Backyard Dreaming & Scheming

**Before I get to the post, I want to warn you that I have a slew of decor projects coming to the blog in the next couple of weeks–including a desk transformation later this week. We have been busy, and my decoration posts have been coming along slower than usual. Thanks for being patient, and…

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Pinterest Fail: The Oven Baking Soda Fiasco of 2013

I love Pinterest. You love Pinterest. We all love Pinterest. It’s a great symposium of ideas. But not all pins are created equal. And not all of them work for me. This blog is about real life, and in real life, things don’t always work. We inherited some great appliances with our new house. We…

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5 Things We Learned About Buying a House

We are in no way real estate experts–not even a little bit. We know only as much as any other first time home buyer, but we are at a stage in life when a lot of our friends are just now thinking about buying homes or are just a few years off from that season,…

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House Floorplan

I am so looking forward to sharing more pictures and a photo tour of our soon-to-be home, but in the mean time, I will share a rough floorplan of the house. Dimensions are roughly accurate, but certainly not exact. We have so many dreams and plans, but most of them involve keeping things in the…

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Wedding Memories: The Things I Couldn’t Plan

I am an excellent planner. Give me a pad of paper and a few hours and I will plan your life for you (just kidding…you really shouldn’t do that.) But really, I love to plan things–especially weddings. When I was about eight, I drew out a detailed wedding plan called “Chandler’s Black & White Wedding”…

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