On abundance
After the first moving truck full of our apartment’s boxes and furniture was empty and made way for the second truck arriving from our storage units,…
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“Everybody wants to rush through transition like it’s a bad root canal. But transition is a threshold. It’s a sacred appointment—the crossing from one world to…
Excuses, excuses… clearing the clutter
Another excellent article by Christine Kane, “9 Seemingly Logical Excuses for Clinging to Clutter,” has me looking at my guilty feelings about all our stuff. –>…
Be courageous… clear the clutter
“Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement…
Our home: final before and after pictures
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, our future home. Ta da! We have inspections on Tuesday. We close on September 15. (See yesterday’s post for…
Extreme landscaping: before and after
The front and back yards of the soon-to-be-ours house was like a blank canvas just calling for some landscaping. Like most things thus far, I wasn’t content…