Hi! No new projects yet, but here’s some new things that are on the walls.

Remember this great mirror that I got from my dad over the summer? A few months ago I found a copy at Goodwill. I already have one that’s special, but I just couldn’t resist.

They’re not exactly identical, but pretty close. The new one is a bit larger, or else I’d put them next to each other in the bedroom. Instead, I left the special one down stairs and brought the new one upstairs and hung it in the bedroom. Yay! And yes, that is a piece of tape on the corner, it needs to be fixed a little so right now it has some tape.

Next up is this great taco menu print. Just kidding! It’s really then menu from my favorite favorite taco place, Taco Loco in Philly. They serve the best tacos I’ve ever had out of an RV that’s parked on the corner of 4th and Washington in South Philly.

We were there a week or so ago, and I brought home a menu. After I looked at it I decided it was perfect and beautiful, especially since they printed a hard shell taco and then crossed it out and wrote ‘we only serve soft tacos’. It’s perfect. I can’t wait until we redo the kitchen and it has a permanent home.

Best yet, I got these amazing English setter prints for Christmas from my mom. They’ve been in our  family for years, but now that we have an English Setter, they’re appropriate/perfect.

Speaking of English Setters, here is ours all foamy and wet in Philly. He gets carsick.

Yay!

Happy New Year! We had a great holiday season and new year here, and it’s totally time for an update. Here are some things that have happened:

First, we moved the plants from the porch into the house for the winter. It hasn’t snowed since that weird freak storm we had back in October, but it’s still been cold. Next, we got a new TV! It’s nice and flat and has the internet on it, Alex is so happy. We donated the old one. Third, I got a sewing machine for Christmas from Alex and am making a lazy person quilt:

Fourth, check out the sweet Eames rocker my dad Santa got us for Christmas:

From another angle:

Also note the funny bunny lamp behind, a gift from my step-grandparents.

In other news, the puppy is getting huge! He was 6 pounds when we got him (when he was 10 weeks old) and now he is 23 pounds at 21 weeks. He is almost as tall as Puff, is almost completely house trained, and a really good little guy. I sure am glad we have him!

And don’t worry, Puff is getting along with him now, almost.

Happy new year! Eventually I’ll post about  some other things.

Hi you guys! Look it’s December! How did that happen??

So my laptop died and then I got a new one (thanks, Black Friday internet sales on Thanksgiving), and haven’t been doing much house stuff thanks to this little jerk:

I’m dying to paint the upstairs stairway area or to take down the hidden secret wallpaper underneath the crappy paint in the guest room, but this guy can’t be left alone for a second. The last thing that needs to happen is for him to get into a bucket of paint or eat a mouthful of lead paint covered wallpaper.

Anyway, so we got some Christmas lights up. Next up is getting a tree, which we were going to do today but Alex came home late and then we put up lights instead. We don’t have a big ladder so we can’t put up serious lights like our neighbors do, but leave us alone we’ve only lived here six months. Six months!

I’ll post pictures of the tree when we get it up, and then some new sweet thrifty finds I’ve picked up in the last few months eventually. See ya!

PS look at Puff standing all proudly on the front steps.

Did you guys get hit by this hurricane? We did. So many trees fell down.

We lost electricity for three days, and internet for four or five. Luckily we were fully prepared, mostly.

My little sister was visiting, and she and I went to Goodwill to buy board games. We got Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, and Pictionary. We played games all day long on Sunday during the hurricane, then played some more on Monday and then cleaned up the yard.

We had a lot of candles to keep us from being in the dark all night. Always be careful with candles, someone down the street from us burned down their house leaving candles unattended.

This tree was blocking the road for three days. We had a ton of leaves and sticks and things to clean up. While cleaning up we decided to build the fire pit. Yay!

Don’t worry, we are safe. I hope you all survived the hurricane safely!