Juice

Well, I haven’t forgotten you all, I assure you. There seems to be a limit to how much ‘creative juice’ I get each day and lately I’ve been sketching the wall-paper I want to stencil on our living room wall, among other things of course! Pictures will come I promise. Read more…

Kitchen Remodel

For those who haven’t already checked this out on our facebook page… Over Christmas break we had the ambitious goal of tiling our kitchen floor and countertop. Sounds do-able for a week off according to HGTV, right? Well, we were pretty clueless about what we were doing, and there is Read more…

Handmade/Remade

Several people have asked what I made each of the kids for Christmas… With trimmings untrimmed and school underway again, I thought it was about time you got to see the pictures. First, some background: After moving from house to house for a few years we had a bizarre assortment Read more…

The Story

Yes, I am only caught up on blogging through Christmas Eve… please just deal with it. It would’ve been nice to share all this via my mobile blogging on my Blackberry or iPhone, but alas, don’t own one and couldn’t do it anyway from here, so you will just have Read more…

Pineapple

Since I know many of you don’t have pineapple growing in your backyard, and because I find them gorgeous and interesting as plants… I will share the little I know about the pineapples growing in our backyard. Now this is one tropical fruit I can’t get enough of! So a Read more…

Candycane

You can probably guess that candycanes haven’t really taken off in Europe.And if they haven’t taken off in Europe, they don’t really make it to South Africa.And if they don’t make it in South Africa, we can’t usually find it in East Africa. So we were pretty excited when someone Read more…