When we set out to build a new house in our back yard, I really had no clue how , exactly, this was all going to work. Ob...

Rachel started a conversation about quilt labeling, and since I'm taking it a bit easy today  I decided a small trip down label...

Let's see. Not a lot of progress on the house-building this week. Monday and Tuesday all available minutes were dedicated...

It's official; we are  nuts. Nuts for a dark walnut stain, that is. So when we couldn't find a stain ...

Not long after we bought the door , I bought a can of teak oil to put on it. And then the can sat in the wall in the garage fo...

(not sure what is up with that huge space! so sorry!!) No time for writing today, but I wanted to get ...

Last week was exhaustingly full of house work, but very little progress by our own hands was made. ~ One huge step forward ...

Two weeks ago, I could no longer quiet  the circle-centered granny square quilt that was demand ing to be made . I trie...