Celebrating my Husband’s 35th Birthday with On-Demand Deliveries!
This post contains affiliate links. For more information, see our advertising disclosure. My husband’s 35th birthday was this past week, and as longtime readers know, I love to go all out for birthdays! But this year, I had a problem: last week was basically the work week from hell. I was pulling 12-14 hour days, […]
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Spring Garden Tasks: Hilling Potatoes for Better Yield!
Our little potato patch that I first wrote about in my spring garden update is no longer so little, guys! This past weekend, my darling potato plants were surpassing the one-foot mark, and that could only mean one thing: it was time to “hill” my potatoes. What’s “hilling” you ask? Well, it’s pretty simple. You take […]
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Cheap 4th Anniversary Gift Idea: Watercolor Slideshow Video!
Well, today marks four wonderful years with my hubby and partner in crime. We’ll be taking a trip to the UK & Ireland next month to properly celebrate, but I didn’t want to let the day go by without at least marking the occasion in some small (and hopefully, inexpensive) way. Last year, presented with […]
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Fun DIY Housewarming Gift: Bloody Mary Easter Basket
One of my best friends recently moved into a brand new custom-built house. The process was arduous, with her spending months picking each and every detail and overseeing (and occasionally correcting) the construction along the way. But after a many month process, she is now happily settling in to her new place, and invited us over for […]
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Garden Update: Spring 2017
You always hear that gardening is addictive. You start with one thing…maybe just a single container tomato plant, or a small herb planter box…and then BAM! suddenly you’re the weirdo tilling up your whole front yard. Well, my friends…I’m like, five seconds away from becoming that crazy person. Since building our wicking raised bed garden […]
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Building a Raised-Bed Berry Bramble
My name is Whitney, and I’m a mail-order gardening catalog addict. (Hi, Whitney.) And that’s why, at some point in the dormancy of winter, I apparently decided to order a whole bunch of plants that I simply did not have room for in my existing self-watering raised bed garden, or even my in-ground partial-shade garden […]
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Highlights from our “Nevertheless, She Persisted” Postcard Party
This past weekend, we invited several of our more liberal-leaning friends over for a slightly different kind of social event: a postcard party. The purpose of this sort of gathering is to get individuals together to write their elected officials, but in a way that’s fun, social, and builds up our community. The planning for the party […]
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Our Living Room Remodel Revealed: Before & After Pics!
This post contains affiliate links. For more information, see our About page. It’s finally done! After my annoying back-and-forth with West Elm, and scouring my garage for interesting mantle items, my new living room remodel is finally finished! And I’m loving it. Our room before was just a hodgepodge of things that we had both […]
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Styling a Mantle with (Mostly) Found Objects
As part of our ongoing living room remodel, it became evident that my old mantle styling (which centered around a tile mosaic of one of my favorite vintage Italian alcohol posters) could use an update as well. I’m a big fan of the “asymmetrical balance” approach to mantle styling, and I also don’t like the idea […]
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Warning: Be Careful Before You Buy Furniture From West Elm
Today, I had a really unfortunate interaction with West Elm, and thought my readers should be alerted to some rather dishonest policies they’re hiding from customers. So here’s my West Elm review. This story all started a couple weeks ago. We decided that it was finally time to replace our old couch, and after looking at literally hundreds […]
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