Yesterday during our visit to Rüdesheim we wandered by a pretty good wine store called Dr. Nagler. We've bought many bottles of their Reisling over the past few years and also ate at their restaurant over Christmas. Very decent food and not bad prices either,...
A decorating idea straight from your garden
I found this idea while browsing some of my mother-in-laws old garden magazines and really thought it was a very nice idea for a summer party...and may have to use it for our housewarming party if I have the flowers and such around. What they've done is fill a bowl...
It’s a good thing we have a big place
We are starting to plan the first somewhat major party to be held at our home in the next year or so. We had Stefan's 10 year high school class reunion here - but that turned out to be about 10 people including us. That party did require a little bit of planning but...
Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 5
nespresso We just got a Nespresso Le Cube and we love it. We have avoided drinking a cup or five of espresso every night but absolutely love the convenience, easy clean up and easy of having a machine like this which uses little coffee tabs. And I think that when...
Inexpensive & creative garden signs
While going through old magazines, I came across this idea which I LOVE: cut pieces of thin wood boards into small pieces, write the names of the herbs, fruits and veggies they will mark, decorate them with twigs or other things if you like (as they do with the...
Something else to build
Whenever we go to visit Stefan's parents, we get to glance through the various magazines that they have bought in the last month or so. They usually have them in the living room and there are plenty of great gardening and food magazines which I can't resist looking...
Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 4
Well it's nearly Thursday and Thursday is the day of searches on our blogs. We will be going out of town tomorrow to go see Aerosmith and celebrate Stefan's birthday (his dad, grandmother and my mom also have birthdays this weekend). But I've been having so much fun...
Fabulous Farmhouse Searches
If you read our Self-Reliant Yuppies blog, you probably noticed that we are going to be starting a new weekly feature (at least I'll be trying lol) featuring the 5 top searches from the past week. We don't really get too many strange ones but I always do find them...
Eureka, the granite man has come!
It is indeed a good day on the farm. Not only do we have blue sky and sunshine just in time for our party tomorrow night, but the granite man, Dino, has come and delivered our countertop. There has been a few weeks of delay and even though Dino called on Wednesday to...
More window frosting
I actually did this little project a few weeks ago but I just kept forgetting to post anything about it. Much like the windows in our downstairs bathroom, we used Amorf Frost frosting foil from IKEA to cover these windows. It's a simple enough process: Scrape the...


