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Last weekend, my husband and I took off for Northern Virginia/Maryland to pick up a few things
that my husband won in an auction. (You can read about his addiction here.)
One of the perks of taking this trip (besides spending quality time in the car, of course), was visiting Sweet Clover, now owned by the lovely Cassie. (You may know Cassie from her awesome blog, Primitive and Proper.) I "met" Cassie through the blog, and then met her in person at Haven last year. I pass through her area when I go home, and stopped in December to visit. She is just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.
The Barn looks phenomenal--so fresh, clean and inviting! Cassie and her darling business partner, Sarah, have done a great job giving it a young, hip vibe.
Cassie's sweet daughter was there, helping mom get things ready for their sale this weekend. (If you're in the Maryland/Virginia/West Virginia tri-state area, you should definitely check it out.)
...the famous Duck Egg dresser is available!!
To get everyone on the same page for the summer video series....
One of the things I learned at Haven was that I need to keep the focus of my blog a narrow one. *Snort* Like that's even going to happen.
I quizzed the folks I felt comfortable quizzing, and found out that despite the fact that my house projects are tedious and boring, THEY STILL WANT TO READ ABOUT THEM! They also like my crazy story telling. So I thought I'd tell you about the story of my house.
(First of all: This is our 6th house as a couple. We have done major renovation to all but the first, because we were only in that house for 11 months. In that time, we replaced carpeting and paneling, painted a little bit, and hung some wallpaper. [This was back when wallpaper was popular the last time...not this time.] I'm sorta glad we moved, because the kitchen was next on my hit list.)
For fifteen years, we lived in our run-of-the-mill suburban tract house, which I loved. It was 3700 square feet of big honkin' space, with a nice flat front yard, which my mom filled with flowers, and a two-car garage, which my husband filled with man stuff. In the fifteen years we lived there, this is what we did: kitchen (TWICE), master bath, powder room, upstairs hallway bath, basement playroom, basement bathroom, took down five rooms of wallpaper, and painted every room at least once.
I never wanted to DIY again.
But then the knees gave out and going up and down three flights of stairs multiple times a day was not a stellar idea. DL and I began to look for our "retirement home"...the one we could stay in until they cart our cold, lifeless bodies from within. I had one request: that it be new. Because I was never doing a renovation again.
We looked at new houses for three years. Three. Count 'em. I would preview a house, and my husband would look at it if I was really insistent. Sometimes I would go back twice before I even told him about it. I measured and looked at site maps and checked plumbing and made sure if I sat on the toilet that no one could see me from a window or door.
And every new house I looked at? Shot down like Luftwaffe. Little did I know, my husband was holding out for another fixer-upper.
Apparently FIVE houses were not enough to get this out of his system.
Kirb Appeal: the video series starts next week!
Today the feature Friday is my long-time friend, Linda at "It All Started With Paint." I even know her in real life! (Even though I think she might be interested in changing the name of her blog to "It Started Again with Mason Jars," but what do I know?)
Click on Women Who Blog and read my dialogue with Linda!
...has a REAL WRITER! Shop on over to Women Who Write and read all about someone who writes award winning mysteries!
If you have been keeping up with my obsession interest in the Downton Abbey phenomenon, you know that I wrote recaps here and here and here and then...here.
So of course I was intrigued when Hometalk sponsored a get-together with a Downton Abbey theme.
And there were hats involved!
And, is generally the case, I met some really great ladies!
It almost took my mind off the fact that my Sunday nights are a lot more boring without the Dowager.
Of course, the tea helped!
...but I have a great surprise next week so bear with me!!
Meanwhile, click over to read my "Women who blog" interview.
With a man.
