Easter Seals takes Special Kids Backstage

I don’t often feel blue about having a child with special needs. My oldest has cerebral palsy, but after initially being told he wouldn’t survive his birth, we have always felt blessed just to have him in our lives. So I don’t want this to sound like a complaint. It…


Mustache Party {Noah Turns One}

One of my favorite things to do for this site is find really great, REAL parties to share with you. I love a pretty staged set, but parties don’t actually look like that. My friend from college, Mary Katherine, throws the most-extraordinary parties for her three boys and when her…


Little Golden Book Birthday Party

I love parties. I love books. I love babies. And I love anything old or vintage. So when I saw a perfectly adorable Little Golden Book themed birthday party on this blog, I immediately loved the idea for my son’s first birthday party.  I took the ideas from that blog…


Five Fun Ways to Announce Your Pregnancy

Are you expecting? Is someone you know expecting? Today I’m going to show you five ADORABLE ways to announce your pregnancy. Try a Sports Theme. I’ve already introduced you to my creative friend Tisha. When she and her husband announced they were expecting they did it with an tiny black…


How to Install Wainscoting

  I’ve mentioned before that when we purchased our home in 2012, it was incredibly dated. Let me share with you some pictures from our foyer and dining room. Yikes. Within a month of moving in our house, I tore down the horrid wallpaper in our foyer and painted it….




{Small Business Spotlight} Chafunkta Brewing

Every Friday evening, from 6-7 pm, Josh and Jamie Erickson open their “second home” to the public for a beer tasting and explanation of the brewing process for them at Chafunkta Brewery. I first tried Chafunkta brews at a keg tapping at the Barley Oak about two years ago.  Back…


Finding a Beer That Tastes Good

It probably happened sometime during high school or college. Maybe you just graduated high school, maybe you’re attending the all-important first college party. Someone hands you a can. You open the can. You taste the contents of the can. And it sucked. That’s the moment you decided you hated beer….


Why I Homebrew

My wife and I suffer from a shared problem- we can’t stop making things. In the 17 years that we have known each other we have logged many late night hours while trying to “just finish one more thing.” Our poor vehicles have been subject to countless trips to home…