Author: Sarah

Hi Friends! How are you? If your kids are in school or you are a teacher, I hope you were able to enjoy last week off. We went south to get some much needed sunshine and friend time, but I'll…

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? I hope you enjoyed the warmer temperatures! We are hard at work on our Trolley House flip and are so happy to have warmer temps while we are working in a house with no…

Hi Friends! As you probably already know, I've been working on doing 40 new experience before I turn 40! The most recent was sleeping in a castle. I searched the world and debated on everything from a full castle stay…

Hi Friends! We have some big news to share with you! This weekend the BYU Survivalist episode that we were on aired! A casting producer reached out to us on Instagram about a year ago to see if we would…

Welcome friends! As you may already know, we purchased a building in Troy in the middle of the pandemic and redid it completely to create a large airbnb space. Within the 1st year, we more than doubled any other airbnb…

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? We had a great weekend at home and I was able to check off the list another one of my 40 new experiences before I turn 40! I went to a ring making class…

Hi Friends! How was your holiday weekend? We spent it on our friends small homestead/farm. We try to go once a year to catch up on life. Chrisie and I have been dear friends for over 16 year. We even…

Hi Friends! I hope you had a beautiful weekend! If you didn't see it already, I'm planing to do 40 new experiences in the that I turn 40, and I'm sharing the adventures along the way! The next one to…

Hi Friends! Happy 2023!!! This month marks our 11th year in business! I can barely believe it and want to say thank you so much to each of you for sharing our business with your friends, buying our furniture, hiring…

Hi Friends! We pray you had a wonderful Christmas last weekend! We hosted Christmas and it was a day filled with family, reading through Luke 2; celebrating our Savior's birth, singing Christmas carols around the piano, laughing until it hurts,…

Hi Friends! Merry Christmas from our 1802 home to yours! This year, I thought it would be nice to show you how I decorated our mantle for the winter season! John loves decorating for Christmas, but I thought I wasn't…

Hi Friends! I hope you had a nice weekend! It was a rough one here with a surprise root canal on Friday morning and the flu the next day. The kids and I are hacking our days away on the…

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? We had a festive weekend with the Saratoga Victorian Walk and the Troy Victorian Stroll! It was so much fun! I'm really excited to share this week's kitchen makeover with you! One thing that…

Hi Friends, How are you? I hope you're back into the routine of normal schedules after a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and that your hearts are full from the practice of giving thanks. It's such a good discipline in the valleys…

Hi Friends, I'm thankful for each of you. It seems surreal to me that I've been writing these weekly blog posts for almost 11 years now. It seems like it can't be true. It seems like I just took the…

Hi Friends! How's your week going? We had a nice, low key weekend. Still working through some health issues, and are hoping for answers this week. Check out this beautiful shot of our Repurposed Idea House from our Open House!…

Hi Friends! How's your week going? We've been dealing with some health issues on the home front, but doing well other than that. My son, Josh, and I were able to go on a day trip to NYC on Saturday…

Hi Friends! How are you? I hope you're all enjoyed the last few weeks of fall in upstate! Remember the lake house I’ve been working on designing for the last 2 years? Well, today is the day that I get…

Hi Friends! How are you? I hope you enjoyed the last peak weekend in Upstate Ny! We had a beautiful weekend opening our home for the first time for tours at our Repurposed Idea House. We had such a blast!…

Hi Friends! I hope you had a beautiful weekend! On this week's travel blog post, I'm sharing a trip that we actually took with a group of friends this summer to the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. If you're thinking…

Hi Friends, We have exciting news! We want to personally invite y'all to join us for Fall Tours of our Repurposed Idea House. We will talk you through the history of our home, give you a tour of the projects…

Hi Friends, How was your weekend! Autumn in NY is my favorite and the leaves are just starting to change. I went on a ladies retreat in the Adirondacks last weekend, and to say it was beautiful is an under…

Hi Friends! I hope you all had a great weekend! We enjoyed a weekend with some church and fall festivities and, of course, enjoyed our new puppy, June! For this week's makeover, I wanted to share a dining room design…

Hi Friends, I hope you had a nice weekend! I feel like the rhythms of normal life are back into full swing over here and I'm really enjoying it. I always crave travel and adventures, but I also love rhythms…

Hi Friends! I hope you had a nice weekend! For many of us here in upstate Ny, last week was the start of the new school year. Our kids have been bounced around quite a bit from private school, to…