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blue period

Written on May 7, 2012 at 9:28 pm, by

we are smack dab in the middle of a metamorphosis over here. it seems that every single thing in our lives is changing right now. layers upon layers of change.   i’ll post more when i catch my breath….

love note

Written on January 4, 2012 at 2:17 am, by

recently, after a particularly challenging day, i came upstairs to find this love note on the living room door.  i love my husband.

mars

Written on August 15, 2011 at 6:27 pm, by

we’re big on nicknames around here so any name we considered for our children had to come along with some good ones.  we’ve already been calling marvel “mars” and that nickname inspired his room.  we’re almost finished with it.  it was our bedroom until a couple of weeks ago, so it’s taken a major overhaulContinue Reading

cooling off

Written on August 9, 2011 at 5:17 pm, by

work on our casa continues. before koruna was born 2 years ago, my dad came to austin and installed central a/c in the top floor of our house (the part we live in) so that our newborn wasn’t dripping with sweat from day one. since we are now moving our bedroom downstairs in preparation forContinue Reading

bathroom renovation

Written on July 14, 2011 at 9:17 am, by

i mentioned in an earlier post that we would be doing some renovations in our casa. those days have come. our house is pretty quirky. it was built in the 1930s as a duplex with a bottom floor apartment and a top floor apartment. since we bought the house 4 years ago, we have livedContinue Reading

vegetable sticker art

Written on March 29, 2011 at 7:33 am, by

one of ian’s pet peeves is finding those little sticker labels on the fruits and vegetables in the compost heap. i usually try to make an effort to avoid annoying those i love, but for some reason i have a ridiculously hard time remembering to take those damn stickers off. these pictures are of theContinue Reading

out with the old?

Written on March 17, 2011 at 9:00 am, by

i love our old house.   it has all of the good things that come with old houses -  and some of the bad.  i love it all.  our house was built in the 1930′s and living in it makes me feel connected to the generations that lived here before us.    when we moved in, weContinue Reading