Our Home. My Canvas.
I thought my level of stress about the kids would decrease as they got older. Silly me. Little did I know that stress is like matter. It never goes away. It just moves through different states … Solid. Liquid. Gas. When the kids were still little and new, I stressed about everything. About them getting hurt. About how we needed more locks on our doors … and why, for that … [Read more...]
Did you ever feel like someone was watching you? And I don’t mean in some stalker-ish hiding behind a bush or watching through binoculars kind of way … I mean right in plain sight. Sitting across a conference room table from you in plain sight … In the company of other people in plain sight … And, admittedly, looking straight at you because you’re talking … … [Read more...]
I subscribe to the ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ club. I also believe the ‘you can’t build a better mousetrap’ theorem. Unfortunately, I have personal experience with this one. And let me tell you, hearing that snap and that squeal is one of the most unpleasant sounds. Ever. But it works. Effectively. Efficiently. Quickly. Oh, and I’m a card carrying member of the ‘why reinvent the … [Read more...]
Sometimes I wonder what Martha Stewarts’s basement looks like … Well, not present-day Martha with the empire and the Macy’s ads and the magazine and television shows. I’m pretty sure present-day empire Martha has the world’s most fabulous basement. With everything perfectly – and prettily – organized and labeled and tucked away out of sight. And I’m pretty sure her basement has a screening room and a game room … [Read more...]
Happy Halloween! One of the many things I love about my neighborhood is the number of kids who show up to trick-or-treat at our house. I also love that my neighbors embrace Halloween and get creative with their decorations. Ernie the beagle and I took a walk around the ‘hood' and snapped pics of some of our favorites . . . I love this webbed fence that our contractor neighbor constructed. Very … [Read more...]
Seems like each year at Halloween I add a few more elements to my house décor. This year I came across this fun door decorated with bats … Country Living … and thought I’d add it around my front door. I started with a bat stencil I found here on marthastewart.com. I wanted the bat dimensions to be varied, so I made two additional sizes of the stencil. On black poster board I used chalk to trace … [Read more...]
Hi there! My name is Linda and I’m a Jersey-born-and-bred Midwestern transplant who lives in Chicago with my husband and two children. We've lived in our home since 1995 and over the years our style has changed and evolved. I wouldn't call my home a work-in-progress -- more like a rework-in-progress as I refresh and remodel things around here ... one room at a time.
