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This post was written for Houseblogs.net as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by True Value. Visit http://www.startrightstarthere.com/ and checkout TrueValue!So we've been in our new home 3 weeks now... we've done so much already in the short time sinc [Read More] 

So our daughter Ella is 17 months old. I've decided to stick with her current room theme of Winnie The Pooh even with the move, for a while longer. Eventually when we move her to a toddler bed, we'll switch it up, probably to Disney Princess. So the [Read More] 

... our son grows up in a house that is more than 400 years old; he eats in an antique high chair; he sleeps in an antique cot; he rides an antique rocking horse (well actually it is a rocking roe deer, but that is another story); he plays with antiq [Read More] 

Another loooong silence over here, although I actually have a lot to post about. Being a working-and-diy'er-mom just leaves little time for blogging. We're all doing great and with our son taking his first steps, life became yet more exciting ;-)We f [Read More] 

With our baby being due yesterday or March 5 (depending on which due date you go by), we think we finally have everything done! And while it seems like I have been nesting since Chris and I got married (home=hobby to me, but not so much to Chris!), [Read More] 

About a year ago, when I was just a few weeks pregnant, we bought a nice wooden highchair for our little one and put it away in one of our barns in order not to tempt fate. By now our son is 7,5 months old and we took our midwife's advice, not to let [Read More] 

A. took some better photographs of the nursery, so I thought I'd share them:br /br /a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39082280@N00/3119321416/" title="View 1 of nursery by guaharibo, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/311932141 [Read More] 

Of course this room is just going to be fixed and then left blank probably until we are actually expecting. lol. But when we get to that point, this will become the nursery. I spent a while today looking through the top rated baby rooms on a href="ht [Read More] 

We still don't have a name picked out - I refuse to name our child HERBERT or any of the other off-the-wall names SOMEBODY keeps coming up with - but by golly, we've got a color scheme in mind!We will keep the floor the pale yellow it is, paint the w [Read More] 

pI#8217;ve ordered the a href="http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p10566/index.cfm?pkey=call-chandeliers-pendants" target="_blank"Harrison Vintage Ceiling Fixture/a, and I already have the gold Syroco branch and birds (which may or may not get spray [Read More] 

This room has been a haven for my craft messes for awhile now, but soon we will start making it into a nursery for our baby that is on the way. I am not sorry to give up this room, it's for such a good cause, but where on earth am I going to put all [Read More] 

Ginger's room
Ginger has finally moved into her room, just in time for her first birthday! It’s not *quite* finished as it still needs closet doors and a wall sconce, but it’s definitely functional. I’m a bit frustrated by [Read More] 

A year ago today marked my the end of my fifth week of “house arrest” (otherwise known as bed rest.)
Chloe, the older of our two daughters, was born prematurely and spent roughly six weeks in the hospital. So last May, when baby number t [Read More] 

Ginger’s room is coming along nicely. The most difficult part, not surprisingly, was the closet doors. We always find that any of the “adapted” house parts that we get from salvage yards (in this case, the Rebuilding Center) to [Read More] 

Today kicked off Upstairs, pt. 107. Actually, we have no idea how many days have been “lost” up there, but that’s intentional. We honestly don’t want to know!
Much of yesterday and today was spent on home improvement store ru [Read More] 

Becoming Baby is a ….
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Or, see if you can guess based on this photo and caption:
The Shortest Lived Paint Job in the House….
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Hibernation is definitely over at the witch's hut! Now let me explain why you had to wait for news for such a long time:The most important reason for me not blogging on house-related things is probably the most wonderful reason in the world: I'm preg [Read More] 

feb10 nursery 1 Originally uploaded by southsideandy Well, we're 16 days from the baby's supposed due date, so it could be any day now. We've got a couple things left to do in the nursery, but here are some pictures of it during the day, sinc [Read More] 

So you're probably wondering where I've been. Or maybe not.Well, in between shoveling out piles and piles of snow (about 8-9 inches late last week, followed by another 3 or so last night), we've actually been up to getting things done in anticipation [Read More] 

We unzipped out lazy suits and added some more art to the room of Blaise!He now has my old train wall sign that once said Amy in 1973.(thanks pops for saving it)He now has a door decorated by Finn and mom- recycled DRW catolgue owls.He now has a Nikk [Read More] 