I’ve always liked having plants around the house. Mine usually live for a few months to a year, and then they die and I replace them. Well, lately I’ve noticed that my houseplants aren’t dying. Right now I have 17 plants around the house, because I keep buying replacements expecting some to die like usual, [...]
This year instead of putting my gardening efforts into another doomed vegetable garden, I decided to plant a butterfly garden. Before hitting the garden shop I printed out these extensive lists of butterfly friendly flowers and shrubs recommended by NC State’s horticulture department. Having a specific shopping list made it so much easier to not [...]
I snapped some photos around my parents’ garden last weekend that inspired me to fill a few pages in my sketchbook. Here are the photographs and their corresponding doodles.
On Friday I stopped by the garden shop to find some citrus fertilizer for my sick looking Meyer lemon tree, and I got sidetracked by shelf after shelf of the sweetest little succulents. I didn’t have an empty planter for them though, so I left them all sitting there waiting for a home. So sad! [...]
I’m back! I’m not quite feeling 100% yet, but I’m back. I was hoping that after having my wisdom teeth removed last Monday I would spend the week tripping on pain killers and filling my sketchbook with all sorts of wonderful new stuff. It turns out that Percocet just makes me puke. My poor, poor [...]
Terrariums are super trendy right now, but (just for the record) I’ve been on a terrarium kick for a while. In first grade I grew bean seeds in huge glass jugs for my science fair project, in college I planted a terrarium in a wine bottle, and for our wedding 5 years ago we made [...]
In spite of their rather unfortunate name, I just love Pussy Willows. My grandmother had a huge one in her front yard when I was a kid, and the fluffy blooms are so unusual and so soft. I’ve been keeping an eye out for one of my own, and I finally found them at Trader [...]
We’ve been sneak peeked! The folks at Design*Sponge contacted me a few months ago about featuring our home in one of their Sneak Peek posts, so naturally I freaked out (in a good way). I posted some of my photos that they didn’t end up using below, but head over to Design*Sponge to check out [...]
Here’s the recently repainted office! The walls used to be yellow and orange, but I think I prefer it when the items in the room are the focal point rather than the paint colors. So, I embraced my boring-paint-color-loving side and painted the room light gray. I like it about one million times better now (give [...]
We have a roof over our kitchen. Yes, you read that right—a roof. It’s one of the first things you see when you walk through our front door. I’ve never shown you the roof before, because it’s not necessarily my favorite part of our house. At first I hated the roof with every ounce of my being [...]