Last weekend I made marshmallows. It started as these things usually start – with Pinterest. I found this pin for bourbon-flavored marshmallows, and upon discovering that I had all the ingredients to make said marshmallows, five hours later we were eating marshmallows. There’s only one problem: we don’t really like marshmallows. I mean, we do,Read more
This project has been going on way too long. I’d say…five years? But now that I have time, the house is all organized and I’m tired of listening to the liquor bottles rattle against each other every time we turn on the bread maker because they’re all sitting on the counter, it is SO PASTRead more
If you’re a child of the 90s, you’ll get that reference. If not, well, Google Salt-N-Pepa. Female rappers aside, today I’m talking about Lent. Specifically, what I’m giving up for Lent. Last year I gave up stress. I quit my job and said no to a lot of things. That was a pretty good Lent.Read more
I have no ideas of my own. Seriously. This is why I read blogs. I love to do projects and love to find creative solutions to the problems that crop up while I’m doing them, but when it comes to creating an idea out of my own head and executing it? Not my strong suit.Read more
It took me a couple of days, but I finally got everything unpacked from my trip to the new Goodwill on Columbia Pike in Annandale this weekend. As I was cleaning price tags off of brass animals and trying not to take silver foil rims off vintage barware, I thought I might take the opportunityRead more
There’s a new player in the thrift shop neighborhood. Well, kinda. Goodwill isn’t exactly a new player in the thrift shop game. In fact, they may have been some of the first to come up with the concept of selling donated stuff to make money for charitable purposes. But the latest location in Annandale, VirginiaRead more
So we’re clear, I don’t talk about Young House Love every day. Okay, I totally do. I love their blog, I love their book, I love them. I love everything they do. I met them while they were out on their book tour and they were super nice. John and Sherry both signed my bookRead more
My wife’s favorite restaurant was the Daily Grill in Tyson’s II Galleria. I say “favorite” because it not only served genuine California cuisine like sourdough bread and fresh Cobb salad, but had a bartender who was a wizard at mixing Sidecars just the way Ali loves them. I say “was” because the property managers atRead more
Let me be clear: I’m not normally one to go in for rappers. Over the years the only rap that has ever gotten significant play in my house has been Gil Scott-Heron at one end of the spectrum and MC Hammer on the other. So Macklemore? Not my usual fare. However, I had heard ThriftRead more