After I finished my dining table, I was itching for another project to tackle and figured with summer coming up, some outdoor entertainment was the way to go. I LOVED the idea of Ana White’s sandbox with bench, but didn’t like the idea of it taking up a permanent space (i.e., killing grass) in our backyard. […]
Last week I told you I’d post a dining room table tutorial on Monday. Today is Wednesday so I lied. As it turns out, I also didn’t create a step-by-step tutorial, only the Ana White plan that I followed to an almost-T. So I guess I double lied. Forgive me twice. This was my first woodworking […]
Today I didn’t want to do anything. Or go anywhere. Or talk to anyone. And I was doing a really good job of it until husband hit me with “you’re gonna take the kids somewhere, right”? I thought about saying “nah, bro” and going about my search for the perfect wood staining technique. But then I […]
Every spring break we make a family trip to the rodeo, complete with the whole cowboy get-up. And every spring break I take the boys out for a day trip to the beach. Last week, the big boys informed me that they no longer want to wear cowboy gear to the rodeo. Well, one of the […]
My husband knows me well. Chalk it up to our 15 years together or his insight or my inability to hide anything. Three of the 465,000 things he knows about me are that I do not enjoy surprises, I do not enjoy cold weather, and being celebrated makes me extremely uncomfortable. So when he called me from […]
