It's December and officially time to decorate for Christmas if you haven't already! Some years we do elaborate decorations for Christmas but this wasn't that year. Part of it was the addition of a third kitty to our household. Part of it was that our kids decorated in the middle of October, making it easy for me to lower my standards and enjoy the free decorating service. Part of it was my ... View Post
My 11 Favorite Things for the Holidays
My Favorite Things We were planning to decorate for Christmas closer to Thanksgiving this year. Last year we decorated earlier than that because of fall-decor burnout, from our fall magazine photo shoot earlier that year. But we had to decorate our shop, and once our kids saw the glittering array of Christmas decor, they took it on themselves to decorate our house. So don't judge if you see ... View Post
Christmastime is Here
Merry Christmas! I meant to do a post earlier with some Thanksgiving pictures, but now it's a little late! Did anyone make the eggnog coffee cake? I did, and then made it again! We had decorated for Christmas early so our magazine photographer could get some shots, and were pretty excited to forego the fall decorating since we did so much of that for the Fall magazine photo shoot. But on ... View Post
New Kitchen Studio
It's starting to get cold outside and that means two things. One: eggnog is coming soon to our fridge and two: our kitchen studio is HAPPENING. Meaning, there are just a few weeks left of calm before our first sample kitchen arrives. By calm, I mean the time where we're choosing the countertop samples that will appear in our shop from hundreds of options, finalizing cabinet-hardware suppliers, ... View Post
