My goal in life (other than getting rid my constantly ingrown toenail) is to have the perfect coffee table. You know the one. It’s the big square, stylish yet comfortable looking one in all the magazines, loaded with a few casually, yet perfectly placed random objects set beside a stack of art books that make me look like I’m both cultured and smart with a sense of irony. I’m sure you’ve seen it. At the moment my coffee table has a silver bowl and a glass vase. Ehh. It’s so-so. I’ll probably change it tonight in my desperate attempt to fall in love with it. That’s what I do. Move things, change things, screw around with them until I fall in love with them. I do it with furniture arrangements, table settings, bookcases and closets. I do it with stuff I buy and stuff I make. Read on to learn how to make it, move it or repurpose it.
I would like to interrupt today’s regularly scheduled post with this brief announcement. There are 2 days until my annual Christmas Eve party and I still haven’t planned out, bought the ingredients for, or decided on a menu. As of now the menu looks like this: store bought cookies and hairbrushes. There may not [...]
In keeping with this week’s theme of ohmygodistillhavesomuchtodohowdidthishappen, I’m going right into today’s post. There will be no funny. None. This here is a bare, bones post with pretty pictures. And hopefully some inspiration. And intrigue. And maybe even a MURDER! But probably not. I have a great story about a bag of potato chips, [...]
Anyone who’s been following my blog for a while is familiar with my Portable Outdoor Fire Pit. This winter I took the premise of that fire pit and altered it to make it bigger, badder and more impressive. And you can do it too. Unless you’re frightened of going bigger, badder and more impressive. Because [...]
It was one year ago that I almost choked on a piece of gum and died. Almost. At the very least I was winded and had to sit quietly for a moment. I remember the day like it was yesterday. Ironically I can’t remember my “actual” yesterday. I was visiting my niece’s house to [...]
3 months ago I sat straight up in bed and said “Pinecone bows” out loud. It wasn’t the weirdest thing I’d ever done in bed, but it was up there. I knew, like the time I apparently pushed the fella right out of bed, I would forget this in the morning. So I got [...]
I shouldda been a farmer. If given the choice between living in a penthouse in New York City and a farm in the middle of Montana with a herd of cattle and shotgun, I’d pick the shotgun every time. Well, not necessarily the shotgun, but the farm setting. Where sometimes you need a shotgun. [...]
It has been a longggg time since I did a Dollar Store post. I’m not “off” the Dollar Store. I’m still quite madly in love with the Dollar Store. We were just on a break for a while. We’re back together again. And it’s all because of a plate. A white, rectangular, sharp cornered plate [...]
When I was growing up we never had a laundry basket in the house. That’s because we were so privileged and averse to any form of manual labour that we simply threw our dirty clothes in the woodland forest behind our house and had Yves (St. Laurent) make us new stuff. By the time [...]
Now you’ll probably think I’m exaggerating, but I had the best day of my entire life a couple of weeks ago. I FOUND SOME STICKS! Not just *any* sticks! I found 2 bundles of perfectly straight sticks out behind the kitchen store I shop at. In their garbage pile, covered in muck and discarded coffee [...]
Cute, right? To put it in perspective … here it is in the room. Rather large. Rather impressive. Rather cheap. $1 for the yarn at the Dollar Store, $1 for the two way tape. If you need to go out and buy the spiders, that’ll set you back another dollar or two. I know. I [...]
First things first. I’m afraid of spiders, I don’t like spiders, spiders are the devil. Big, fake spiders however, don’t bother me none. Until last year while going through the checkout at my local Dollarama, I had no idea how lucky I was to have the bravery in me to be able to [...]
I’ve been blogging for a year and a half now. So I’m kind of a veteran. I have learned a couple of things as a blogging old timer. 1. Use the word tinkle a lot. Tinkle is a funny word that always gets a laugh. 2. People do not want to tackle any project that [...]
