I take four medications each day. My husband also takes a couple. My four year old daughter, Delilah, has on more than one occasion expressed an interest in having her own “vitamins” like ours. I probably don’t need to tell you our medicine is stored high and out of reach. More than once, I’ve explained to her that while the “vitamins”… Read more →
Month: July 2014
Stop Threatening Me With Infertility, Facebook
I don’t know when it happened. Maybe it was when I downloaded the Facebook App to my smart phone. Maybe it was the desk job that I had outgrown and held for far too long. Maybe it was my accidental apathy that happened when I found myself inundated with the heaviness of global current events. But somewhere in between me joining… Read more →
The Art of Preservation with Heirloom Lab
I have a secret. A dirty, awful, shameful secret that makes me cringe whenever I remember that super adult thing that after seven years I still have not taken the time to do. This coming September will mark Scott’s and my seventh wedding anniversary. It will also be the 2,556th anniversary of how many days it has been (and counting)… Read more →
No Baby, YOU’RE a Firework.
Last year, my sister-in-law moved to a small resort town in the mountains outside of Los Angeles. There’s a lake and all the goodness that comes with it. For our second Independence Day in a row, we’ve made the trek to the San Bernadino Mountains — just like I used to to with my parents as a kid — and… Read more →
10 Ways to Live Through Your Remodel (hopefully with a grain of sanity)
And when I say live through the remodel, I mean that literally. We added a master bedroom and bath and figured if we shifted ourselves around a bit, we could just stay home while adding on and save the added expense of renting a part-time shelter. How sweet and naïve. Too many mornings to count I’d barely be taking my first… Read more →
Happy Fourth of July
From our family to yours, happy fourth! Have fun, be safe, keep all limbs intact. Read more →
I can’t stop thinking about dumpsters.
Look, you know this thing with us building a container house is getting kind of hot and heavy when I’m obsessively looking at pictures of people’s dumpster pools. At the moment, I’m romancing the idea of buying a disgusting fixer and then awesomeizing it with some sweet custom shipping containers and creating us a little slice of hillside DIY heaven rather than… Read more →
Textures (Dwell On Design, 2014)
I dunno, I’m just like really super in to textures right now, y’know? Read more →