NewlyWoodwards

an unconventional home

Clean that closet!

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I’m coming clean. This is how my guest bedroom had looked for… awhile now. *Gulp* I pulled out the tubs of fall/winter clothes before Jenny and I headed to Minneapolis, and never got around to putting anything away since then. The closet was also in sorry shape. Martha will be ashamed. So will my momma. (Hi, […]

Garage clean sweep

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Do you remember that show on TLC – called Clean Sweep? It felt like this is what we had to do in our garage. Only without the experts and the television crews. And without the money. Yeah… total bummer. If only we were independently wealthy. I have a tendency to throw stuff I don’t want to […]

The dark side of IKEA

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I mentioned that I’ve been to IKEA three times over the past few months in the hunt for the sofa. The photo below is documentation of why it’s a good thing that we don’t have an IKEA closer than 2 1/2 hours from our house. We have to turn the Prius into a pickup truck […]

Freeze it!

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(Please sing the title above to Michael Jackson’s “Beat it.” Ryan and I did. Four times.) We’ve been getting lazy about cooking at home lately. Well, mostly, I’ve gotten lazy. I get home from work or school and I don’t feel like cooking/don’t have anything defrosted/would prefer to go out. So, we go out. I […]

Magazine dreaming

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Do you have lots of magazines around your house, too? I try not to keep magazines once they are read. But, because I get lots of hand-me-down magazines from my mother-in-law (who loves decor more than I do), they begin to pile up before I get to read them. (My mother-in-law pretty much has ever […]