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Knitting Project- Mr. Fox

    I’m so happy with how this turned out. I used a pattern from Tiny Owl Knits and with the help of some youtube and google searching (I don’t really know how to read a knitting pattern!), found my way to the end. I made it for Mikah as a cold weather accessory. My [...]

5 Lessons Learned Building Our Dream Home (and a photo timeline)

Well that went by fast! It’s already February and there are so many things that have happened. But first, a recap on our housing situation and some lessons learned. You can also just scroll through the pictures to see a recap of what our house started out as and what it has become. Since the [...]

Healthy Banana Nutella Muffins

During the chaos of moving homes, I discovered we had … dun dun dun, brown bananas. I did a quick google for a recipe and ended using this one from Skinny Moms Kitchen. Because how could you go wrong with a blog name like that? I ended up subbing the following ingredients out: brown sugar [...]

Why we are selling our house

If I were to file our past 4 months into a drawer, i’d put it under “Making Crazy Ideas Happen”. The first road trip we took (from my last post) was an eye opener into how little stuff we needed to be happy. It was awesome. When we were away, we had more time to [...]

Goodbye House, Goodbye Portland

After some major hustling, we were finally able to leave Portland.  On their own, things around the house and business just started speeding up exponentially with sales & emails. More than anything, I did NOT want to push back our leaving date, so last night I just decided to stay up til 5am to make [...]