I thought it might be good to run away to Carlton Landing with my extended family so we could have some scheduled downtime together. Dad had only seen Carlton Landing once before on a daytrip when Archer was a newborn but this was time for a real actual getaway; he hadn’t been out of town in seven […]

Happy New Year to all of you! I’m excited for 2017 and refreshed from a lovely Christmas break. I’m really convinced that Christmas break is the best thing ever. Plenty of sleeping in, cozying up with family, celebrating Jesus’ birthday, and then the fun of New Year’s. And then all those kids go BACK TO SCHOOL! […]

Design*Sponge was one of the first blogs I ever read, and I couldn’t get enough. I heard Grace Bonney speak a few weeks ago at the BHG Stylemaker event, and was happy to see that she’s as lovely and well-spoken in person as she is online.  They featured our lake house in a home tour yesterday […]

We’ve been at Carlton Landing for several days now, doing what is probably best described as “puttering.”  I’ve had a handful of projects going on in the background at the lake house as we headed towards summer and so I’m all aflutter, zhushing things here and there. NEW DAYBED The biggest thing I wanted done for summer was probably this […]