I really can’t begin to count the number of times that Mr. M and I have visited flooring stores in 2009… thought we knew what we wanted… and then completely changed our minds and stalled on the whole process. We’d love to replace all of the flooring downstairs somehow, but each time we thought in [...]

On Friday, my Dad hopped up from the cooler coast and headed to our hot little house (then again, what part of CA wasn’t burning up this weekend? or today?) to help with lots of crazy projects we had on the “to-do” list. And with his generous help (and extra set of hands and muscle) [...]

The first seedlings are in the ground, so it’s time to plant once again using the Burpee Ultimate Growing System. This time around I’ve got lots of annual seeds that I purchased, so we’ll see how they do sprouting in 7-10 days and once they’re in the soil as well.

I never got [...]

Thanks to Burpee’s Ultimate growing system, we have a flourishing plate of seedlings ready to pop in the ground outside. These just happen to be a bunch of perennials that I picked up at Lowe’s (where we bought the kit as well), and all of them seem to love the sun they get [...]

Remember those super fun stickers I got for our bathroom tiles? Well I installed them forever ago, but kept forgetting to take a photo of them in the bright morning light, but here are the results!

They really look great, and were incredibly easy [...]

I’ve been toiling through my seed catalogs (nothing too exotic this year… if things grow, then I’ll go crazy over the $$ stuff next season) and trying my best to make sense of what we can grow in the garden. I have to say that the teaser plants on the outside of the Burpee catalog [...]

We have a yard. We have planting beds in the front & back yards. And we are not gardeners. But we will try.

We received the Burpee catalog in the mail, albeit a bit late to ideally start planting everything, but boy is it enticing. We also have [...]

I think I’ve found a quick answer to our “lack of color” dilemma in our master bathroom: MIBO tile tattoos. Our master bath is the same color as the rest of our house (Dunn Edwards Cochise), and while recently we spiffed it up by adding 2 new towel racks, it’s [...]

Thanks to a small stop at Lowe’s on Saturday, we have our first tree up in the house! If you didn’t know already, they’ve marked down all of their holiday decorations (indoor/outdoor) to 50% off… and some items rang up for even less than that… like our bargain of a 7.5′ tree at 75% [...]

Mr. M was quite lucky to grow up next to the city that celebrates the advent season like no other: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And one of the Christmas traditions that we’ve started at our house involves Moravian candles. Everyone just uses the electric candles as decoration, but places them in the center of every window [...]

Last week, our Bath & Body Works wallflower in the loft/entertainment room expired, so I popped in one of our stockpiled holiday flavors to spice up the room. Little did I know that this scent would soon take over the entire house and leave me craving some sort of pumpkin goodness morning, noon and [...]

After “rearranging” our master closet on multiple occasions, I decided that that answer did not lie in the color order or arrangement of the clothes. My problem was the hangers.

I set out to fix this problem via IKEA, with a plan to slowly but steadily purchase packages of BUMERANG clothes hangers until [...]