So....I fully intended for this to be a quick post that was like a paragraph and a few pictures long, and that's it. Something that I could easily get out in a day. Instead I've been adding stuff to it for a week, and it's hella long and has five videos in it. Anyway...hope you enjoy my ramblings. Now let me introduce you to the original intro paragraph of this post....
Before we dive into all the kitchen goodness, I wanted to write a quick post (haha, week ago Ashley was so adorable) about …
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The 12 Most Popular Projects of All Time
Last month marked 12 years since I started this blog. 12 years! Freaking crazy. I wrote my first post on February 13, 2011 without any intention of it becoming a thing. I would have laughed in your face if you told me that 12 years later I would still be plugging away at it and still thoroughly enjoying it. I've always blogged pretty casually, writing a post when I have something to write about and time to write it, and never forcing myself to stick to a schedule or post at a certain frequency. …
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hard is not the same as bad
I'm not quite sure how to come back to a blog after ghosting everyone for two years. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, procrastinating, deciding not to come back, changing my mind, deciding to rebrand first, and then procrastinating some more. I'm really, really good at procrastinating. It's kinda like my superpower.
So what the hell happened?
Well...sometimes life gets messy.
That's not true...if you are alive and breathing then life will be messy. And mine...well, it's been …
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Summer 2019 Recap
Every summer I have high hopes of blogging and doing home projects with all four boys around, and each summer I fail horribly. So this summer I wizened up and just decided not to worry about the blog or getting anything done on the house. If it happened, great, if not, that's fine too. And you know what? Nothing got done, and it was great.
Anyway, now that the kids are back in school (two in elementary school and two in mothers day out two mornings a week) I'm refreshed and excited to get …
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2018 House Goals
I've never been big on setting New Year's resolutions. I don't like making commitments if I am not 100% certain I can stick to them, and New Years resolutions have like a 99% failure rate. Plus I figure that if you need to make a change in your life you should just do it, no need to wait until the new year. But 2017 felt particularly crazy, mostly because I'm the opposite of type A, lack a routine, and have four kids. The combo of those things led to an uphill battle all year, always REacting to …
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10 Tips for Hosting a Successful (and Stress-Free!) Party
This spring Adam and I decided that it was time to start using our home for entertaining. It's something we had always wanted to do, and once our house was safe and functional enough to invite people over we put our plan into motion. The goal was large monthly parties, every single month. That was six months ago now, and we have since successfully hosted six parties. Also? We've learned a lot. So here is my list of my top ten recommendations if you are looking to do something …
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How to DIY When You Have Kids
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that most of my readers enjoy DIY, and also that a lot of you have kids. And as you are probably are painfully aware, those two things don't always go together all that well. So here is a list of things that I do to make DIYing with kids possible. It isn't the kind of list that is full of brilliant tips and ideas that you never thought of, this is just me chatting about what Adam and I do personally. And just for reference, we have four sons ages 7, 5, 2 …
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A new look for Domestic Imperfection
So...notice anything different?! That's right, Domestic Imperfection has a whole new look! Isn't it so pretty and calm? I love it.
I've been working behind the scenes for the last two months or so to get the new site up and running. I've had the old design for over four years now and it was definitely time for a change. Technology progresses so quickly and my website wasn't only outdated visually, it was also a mess on the backend. The new site is up to date and mobile responsive, which means …
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The BEST kids clothes organization tip
Okay, let’s talk about kids clothes organization.
I have four sons that are fairly close in age, which means when it comes to clothing them I pretty much have it made. So far I’ve only had to buy (or am gifted, gotta love grandparents) clothes for #1, and then #2, #3 and #4 all get his hand me downs. None of them are at the age yet where they care what they wear, so I’ve spent something very close to $12 to dress all of them (not including shoes...gah, shoes).
However, keeping their …
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Breezeway Makeover and Family Dinners: No Excuses Edition
For years now Adam and I have said we should start hosting big family dinners at our house once a month, and for years now we have come up with excuses not to. Either we were too busy, or the old house was too crowded, or the new house was too unfinished, or a variety of other things. We ran out of excuses after laying sod a few weeks ago though, and decided that Mothers Day weekend is going to be the start of a new tradition. Once a month, every month, we will have a giant potluck and hang out …
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2016 Year In Review
Alright y’all, here comes one heck of a post. I’ve been chipping away at it for months...it’s pretty much my masterpiece. Enjoy.
2016 was a great year. Adam and I worked on building our house, moved into it, sold our old house for more than we thought we would, had a baby, and generally lots of amazing things happened. That being said, it has been one of the hardest years of my life. Not hard a because things were bad, but hard because it was so crazy busy. Our year was packed full and most …
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Four Boys and a Man on a Mission
I figured that after a month of silence it was about time for an update on the baby and life in general, so here we go. Let’s start at the beginning...the day Abram was born.
I’m one of those women that is chronically overdue with babies and I expected nothing less with this one... I don’t think I even packed my hospital bag until after my due date. Anyway, when 41 weeks (a week overdue) rolled around with no signs of labor, Adam and I decided to go ahead and induce. So one Wednesday, …
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Baby #4 is here, and it’s a…
BOY!
Everyone, meet Abram.
Born 10/26/16
7 lbs 12 oz
20.5 inches
He is the sweetest, most snuggly little thing you will ever meet. I was planning to write a whole post about him and the birth, but the second I started typing three-quarters of my kids started crying, so I will be back at a later time to share more details. We are home from the hospital though and everyone is doing well, just busy adjusting to life with four boys six and under (which is no joke!). Anyway, here …
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The Boy’s Room – Then, Now, and Future Plans
So today let’s talk about the boy's room.
The room is 12 x 15 and will be shared by my older two boys. If you regularly read the blog than you’ve seen pictures of it while under construction...but here they are again (mostly to remind me that we’ve already come a long way and aren't just beginning...because it’s true, but I forget).
We have been in the new house for a little over a month now, and here is what the boy's room looks like today.
It’s nothing …
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How We Sold Our House in One Day
This post started off as a simple “tips to sell your house quickly” post...but then it just couldn’t stop writing and it kinda turned into a brain dump on everything. So keep reading if you want to hear about how we sold our house in a day (for over the asking price!), how much profit we made, the final house tour, and other various thoughts on the subject.
So as you may have guessed from the title, we sold our house is a day, which is crazy. What’s is even crazier is that we had multiple …
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Life and Pregnancy Update
Hey everyone! SO sorry I fell off the face of the earth right after dropping that pregnancy bomb, my computer died and has been in the repair shop. I tried to get it fixed through Apple, but they quoted me $500 to get it working again...which I just can't/won't do. Fortunately I found a local guy to get it working again for about $100...unfortunately it took me a month to get all this computer stuff figured out. But now everything is running smoothly again and I have my baby back. Oh how I …
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Boys + Bluebonnets = Four (obviously)
If you live in the Texas hill country, springtime bluebonnet pictures are a must. They’re practically a requirement to live here...I’ve heard rumors that if you don’t take at least one bluebonnet picture each year they kick you out of the state. Each spring for the 6-8 weeks the bluebonnets are out you can find cars pulled over on the side of the highway and the occupants are out taking pictures in the flowers. Family pictures, kid pictures, senior pictures, dog pictures, and pictures of …
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Round Top Antiques Fair
The weekend before last Adam and I went to Round Top for their giant antiques fair, which is one of the biggest and best in the country.
Last year I went for the first time and was blown away by how insanely huge and amazing it is. It is miles and miles and MILES of fields and pastures, barns and tents bursting with unique old things. It’s kinda what I imagine heaven is like, if heaven was chock full of old rusty crap. Maybe it is, I don’t know. One can …
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2015 Year in Review
(I started writing this post mid-December with the best intentions of getting it out the first week in January, but that obviously didn’t happen. Each time I sat down to collect pictures I got super distracted looking at old photos. I was even going to make a year in review video (I have so many videos!) but I eventually had to tell myself it was never going to happen. Anyway, here is a little bit about our 2015...)
2015 was quite the year for my family. It had wonderful parts, hard parts, and …
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The Four Month Jellyfish
Does anyone remember a few months ago when I was trying to find something to hang above my bed? (I totally don't blame you if you have no idea what I'm taking about.) Well, I ended up buying the jellyfish poster that I loved so much. It's from Great Big Canvas, an online store that sells artwork. They have about a billion different artwork choices and it's completely overwhelming. After looking at their framed and canvas options (which were like $400) I ended up buying a plain poster.
$69 …
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Designing a House
Alright y'all, it's finally time to dig into the plans for the new house! YAY! So this post is going to be a bit of back story on the house, and in the next few posts I'll share our inspiration pics and floor plan. And bear with me because it's kinda all over the place (I'm trying to keep it somewhat short and sweet).
Here we go....
We designed our new house from scratch. As in, here is a blank piece of paper....draw your dream home. Sounds awesome right? It is. Also, it's extremely …
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