Finally, we are getting somewhere in The Scary Bathroom. It is starting to look less like a trash pit and more like an actual bathroom, you know, where people take showers and get ready for work and stuff.
Well, perhaps I spoke out of turn. However, the room does seem full of possibility again.
The Scary Bathroom:…
Hello, week three anxiety. I've been expecting you. Week three of the One Room Challenge is typically when I start getting antsy about finishing on time. The problem is that I am still destroying things when I feel as if I should be putting it all back together by now. It is my typical method…
It's week two, and I am already cutting my losses. I'm either getting smarter, or I am advancing through the stages of One Room Challenge panic at a faster rate than usual. Either way, six hours and only one surface into skim coating the bathroom walls, I had the following thought, I need to pay someone…
Last Friday, I was not sure if we would participate in this round of the One Room Challenge. Our spring project went from bad to worse, and I just wasn't sure I had it in me to tackle another project right now. After a lot of soul-searching, I decided that I like the punishment of…
I know; It's Saturday. I promise I am not losing my mind. Can we agree to pretend it is Friday?
Episode #2 of the Blake Hill House podcast is live! Did you get a chance to listen yet? Producing the podcast has been a humbling experience. I have already decided that if I win the lottery,…
I saw this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and I nodded my head in agreement.
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Minnesota - September 2018
Living somewhere with four distinct seasons is an adjustment our family is still making. The first couple of years, we…