Happy leap day! A bonus day is cause for merriment. Or, in my case, cause for tending to the niggling things. In addition to my massive cleaning spree, I've been slogging through the mountainous mending pile that's been accumulating on my ironing board. You know, the usual: holes in socks and jeans, ripped seams, garments that need to be shortened, curtains that need hemming, etc. etc. Remember the navy and black stripey dress? It just never felt quite right, so I hacked a few inches off ... Read more

Last night, I trapped myself inside of an IKEA Hemnes dresser. I was trying to single-handedly move this massive thing through an extremely narrow space into the utility room but there's this funny little protrusion of knobs and metal casings that I'm pretty sure is part of our ancient heater, and it's located in such a way that I couldn't simply slide the dresser through. All the drawers had been removed so it wasn't exactly heavy, but I quickly became aware of my faulty logic: I propped two of ... Read more

I have been deep, deep, deep in cleaning mode. I've finally fully tackled our heebie-jeebies-inducing utility room and I'm almost done with the rest of the basement. The next step is going through the monstrosity that I call my fabric stash. It's grown quite a lot in the last couple of years, and I've hauled most of the bins upstairs to go through them and mercilessly purge. The Marie Kondo method is firmly entrenched, and I've been asking myself "Does this spark joy?" in rapid fire. I was ... Read more