The roof is up! Remarkable what a shiny new top will do to a house. Our hope was to find tin resembling the color of tarnished copper turned green (reminiscent of Paris rooftops). No such luck so we went with a light blue instead. Check it out – a sky emulating lid; house wrapped and ready for […]
Category Archives: Will Drink the Young Wine
Dance Tour of Denver
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
These courageous dancin’ fools are taking over venue floors across Denver for one week proving that every night is a good night to dance. Here’s the lineup for those who want to join in: 7 nights! 7 different venues! 7 different styles! All the dancing! Warm up event – Saturday 8/17 Mile High Soul at […]
1969 Rancho Elrae
Sunday, August 11, 2013
This 15 1/2′ vintage camper trailer has been sitting untouched in the front yard since February. We bought it in anticipation of our tiny house build in WV with a plan to cozy it into a “guest home” type scenario to make our woods more visitor friendly. It’s a pretty daunting project…hence the not starting […]
Seed Stash
Saturday, August 3, 2013
This year’s garden had a lot of volunteer crops make an appearance – lettuce, kale, radish, carrots – completely unintentional though I’ve recently learned lettuce and kale when left to bolt and flower reseed themselves. The carrots were crap to eat but the lettuce was a nice welcome as it came much earlier than anything […]
Grass Clippings
Monday, July 1, 2013
I’m no floral arranger but looking around the yet to be mowed fields on the WV property I found so much inspiration for unique bouquets of wild grasses and plants. Never mind the wild daisies and tiger lilies I was drawn to the different pods and colors of the variety of grasses and thought I’d […]
A Very Good Place to Start
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Before I forge ahead with our West Virginia home story, I’ll take a few steps back and show the beginning stages of “building” – which look more like stages of destruction but, hey, creation from chaos. There were originally three houses on the land Tony shares with his brother and when they first bought the […]
Demolition Discoveries
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
I’ve taken a two week vacation to help Tony begin renovations on our house in West Virginia. We originally wanted to start from scratch (using reclaimed building materials from the house already on the land) when it started to make more sense to keep the frame of the house we were dissecting for materials and […]
Away With the Fairies
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
My sister recently turned me on to the concept of a fairy garden – miniature plots of small plants and hand crafted shelters – the green thumb’s dollhouse. Impossibly shaped succulents, twig-fashioned furniture, the ambitious water feature are meticulously arranged at the foot of a tree or in a basin with the hopes of luring […]
A Book By Its Cover
Sunday, January 6, 2013
I’m on a recent kick of giving experiences for gifts…which sometimes entails delivering a gift card for a future experience. But this time instead of the traditional gift certificate nestled in an envelope, I thought it better suited the gift of an evening of drinks and eats at Denver’s Williams & Graham – a sultry […]
Let’s Begin Again
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
In lieu of a holiday party, we decided to go the non committal route and have a party the day after the world was due to end. That way our friends’ last thoughts of us as they burn furniture for heat would be that we at least made an attempt to get together during the […]