Nine years of wedded bliss… AND a video.
Paul and I are on vacation this week… We’re celebrating nine years of being married. Nine years of being amazed at how lucky I got. Nine years of wondering if he listens to a word I say. Nine years of...
View ArticleJust like Casablanca… But with a better ending.
My whole life I have been full of random, useless ideas… If just having ideas counted for anything, I would be the most productive person on the planet. Before this blog, these ideas just lived in my...
View ArticleChristmas decorating… Part one.
Christmas is to bloggers, what tax season is to accountants. Except with whimsy, and extravagance, and the need to not do anything anyone else is doing, and with the requirement to have 57,000 ideas...
View ArticleA video where we haul the bed up to the second-floor roof and shove it in the...
In case you missed: bed part 1, bed part 2. The headboard alone was enough to sell me on this bed. If there had been nothing but the the fancy bit at the top glued to a cardboard refrigerator box, I...
View ArticleVideo of the first floor, Paul doing standup, & a homebuying moment.
Normally I decline sponsored-content… Not because we do not need the money, but because we do not need free cereal, the prestige inherent in writing 3,000 words about miniblinds, or the glory related...
View ArticleAnother bed video & random thoughts.
I wanted to include this video in last week’s post, but I needed to switch video-hosts (my free trial had expired and the service was too expensive,) and I waited until the last minute, and then ran...
View ArticleI bet you thought I was kidding about DIY-mining my own marble countertops.
Paul was away for work early in spring. This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does I worry about two things: 1. previously-discussed proliferation of ax murderers outside the house. 2. that...
View ArticleA short video of my first auction experience.
Last month killed me… I am actually writing from beyond the grave. (Such is my commitment to you.) I might not even be here today, if it were not for the fact that I went to my first auction,...
View ArticleThe auction/ sofa report. Part II.
Last week was the first time in my blog’s history that I did not write a post that was WAY longer than anyone wanted to read. I even managed to leave out what I paid for the sofa I bought at my first...
View Article10 year anniversary — our wedding day in a 2min video.
When I am incredibly busy and stressed, I like to compound it all by beginning extensive projects other than that which I am supposed to be working on. I award myself extra points if they are...
View ArticleOut with the old, in with the older — Eastlake bookcase & a video.
Even though I know that the budget is run by a sock puppet government with no real power… for some reason, rather than getting on with the overthrow, I’ve just paced back and forth in front of the...
View ArticleWant to see our kitchen island? I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE IT. *video*
Last summer I saw a posting on Craigslist. I felt like my teeth were being electrocuted, which is how you know something good is happening. Or that you are about to have a seizure. I went to show Paul,...
View ArticleGutting the piano: repurposed kitchen island pt 3. *video*
this is part 3… here is part 1, part 2. While conducting my tri-state search for a piano-into-kitchen-island, I have been simultaneously having an ongoing philosophical dispute with Paul, over the very...
View ArticleBuilding drawers inside the piano!! DIY repurposed kitchen island, pt 5. *video*
if you’re new to the piano, start here! After we decided to put drawers in the piano, I spent a few days doing mockups. Because I know nothing of building furniture, I was not restricted by things like...
View ArticlePiano into kitchen island– designing drawers and storage. *video*
new to the piano? start here. If you don’t want to read all of my precious words, skip to the video at the end. It explains this entire post in fifty seconds. BUILDING DRAWERS / PROJECT OVERVIEW: 1....
View ArticleIt’s been a while since something was too big for the stairwell and had to go...
This post is sponsored by Paul’s patience. All opinions are my own. After the kitchen-bookcase-misappropriation, I excommunicated Self; denying her Craigslist access and banning her from a position of...
View ArticleOnce upon a time. Craigslist. The end… *video*
While watching yet another stranger enter our home and cart off some of our belongings, Paul said – I finally figured it out: that bookcase is clogs. He is referencing a story that my parents love to...
View ArticleReclaimed marble slabs for our kitchen countertops. (AND another grand piano)...
So. We got another square grand piano. (Here is the first.) Somehow in my world, this is not really a big deal and what I’m actually writing about are the marble slabs that were also headed to the...
View ArticleI need your help. *video.*
No fun preface today because I’m having a crisis and I need your help. (If you’re only here for the party, go read this post where I tried to get Paul to help me sew Christmas bows.) This is why I need...
View ArticleWELCOME TO VICTORIA’S MIRROR EMPORIUM! **video**
Here at Victoria’s Mirror Emporium, we say: How can you call yourself a mirror emporium, if you DON’T HAVE LOTS OF MIRRORS?! YOU CAN’T! IT’S THE LAW! Am I am spinning towards a supernova, or am I...
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