I picked up the Andrea Blom quilt cover a couple weeks ago, and finally put it on the bed tonight. I love the pattern: blue gingko leaves on a teal background, with an overlay of a sort of lacy gold pattern. But the best part, I realized tonight: Ikea has started putting snaps on the opening at the...
Last night, I was sitting on the twin bed in our spare bedroom, watching TV. My cat Katrina was laying next to me, falling deeper and deeper into sleep as she rolled closer to the edge of the bed. Well, she woke up real quick when she started to slide off the edge! In trying to save herself, she tore...
When we moved into our house, neither my husband nor I had much of anything in the way of furniture. I had a desk, small dresser, and twin bed from my college apartment, and he had a couple sets of drawers he was storing his clothes in. So... we had nothing at all to put in our living room.
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When we moved into our three-bedroom house, we decided that my husband would use the smallest bedroom for his art studio and the partially finished office in the basement for his music studio. I would get the other spare bedroom as a computer and craft room, in addition to it being a guest room and...
Last August we redid our kitchen. The thing was, we had an extra-wide stove. So I wanted to get a new, regular size stove, as well as all new cabinets from Ikea (because ours are just really poorly thought out). In the end, though, it was much cheaper to refinish the cabinets we had and get a new wide...