Fall is on the way!

Sage: one of the only survivors

Fall is by far my favorite season. I'm so excited to see the leaves changing color, feel the air getting cooler. Fall is also my opportunity for a second chance with my garden.

Windowsill Garden

I've started my windowsill garden!

Sitting Pretty

Here it is: our completed dining room! I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

Painting

That's right, we've been painting! Well I've been painting. The Mr. Helped out with the tape where I couldn't reach.
I get very excited to do projects on the weekends and forget that he needs a break sometimes. Last week he was especially busy so I'm very grateful he helped me today. There are times I ask for help just for the sake of doing something together, and times when I just want to avoid a task (I hate washing dishes!). But this was one project I really could not have done with out my favorite fella's help because I am just too short. I hope that sugar cookies were a good "thank you!"

New House Part 1

Here's the first little taste of our new house. We've been pretty busy lately so we haven't really finished unpacking so I'll be revealing it a bit at a time.

Thrifting!

Last weekend I did a little thriftig & I'm very excited to share my finds!

New Year, New Home!

We have moved! I'm so excited about our new place. It's bigger, quieter & in a better location. & best of all I have a little bit of a yard and a porch to do a bit of gardening. I'm looking up seeds but since it's still winter I'm mostly focusing on making the inside of my house look nice. We'll have plenty of garden posts starting in the spring! My New Year's resolution is to try to post more often even though I'm working now which keeps me pretty busy. Pictures of the new place soon!

Holidays With My Hubby

I just wanted to make a quick post to share a holiday tradition my husband and I started on our honeymoon. We are both opposed to collecting knick-knacks and other junk, stuff that will just sit around. We both noticed that many of our family members like to collect things, my dad in particular builds up one big collection after another. I like his collections, and my grandmothers but I just can't see us doing the same. We have so much stuff already, we don't need to spend money or space on more just for the sake of having it. But there is one thing we thought of that we do need lots of, and the more variety the better (at least in my opinion): Christmas tree ornaments! So now anywhere we go in our travels we pick up an ornament. It's a nice way for us to look back and remember where we've been and I think it'll just get more fun as time goes by.

Moving and Plotting

We are getting ready to move very soon but as far as I'm concerned, it couldn't be soon enough. I was very happy with our apartment as our first home together but it's charm (or lack there-of) has worn off. I'm tired of our neighbors, I want more space and most of all I want to garden! Okay I also want to not pay $3 per half a load of laundry in a tiny coin operated washer and dryer. We went to look at a duplex yesterday and we really like it. It isn't perfect by any means by it's much larger than what we have and for the same price. There's not much of a yard but also much more than we have now which is nothing! And so begins my adventures in gardening in a small space. Pros: Lots of windows, both East & West Nice sized porch on the East side Small plot of land I can garden The downside is that the duplex is on the North side of the building so my little garden plot will be along the North wall of the house. I'm trying to research plants that will do well in a small plot with less light. I'm planning to fill up the porch with container plants so for now I'm researching fruits and veggies that will do well in containers and envisioning how I'll organize everything. Advice is welcome as well as book recommendations. I'm reading Back to Basics now because that's what we have already but it only mentions gardening as a small topic among many.