I thought I’d give you a play-by-play of the last 3 days of the BHG Christmas photo shoot at our house… The photographer, Helen Norman (above), and her assisant Fj Hughes (below) shot the house on Wednesday and Thursday. They arrived both mornings around 8 AM or so. (Just having had a baby, it’s really hard […]
February 27, 2010Well, “Christmas” is finally here again! (Below, the boxes that have been arriving at our house for the BHG shoot) Better Homes & Gardens Assistant Editor Joanna Linberg and stylist Jessica Thomas arrived at our house yesterday!! Joanna is writing the article & assisting Jessica in the set up, and Jessica is running the show. The first thing […]
February 24, 2010Somehow things just accumulate in my kitchen. We have a little tray that’s supposed to be for wallets & cell phones & sunglasses, but it ends up overflowing with coupons and batteries & lightbulbs & screws &chargers and other random annoyances. Things just come into our house & if we don’t stay on top of […]
February 23, 2010…You do not fit in my house! What to do- what to do??? The tree below was our Christmas tree this year. We measured it but I somehow the new tree is way bigger… in every way. I’m guessing (hoping!) that stuff like this happens all the time in magazine photo shoots, but I’m not […]
February 19, 2010I’m so excited to be a guest blogger for Lauren! Lauren mentioned that her readers like “before and after” posts, so I thought I would share my kitchen update with you. When my husband, Steve and I first built our home, we decided to use simple, classic materials in our kitchen. We selected white subway […]
February 18, 2010So after our crazy weekend of bench-haggling and coffee-table searching (see previous posts) we found “the one!” We’d searched all day and found everything BUT the coffee table I was looking for & I was about to give up. For a last-ditch effort, we stopped at the Restoration Hardware outlet. I sat in the car […]
February 16, 2010So it’s another not-so-pretty project, but one that makes life easier. The truth is, my junk drawer got to the point where it wouldn’t shut anymore, so it was really obvious as to which organizational project we’d be undertaking this week. It was so bad: So many things that belonged in other places had found their […]
February 8, 2010Finally a real Winter! This is the best one in years… We’re loving the snow (and snow days- yay for being married to a teacher! ) It feels like it did when we were kids… The pine boughs are touching the ground (and our cars) the snow is so heavy: (This pic was taken before […]
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