by nester | Jun 20, 2014 | quickies
Sometimes change comes in the form of five minutes, random acrylic paint and tacks. I used regular gold thumbtacks for this table, they lay more flat and are easy to push into the surface than my usual favorite: upholstery tacks. But there’s no wrong, you could...
by nester | Mar 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Bittersweet Bread & Wine Desperate Bossypants (2nd time reading it) You’re Made for a God-Sized Dream The Duck Commander Family Wouldn’t it be fun to get all of those authors in one room together?! What’s on your bedside...
by nester | Jun 10, 2011 | about my nest, budget living
I have this weird angled wall in our foyer/entryway area that you see right when you walk in the front door. I knew I wanted something tall, thin, unexpected and inexpensive. And it sat empty for a long time until I saw these two fat stumps with the bark already...
by nester | Mar 7, 2011 | budget living, make this, shop the house, Uncategorized
My stump table isn’t a stump at all. It’s a branch. It’s the only good thing that came from our beautiful back yard tree that fell. I knew I wanted a piece of the tree to make into a table and because of my extreme aversion to do any project that...
by karrie dobie | Nov 10, 2020 | Hosting
This year, we’re hosting Thanksgiving in our backyard. And this year, we’ve used our backyard more than ever. It took a pandemic to make that happen, but I’m so grateful we decided to see our backyard as an extension of our house years ago–it...
