Category: At Home
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Week One Down!
Today marks my first week down here at the ranch. I’m exhausted, so I’m taking a little break. I thought I’d share some before and after pictures with you. Just for fun. After getting settled in, Emma and I loaded all of our suitcases into the two smaller bedrooms. It’s actually fun having all of…
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I’m Building a Ship
Today I was reminded of a blog post I shared from David DuChemin. He is one of my favorite photographer/writers. His blog and Facebook pages are full of inspiration and motivation. I have a couple of his books, I’m a fan. Anyway, I reposted a blog entry he wrote about building your own ship. Your…
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Lemonade Happiness
This past weekend I spent most of my time packing up our rental and hand painting wall tiles. I’ll have to tell you about those tiles another time. As I was packing stuff up, and showing our apartment to potential new residents, I realized we were leaving the fruit trees behind. Besides our neighbors, I’ll…
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Inspiration Saturday 05/07/16
Happy Weekend!! Don’t you just LOVE the weekends?! This Morning I wanted to share a little ranch love. It’s been a few week since we took a look at what’s going on up there. Here is the dining room! Well, it’s actually what the room looked like in the Zillow posting. Seriously, how old is…
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Inspiration Saturday 03/12/16
Today’s space of inspiration is the Master Bedroom. As I was putting together the post for today, two things happened. One, I could not believe how much it’s changed since we started taking it apart, and two, I realized I don’t really know what I want to do in this space. Here is what the…
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California Sweetness
When I get back from my ranch visits there are certain things I have to do here. One of them is to clean up the tree trunks in the back yard along with weeding around them and picking the fruit. As I was breaking all the new little shoots off the tree trunks today, I…
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Welcomed Bump in the Road
I‘ve been home from the ranch for a day and starting to decompress. I feel so blessed to have a place to leave all the renovation for a time and live in a nice put tother home. Seriously, we can really take a refrigerator for granted. Our last visit was all about finishing up all…
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Liquid Hope
There are just some mornings … When I make the coffee, and it smells WONDERFUL. The sun is peeking up and lighting little spots around the kitchen like promises of new beginnings. The aroma of warm and rich, deep roasted coffee engulfing the kitchen, my brain, my heart. I just stood here and took a…
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Inspiration Saturday 01/30/16
It’s been one week since I last returned from the ranch house. We got so much work done in the last two weeks. We finally removed all the rock, and we only have a couple more tasks to complete before we are completely done with all of the demo! I seriously can’t wait until we…
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Inspiration Saturday 01/02/16
Wow! I just typed 16, as in 2016! I can’t believe the new year has arrived! I have so many plans this coming year, but today I’m gonna share our next room and inspirational images. This post is all about the Den. This is the room just to the left when you enter the front…
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Inspiration Saturday 12/19/15 Shared on a Tuesday!
That’s right! A Saturday post shared on a Tuesday, because I can. Plus, the weekend was nuts, dinners on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, then a brunch on Sunday! I’ve been so busy and so blessed to have people to celebrate with. This has been a fabulous holiday season with friends and family and we haven’t…
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Inspiration Saturday 12/12/15
Featured image: http://www.edinarealty.com/homes-for-sale/MN/St-Louis-Park/55424/4367-Mackey-Avenue-106380694 Over the next few months I want to use my Saturday Inspirations to show you some of the stuff we’re changing at the ranch house and the images that are inspiring me to make the changes. Hopefully, you’ll get to see the end results! Hopefully, I’LL get to see the end results too!…
Multi-ti-purpose Room 