animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

flip

I completed my first furniture flip last night. I took my old hope chest and made some updates. I started by removing the top and refinishing it. It was pretty beaten up and still has a distressed look to it (despite sanding the original finish off), which is not what …

early easter

My brother had to work today, so we celebrated Easter yesterday evening. I hosted this year and we had the usual Eastery-type foods. I took Friday off to clean and prep some food. That was probably unnecessary, but I didn’t have to rush around on Saturday, so it was worth …

j is for judgment

This was a pretty good story. And, it didn’t have a ton of characters to keep track of, like Grafton’s stories often do. I’m ahead of schedule with my book reading this year. I try to read at least one (fiction) book a month–I read a bunch of non-fiction, too, …

office kitchen

The office kitchen walls have been painted. They’re the lovely Aloha color from Behr. So, now the kitchen looks like it belongs in a beach house. I’m really happy with how it turned out–I wasn’t sure I was going to like the color. Brian helped me paint and it still …