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    Curved Fieldstone Wall: Part 3, Progress Section 1

    August 25, 2025 /

    Progress feels good, and we have made significant progress on building Section One of our curved fieldstone wall. If you missed Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, those are a rockin’ good time. Here’s the section of wall that we are rebuilding. With all of the rocks out, that area looked kind of weird. Scratch that. There was no “kind of.” It looked flat out weird. Best we get to remedying that. I started by repointing a section of the front porch foundation that we exposed during the wall demolition. Not only does this foundation need repointing with lime mortar, but this way I’ll be able to secure…

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    August 22, 2025 /

    Hello, hello! Welcome to this week’s Happy List. I am absolutely delighted to see you here. This week on the blog I shared the second installment in our fieldstone wall series. How many installments will there be? I have no idea. I wish I could tell you though because that would mean we were close to being done. Ha! I also shared some of my favorite fall crafts. I know, I know. It’s August. But the early bird gets the pumpkin spice. As always, thank you for being here. I hope the Happy List is a bright spot in your day and leaves you feeling inspired and encouraged! Part of…

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    August 20, 2025 /

    Most of us get the itch – the crafty one – and need to create something, anything! Today I’m rounding up 13 DIY fall decor ideas to make when you’re in the mood to be crafty. I’m sharing these now because I know as soon as Starbucks releases their pumpkin spice latte later this month some of you will ditch summer faster than a child’s ice cream cone melts on a swelteringly hot day. (P.S. Never order a little kid a cone. Always a dish of ice cream. Always. Thank me later.) These 13 DIY fall decor ideas are not listed in any particular order. I wouldn’t be able to…

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    Curved Fieldstone Wall: Part 2, Demo Section 1

    August 18, 2025 /

    In case you missed Part 1, we are building a curved fieldstone wall. Or, perhaps, it is more accurate to say we are rebuilding a curved fieldstone wall. Today’s post is all about demoing the first section we are rebuilding. This section of wall connects to the front porch and serves as a retaining wall for a flowerbed. Demo is supposed to be the easy part of any project, right? Hahahahahaha. Easy might not apply to concrete. Or maybe easy just doesn’t apply to anything we do. Once again, the hammer drill with a chisel attachment was our MVP for taking down a stone wall, but we did use a hammer…

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    Happy List: #400

    August 15, 2025 /

    Welcome to the 400th edition of the Happy List! Should we celebrate with cake? Perhaps cake is not needed when you’re surrounded by sweet friends who stop by weekly to check in and read the Happy List. Thank you for being here and for giving me a reason to keep compiling the list for 400 weeks. Something that didn’t take me quite 400 weeks to install, but close to it, was curtains in the Carriage House. I shared pictures of those on the blog this week. Also, and this is big, I shared the new project we are starting on. We haven’t tackled anything that really affects curb appeal in over…

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    Curved Fieldstone Wall: Part 1, The Plan

    August 13, 2025 /

    Drumroll, please! Our next masonry project will be to rebuild a curved fieldstone wall in our front yard. Who’s excited for this one? *raises my own hand* I am excited for this project mainly because this fieldstone wall has become a major curb appeal issue, and not in a good way. Remember the children’s rhyme about Humpty Dumpty? Now imagine Humpty Dumpty sitting on the wall, and the reason he fell off was because the wall collapsed under him. That’s the sketchy situation with the wall in front of our house. Most of it is a low, curved fieldstone wall that is only a couple of feet high. There is,…

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    Carriage House Curtains For a Long Narrow Space

    August 11, 2025 /

    I recently added new curtains in our Carriage House to break up the long narrow space, and I’m going to have to file this under “things I should have done a long time ago.” Talk about a change for the better! Our Carriage House is roughly 9-feet wide by 30-feet long. Have you ever decorated a tunnel? That’s the situation with our Carriage House, and we have to fit a bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, and an office into the space. I have received many well-meaning suggestions to add wallpaper or wainscoting to this space to give the walls interest. However, because it is such a long space, those options will cost…

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    First Week of August 2025 Break

    August 4, 2025 /

    Heads up that I’m taking a blog break this first week of August. My kids start school in about three weeks, which is wild to me. I swear I just gave birth to them, and now one of them is heading off to college and the other will be a sophomore in high school. It doesn’t seem like it has been that long, but the additional grey hairs on my head suggest otherwise. Rude, those grey hairs. Anyway, if you’d like a little something to read this week while I’m away, check out one of these blog posts. You can also follow along on Instagram to see what we’re up…

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    Happy List: #399

    August 1, 2025 /

    Hi! At the risk of stating the obvious, it’s August already. I’m going to need summer to slow the heck down. My kids start school this month, and one of them is leaving for college for the first time! Big changes ahead for us. A smaller change that happened is we built new outdoor stairs. I shared that reveal on Monday. I hope you had a chance to check them out. I also shared my recent media diet with you, including the books I’ve read, the websites I frequent, and my favorite podcasts. As always, thank you for being here. I hope the Happy List is a bright spot in…

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    My Summer 2025 Reading List

    July 30, 2025 /

    Some of you wonder if I ever relax. I can assure you, it happens. The last time was just last week. Or was it last month? I’m kidding. It was last year. Joking aside, one of my favorite things to do is read. I almost always have my Kindle on me if I leave the house, unless it’s my once-a-week trip to the grocery store. Anyway, I thought I’d share my summer 2025 reading list with you. As an added treat, I’ve also included some of my favorite websites and podcasts on this list. However, I have zero recommendations for things to watch unless you want a list of shows…

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