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Kitchen Plans

Hey! Guess what? I couldn't resist any longer and I dove head first into my next project: the kitchen. Here are a few things you should know about me and my kitchen before I begin. When we first started house hunting and we met our house for the first time I was totally in love...except for the kitchen. It had a poor layout and a copper tile backsplash. Mostly the layout bothered me. It's READ MORE
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Pro Tip : Don’t Use Drano

Hey guys, here's a nice little PSA from yours truly. If you have an old house, with old pipes don't use Drano unless you'd like a new kitchen ceiling. You can thank me for that little tip later. Here's the deal. Our bathroom sink was missing the drain stopper, I've tried to replace it but the part that connected to the sink was broken (I know, I'm getting really fancy with my plumber lingo). READ MORE
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Mud Room Makeover

The next item on my list of a million things to get done before the baby gets here is to organize the "mud room" off of the back kitchen entry way. We've been pretty much using this area of the house {before picture} as a drop everything space, and as a room to store all our empty beer bottles (at least Jeff has as of recently.) In our old place we had a chalk board wall, and I had been missing having READ MORE
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Cleaning up the Coffee Zone

So I have a list about a mile long (not kidding) of all the things I need to get done around the house before the baby comes. One of them being to organize and clean up the kitchen. I took on a small area of the kitchen this weekend and updated our coffee nook. This nook is an odd space in our house, it used to be the entrance of the back stairway that connected the 2nd level and the kitchen. It READ MORE
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D-Lish Dish: Pears and Pork

I found this super easy and super delicious recipe on epicurious.com the other day. If you like Pears and Pork, you will love this.A simple coating of olive oil, thyme and garlic start things out.After coating your thawed pork with your olive oil mixture, all you need to do is brown up your pork and then brown up your pears. Put them both in a baking dish and bake. EASY!!You end up with a super pretty, READ MORE
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