Ok, guys, I am really proud of myself for this one. I built a table. A serious, giant dining table. And it actually turned out well. Anth...

We're slowly starting to get more furniture to fill up the house, and I built my very first piece! This coffee table (that I spotted her...

I just got a Silhouette Portrait. It's my new toy. I've been seeing discount packages offered on various blogs for a while now and h...

Back in May when we went to the UK , we had a cookout at our friends' flat. We used some fresh herbs they had growing out back, and I de...

Our condo's laundry room (or more accurately, tiny laundry closet ) has been in sad shape for quite a while. We had a giant hole in the ...

I've been pinning away on my home decor projects board . The problem is, for about 99% of them, I want to do the projects in our new hou...

In general, we try to be diligent about minimizing our impact on the environment - reduce, reuse, recycle, and all that good stuff. But I h...

If you follow me on Instagram ( @jdeares ), you may have gotten a sneak peak of this project over the weekend. I submitted a pic of it for A...

I made a Christmas ball ornament wreath today. This should be a really simple project. But I didn't buy nearly enough balls and had to ...

Our Christmas decorations are mostly from the year we graduated from college and moved in together - we bought an apartment-full of decorat...

I saw a dog paw print Christmas ornament on Pinterest a couple of months ago and thought it was such a great idea. But since then I've b...

Have you decorated for the holidays yet? I like having Thanksgiving so early in the month - I feel like I'm much more ahead of schedule...

What do you do with your foreign coins? We never really figured out what to do with them - they just sort of turn up randomly around the hou...

Why hello, hello, and happy Monday to you! How was your weekend? Ours was pretty busy - we had an event with Bryan's company Friday...