Living Full-Time

12/05/2025

Perfect snow day. Tree is done and Hallmark is on tv. .

09/13/2025

I had a ridiculously good onion harvest a couple months ago and thought it would be a good idea to make a giant batch of caramelized onions to use up what I hadn’t used yet. Y’all, I have been peeling and slicing onions for five hours. My fingers have turned yellow. My aged back is giving out on me. And now I get to wait for these damn things to cook.

But at least I’ve given myself a justification for buying this big Dutch oven?

08/04/2025

This is my first time catching my dragonfruit in bloom. Here’s hoping it got pollinated overnight!

07/05/2025

I wish I could transmit the smell of this bouquet. But let’s be honest: I could not be trusted with that technology. There would be so many fart posts.

12/08/2020

Y’all. If anyone needs a perfect Baby’s First Christmas present you need to check out Lacy makes really beautiful hand-bound journals and super cute earrings (for pierced ears, which I do not have) but these book ornaments are all me. I picked up a handful to have around when I need a baby gift. It has twelve pages and sure, the first few years will just be scribbles (and maybe the first year would be a handprint). But I feel like every mom I know would love to have a note a year collected in one of these little ornaments.

11/30/2020

I was soooooo not ready to return to work today, but at least the telework means that I get to go straight from my desk to working on the tree. Just two more boxes of ornaments to go!

11/03/2020

New on the blog: painting horizontal stripes without paint bleed-through. Only crisp lines here!

I've painted striped walls many times in my life and people are always asking how I get them

10/30/2020

Now up on the blog: Smoked gouda macaroni and cheese made in the Instant Pot. It’s finally cold out, which means I want smoked everything and smoked Gouda is one of the easiest ways to get that smoky flavor if you don’t eat meat.

10/10/2020

I’ve had the rest of my Halloween stuff out for a week, but it just doesn’t feel like October in here until I put out the tray of glitter pumpkins.

09/27/2020

I’m giving this eggplant bacon thing a shot. I have no idea how it will turn out, but it sure looks like the real thing.

03/22/2020

These pie plates were labeled “individual-sized.” And they didn’t look too big.
Narrator: they were too big.

03/10/2020

This succulent wall hanging planter looks pretty crappy right now (freshly planted). Here’s hoping it fills out some by Mother’s Day or just mother is going to be very disappointed. in progress