While taking that art class last year, after drawing some animals from photos like this pencil drawing of my son or this acrylic giraffe, and even free handing this pastel cow, I got the insane notion (hind sight ...

With the chevron wall finished, we moved on to making a shelf. The shelf will serve a couple of purposes. 1. It will hold the soap 2. It will have a curtain under it to hide all the outlets and hoses. 3. It will add another la ...

In Denmark, last month, I bought the new issue of "Liv". My friend Line had her kitchen published in a four page spread. Check it out. When I first saw her kitchen, I was just blown away. And not only her kitchen. Her whole h ...

I brought back a few things from our recent trip to Denmark. I always get so much inspiration when I go there. I am also sticking an update on my weight loss at the bottom of my post. Here are some of my finds this time. 1 Swan ...

I just came back from a lovely trip to Denmark. We were gone over the holidays and celebrated Christmas and New Year with our family there. After getting home, I usually spend the first week getting to the bottom of the laundr ...

I thought I would start off the new year with a bang and dive right into some remodeling. Remodeling is by far my biggest passion and if time and money allowed, I would do that all day long, day in and day out. This year our ma ...

This bread, when you slice it, is better than even before sliced bread. Would you believe if I tell you that this bread is tasty, holds together well, is not dry (I am trying not to say moist, but that is really what it is) and ...

What a year! In 2013, my life moved forward in a lot of ways in relationship to the goals I set for myself and the blog for 2013. Let's check in, shall we? Goals I set for 2013 Myself Be less critical/judgemental - of others ...

Here is my last monthly round-up of 2013 - the highlights of what I did in December. Left to right, top to bottom: 1. and 2. Dare to give home made: jewel toned bracelet and gift wrap 3. and 4. Advent calendar 2013 5. Christmas ...

What says Celebrate better than chocolate. I know: nothing I was searching for some good chocolate and tried buying a couple of recommended organic, fair trade, healthy chocolate bars at whole foods. Blech. They tasted chalk ...

This is the other project I used my new snowflake punch for. I love how over sized it is. The first project I used it for was a garland for my Christmas mantel. I found some wooden roof shingles at the craft store in the sect ...

If someone gave me a jingle bell and asked me to come up with an ornament, this is what I would make. I know, because that is the challenge we posed among a group of bloggers. I will post links to everyone else's creations ...

This year I was in the mood or an all white mantel. Last year, I made a hand felted garland which was multi colored. This year, I put that garland on my tree. Instead I then made this paper snow flake garland for my mantel. T ...

Is there a better time to show you the advent calendar that I made for my son this year than after we are already half way through it? No, right? So here it is. I used a mix of brown paper bags and gold and white striped bags ...

Here is what I have been up to in November. I am glad to see food represented here, because that took up a lot of my time 1+2 Christmas wish list 3 Hostess gift: Handmade Rosemary Almonds 4 Dare to give Thanks: Thanksgiving ta ...