Master Bath: The Inspiration

Sometimes, you just make do. For 21 years, Scott and I have been the inhabitants of three beautiful houses and two tiny, but cute, apartments. Our first house, we built. We did that once. Since then, we’ve enjoyed buying homes and slowly DIYing our way through them. It’s just what we do. We knew the…

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Before & After: The Boys’ Bathroom

I had dreams, big dreams, of beginning renovations on our master bathroom. Enter: toilet paper and a fiesty 7yo. Spoiler alert. That never ends well. To make a really, really long story short, Master Luke thought it would be fun to shove toilet paper down the bathroom sink. Not only did it clog the sink,…

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Before & After: The Master Gallery Wall

It has been a hard, HARD week in Texas. If you’ve been following me over on Instagram, you know that the devastation along the Texas coast from Harvey is profound. There is work to be done, for a long time to come. We’re choosing to be the tortoises, as we know this effort is a…

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That Time I Lost my Mind

About two months ago, I hopped on Instagram and shared, via Insta-stories, the crazy hair I got to declutter and deep clean my entire house in ten days. Y’all. I was heavily medicated. On Dr Pepper and Dos Equis. I’m blaming it largely on this gal. However, I’d been wanting to really clear out the…

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The Best of 2016

I always love the “best of” lists people write: best photos, best blog posts, best recipes, best everything. It’s such a glimpse into life, isn’t it? 2016 was beautiful, and hard, just like most years. With age, I’m starting to truly understand that no year is perfect, rather it’s our perspective that changes. We learn…

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