As Lara mentioned, the kids had been jealous of their parents hogging the furniture while resigning them to lounging in their hard plastic high chairs. Thus, they had been taking some rather dangerous steps to join the party by climbing up on their own. So Mommy had the bright idea to get something a little...
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So around four years ago, I found this chunky little table-and-chairs combo at a thrift store in Madison, Wisconsin. It was already cheap, and, on top of that, marked down 30%, so I think I paid around $24 for the set. I had my antique booth at the time and the intention was always to...
More of the photo enlargement project from last week: Because my over achievers were five weeks early, we never really finished the nursery to my liking — everything was kind of slapped together and has kind of stayed that way for the past year. There were several projects I wanted to finally finish — the...
You may remember my disdain for Restoration Hardware’s faux-vintage nursery book prints. I found these prints a couple of months ago and had been itching to frame them for the nursery. Since I was changing things around in the living room, I happened to have some frames available, so I thought, what the heck, if...
I don’t know what got into me last weekend — whether it was the three-day weekend (those of us who are public school workers in Chicago actually have the day off for Pulaski Day, if you can believe it) or the Spring-like weather — but I started three projects, all involving paint OF DIFFERING COLORS....