goodbye, crappy 12 year old dishwasher that rusted the edges of all of my dishes because the coating was worn off of the racks.....with you...

and i am getting way braver...i actually tried to piece a quilt block. or a whole bunch of quilt blocks.... 16 of them to be precis...

and we are loving how it looks.... the long term plan is to create some built-in shelves on either side of the fireplace.  my desk is o...

for my poor son..... since today is april fools day, i felt compelled to show a rerun of last year's trick that i played on austen......

the weather has taken a bit of a nosedive.  granted, it is still waaaaayyyyy better than it was at this time last year  but we all got real...