Summer’s ending: what haven’t you accomplished yet?
SUMMER’S GETTING CLOSE TO DONE! Have you begun panicking yet? So many spring dreams left unfinished! So much fun left to be had! How’s your list compare to mine?
I’m a fat woman interested in living small. What do I need to know?
I love your posts about tiny spaces and tiny homes and I dream of someday having a tiny place of my very own. As a fat woman, though, I wonder if that would be a comfortable situation. I’d love to go RVing full-time, honestly, I’m not sure if I’d be cozy or cramped.
Three ideas from traditional Japanese homes to simplify your house
Japanophile or no, you’ve gotta love learning about the way other people live — or used to live! — around the world.
Think how different your house must be from the house of a culture much older than yours…
A picnic basket turns into a handy-dandy all-in-one craft station
I found a new-old picnic basket for $3.98 while out thrifting. A little work and now I have a craft center I can pack up and put away at a moment’s notice — and it looks cute both open and stored away!
I need to winter-proof my rental — are tapestries my only hope?
I’m wondering if there are any clever winter-proofing things I can do — I have visions in my head of castle-style wall tapestries in the bedroom to warm the freezing cold wall behind my back. Plausible?
Move without stress: tips from a military spouse
I’ve moved overseas and back, plus across the United States, and it does not bother me. I packed the house and unpacked the house every time by myself — as a military wife, this happens a lot. My friends often ask me how I stay so calm during the entire process of a military move. Here are five tips for a no stress PCS.
How to turn your bathroom cupboard into a cat box
Behind that door is a cat box. This bathroom cupboard didn’t have any shelves inside. So I put a piece of carpet down, added a cat door and the cat box is inside!
Buy a rough and rumble cowboy town on the edge of the wilderness
We’ve had our eye on offbeat real estate porn for a couple months now, but this is the first instance I’ve seen of an entire town getting a listing.
Scenic, South Dakota is on the map west of the Badlands and in a very isolated part of the US. It’s hot in the summers there, cold in the winters, and you’re a long way from anything. But you’d be the proud owner of a very wild-west saloon.