Life in Color — a scrappy Log Cabin quilt block pieced in pink and green prints.

Author: Amber

  • I have one side of my lower floor (because it is so NOT a basement) done just the way I like it: Looking straight at the side with my desk and The said shelf thing. And the desk. The great thing about getting things for cheap at estate sales, like this $25 desk, that I then put about $20 into refinishing (and a lot of elbow grease) is that I don’t feel bad nailing something into the side of it. On the side you can’t see I mounted the power strip so now the desk is…

  • It’s full on snowing here, and I love it! Until ten this morning not a car had been down my street. Ah to live on a street with such homebodies, it’s great! It’s been so freaking cold, barely getting above freezing for days, with out so much as a flake, so this is much nicer. It’s supposed to warm up a bit, and maybe melt some of it, but then we will freeze over night, so it could be a royal mess tomorrow (you know, the day I have to drive to Portland). I stayed up…

  • When areas of my life seem a bit too out of control for my liking, I feel I must take control some where. Most likely something will be cleaned, organized, or purged. This weekend I did a bit of everything and checked a bunch of things off my list, which made me feel so much better. First off all I cleaned up the living room and got everything to right again after the holidays: I include this photo because I don’t think I’ve shown you that I finally made up the green curtains and hang proper…

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