Our little Marielle was born one year ago. Month by month We celebrated her birthday a couple weekends ago with Luciana because their birthdays are so close together.   She showed off her newly acquired walking skills at the party but hasn't walked again since.  Needless to say, she loved her first taste of cake.  I had the

First up in the tour is the living room. What we did: -added light fixture -added four recessed lights -refinished floors -plaster work -primed and painted water damaged areas -removed decomposed mouse from fireplace -scrub, scrub, scrub Yet to do: -sand & paint picture rail -refinish woodwork -sand and hang bookcase doors -touch up paint and plaster -paint

It's been a year already.  Hard to believe, especially today while looking at these photos, that we were actually crazy enough to buy this house last year. I thought it would be fitting this week to revisit some old photos of where it all began, along with some progress shots (I don't have a lot of "afters" yet,

I've been wanting to post some updates of what I've been working on around the house, but felt like it would be disingenuous until I lay out, at least in a small way through this post, the deeply unsettling feeling I've had these past two weeks. I hear the news of what's going on with ISIS and the