August is Done. I DID it!!
August was certainly stressful for me, and for some reason I decided an excellent way to “unwind” after a super stressful day of frantic writing was to start watching the…
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Research Update: $3000+ Worth of Poor Results
A lot of folks ask about my PhD research, which I know I am oddly silent about. It’s just that this is my happy place, where I like to talk…
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How to Refinish Solid Wood Furniture Legs + Arms
We ordered the velvet (yay!) and we’ll be dropping off the chair at Kessels Upholstery soon. But first our little garbage chair needed some love. We stripped and re-stained its…
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Easy and Delicious Meatloaf Recipe
Growing up, the “good” dishes and “everyday” dishes dichotomy was short-lived in our house after our “everyday” dishes proved too cheaply made to actually withstand the everyday, and our sturdy…
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How to Make an Old Fashioned Floor Plan with Graph Paper
I know there are a million online floor plan generators out there, but I like my old-fashioned way: my Mom draws a scaled version on graph paper, then I measure…
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Velvet Volition: Choosing Velvet for My MCM Chair
Hubs and I went to our favorite upholsterer on Monday (the same folks who recovered the gorgeous mint chair – Kessels, for Ottawa readers) and short-listed some fabrics for the…
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