As you may have read, we were recently in Berlin and we stayed in a gorgeous hotel. We spent nearly 3 days in the hotel, so I got to know our room pretty well. And there were some design elements that were so smart, regardless of whether you're in a big house or a...
Somehow, when we've got a lot of pressure and deadlines to meet, we work a lot more efficiently... Several days ago, I started transplanting the first of the many seedlings we started weeks ago -- which had grown into some lovely little starter plants. I have to admit...
Hello. My name is Tiffany. And I am addicted to china & glassware. 🙂 It all started back in 1998 when I left Virginia (home after we moved from Texas), to go off to college at the University of Miami. I moved into to my very first apartment in Miami, all by...
It's no secret by now that we are moving to Berlin and that we plan to move into an apartment in the city to do the whole "city living" thing for a while. It's clearly a pretty major change of lifestyle for us (and some probably think we're nuts -- who knows, we might...
We have had a couple of extremely productive days around here. We've built shutters for the guest house (which we've been meaning to do for a couple of years), we closed off part of the outdoor patio to make it look nicer (almost something we've talked about for a...
Happy Friday to you! I finally got around to spraying my seedlings with neem oil yesterday and the whiteflies definitely seem to be retreating a bit. I'm extremely happy about that, and hoping to get a lot of the seedlings in the ground in the coming weekend. I've...
You no doubt noticed the frequency and perhaps even the increased urgency around our house lately when it comes to getting rid of things. What you may not know is that we have now been living in Germany for almost 10 years. Yep, as of July 28th, 2012, Stefan will have...
As you've probably noticed lately, our mindset about clearing the stuff and junk out of our house that we haven't been using at all in the last 6-10 years has really clarified. If you'd talked to us a few months ago, you would have found out that we had dreams of...
Happy Friday to you! I missed you and your gardens last week. Since we were on our way to Berlin, I figured one week off from gardening could do us all good! Thankfully, my seedlings were forgiving about us being gone for a few days and they are still growing like...
My husband and I have been together for 12 years -- and in that time period, I have to admit that we have rarely gotten rid of things. Instead, we were just constantly adding to our collection. When we moved from Florida to Frankfurt, we got rid of a few things that...
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