About a week before Christmas, I saw this incredible idea over on Today's Nest for a fantastically cool Christmas wreath made from PVC pipes. Sam made it sound so simple that we thought, "Hey, let's make two of those before Christmas arrives! One HUGE one for our barn...
Mackenzie Frames winners
Firs off, let me just thank everyone who entered for such an amazing response! This was by far the biggest giveaway that NOH has ever put on. And many thanks to Mackenzie Frames again for sponsoring these two gorgeous frames! If you didn't win, be sure to hop over to...
Mackenzie Frames Giveaway!!
Thank you very much for your interest and for any entries you may have submitted. This contest is now closed! Now before you get confused, no our little Mackenzie has not already started up her own business. Although that would be nice. But I fear that she's not...
Christmas-ify your walls
Several years ago, we bought ourselves a few art prints on canvas that we never thought about framing because we loved them just like they were. As it turns out, that was a very good thing for us this year, because we decided to take a new adventure into Christmas...

Adding new Christmas decorations
It's a bit hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner. But when you look around in shop windows and sales fliers, there is no denying that the advent season is upon us. Two weekends ago, we heard about a small local hobby market that was offering wreaths...

Reclaiming things for Mack’s room
Mack inherited a ton of stuffed animals from me that have been carried all across the US and now to Germany. Some of them (like the gigantic tigers) are new and others are just loaners (like the huge white polar bear whose name is Norman and has been our marriage...
Getting rid of the media case chaos
When Stefan and I first started dating (a million years ago) one of the first things we bought together was the entire collection of James Bond DVD's. And we didn't even have a DVD player. You remember those days right...when only about one-quarter of the world had...

The new living room and Gapseal
You might recall that I was gabbing about our living room remodel on Thursday. I am happy to say that it is mostly complete (aside from hooking up a few things like our media PC and Wii, and putting a few more things away) and it is fabulous! Now we just need a whole...
Have you missed me?
Wow. Is it Friday yet?? It's been a wildly productive week for me here...but unfortunately not on NOH, as you've probably noticed. It wasn't that I wasn't thinking of stuff to write...I just really didn't have the time. We're in the middle of two projects here. One...
Mudroom shelves make all the difference
Last week I mentioned that we finally filled in the wall cracks where our electrical cables are laid. That little project only took us about 2 hours to complete...but we needed about a year to get around to actually doing it. Please forgive my poor photography below....


