
Bean Bag Project
A few weeks ago, Emily and I started making bean bags out of scrap material. This was the first project we did together that went really well start to finish, and I didn’t get so frustrated that I just finished it myself. It was low stress and I didn’t care that each square was absolutely…
Getting Settled
With Andrew passing his thesis defense the reality of our staying in the same place for the next few years has begun to sink in. To celebrate Emily and I have spent the last two weeks going through the closets in our house and unpacking! Andrew and I have had things in storage for so…
Family Garden Project
Our home has a little fenced in backyard with a shed, patio, and grassy area. I had hoped to put a garden in, and once we found out Andrew was accepted to the phd program here and we wouldn’t be moving for many years I moved forward with those plans. This was our starting place:…