Lucas Corner Farmhouse

I had considered doing a post showing “before” pictures of all the rooms….but I’ve decided to just showcase each room one at a time as we do some work in them. 🙂 That said, here is the Hall Bathroom BEFORE! Hall Bath Before (Listing Photo) Let me preface this by saying…we have a binder where we have pictures, to-do lists, and price lists of projects for the house and at the front of the binder is a simple one year calendar outlining what projects we plan to do this year and when. We only filled in that calendar through June, knowing that things will need to be shuffled, pushed back, moved forward, or may take more (or less) time than we anticipate. The Hall Bath wasn’t on the calendar yet because it was something we thought we might start to tackle towards the second half of this year. However, a piece of the sink piping broke and water covered the (heavily cracked) tile floor and flooded the (older) pressed wood vanity. It was obvious that this wasn’t the first time that the van...

During our first two years of marriage, we lived in an apartment in a  dorm  residence hall with nearly 100 college ladies. Those two years are highly documented through lots of pictures, recipes, and sewing projects on our blog. We loved living on campus and being able to walk anywhere we wanted around our “little” college town. If the weather was nice, we would grab a jacket and walk about a mile to downtown and eat at one of our favorite local restaurants.  For the following year, we moved into a friend’s 2 bedroom 2 bath trailer while she was trying to sell it from across the country. Living there was very different from living on campus! We went from being in the center of a large university surrounded by people all the time to being “in the country” surrounded by cotton fields and horse pastures. We were only about 10 minutes from campus (if that!) but it felt like we were in another town. Walking to eat dinner wasn’t an option, but we did have the conv...

It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been doing a lot of sewing in between growing babies, having babies, and feeding babies. :) Specifically, these two guys: I have a PILE of fabric and a long list of things to sew, but I'm working my way through them! Recently, I sewed this adorable Brindle + Twig Scuba Hoodie (with an altered neck) for C (the smaller one for B is in the pile of fabric to be cut haha!)  I love it! The blue firefighter's print is from Hancock (got it for $3 or $4 a yard) and the red is actually cut from a jersey twin XL sheet I found at the thrift store for $3! Right now, the project that has made its way back to my sewing machine is re-hemming two pair of pants. You know how the bottom of a hen will start to fray, especially in the back?  Well, my father-in-law brought me two pairs to see if I could shorten them about 1/4-1/2 inch to keep them from fraying anymore. Here's what I did... 1. Seam rip the hems 2. Zig-zag stitch (I used th...

It's been a while since I've posted here....but the last few months have been CRAZY BUSY. Between February and August, there were very few weekends where we didn't have some event to attend that somehow related to some major event in a friend, family member, or our life haha! Just in our family of three (now four...), Adam finished his Associate Degree and picked back up on his Bachelor Degree, Cole turned two, and Blake was born! In addition, my youngest sister graduated high school and my middle sister got married! We went to a retirement party, a funeral, a few piano and band performances, honor ceremonies, baby showers (for us and friends), wedding showers, were invited to a handful of other weddings, did some photography for a few folks, went to birthday parties, and wrapped everything up by spending a week at the beach! That said, I think life is starting to get "normal." We'll see haha!

If you were to open my most used cookbook (Betty Crocker's Cookbook...that I snagged from Mom's cabinet when she bought an updated version ...) you would see page 199 --page with the muffin recipe-- is covered in oil, flour, sugar, blueberry stains. It's pretty great. :) This morning, I took the recipe for Banana Muffins and tweaked it to make it a little healthier.  Cole waited (not-so-patiently haha) this morning for them to cool off so he could try one! I used 2 bananas, but if you want an extra kick of banana flavor, use three (and the more ripe the better!) A few things I sometimes do with recipes to make them healthier are: *Use flax seed + water as an egg substitute* (Then I can eat the batter guilt-free!) *Use honey to replace all or some sugar.* *Use coconut oil instead of vegetable oil.* I use  LouAna  Coconut Oil if I don't want a coconut flavor and ALDI or Spectrum Virgin Organic Coconut Oil if I do want coconut flavor added. Ho...

I've been horrible about updating the blog (I do good to post something once every 6 months haha!) BUT my mom and dad gave me a serger for Christmas, so I'm feeling pretty motivated to get some sewing projects done. I'm also feeling pretty motivated to cook (particularly some freezer to crockpot meals to practice on before the baby gets here in June).  So, with those two motivations, maybe I'll start posting my projects and recipes again, right? To get started, here's "Get Well Soup."  Everyone has been sick in our house...church...town....state.... and we only felt like eating lots of soup in our house.  We had some basic ingredients on hand and decided to see what came out...and it was delicious.  It's quite possibly one of our favorite soups actually! Get Well Soup 1-2 lb ground meat (we used venison, but you could use any meat you like) 1 can cream of chicken ~1/2 jar spaghetti sauce 2 chicken bouillon cubes + 1 cup of water 1 gr...

There's an Indian restaurant in town who has a House Salad that is SO GOOD.  I've always referred to it as "Cucumber Salad" but it also has corn and green bell peppers tossed in a thin ranch dressing. I made a variation of that last night at dinner at Mom's house to go with the Lemon Pepper Chicken she made. It was DELICIOUS.  We didn't have a bell pepper on hand, but we had a can of Medium Rotel.  It added a little extra kick to the otherwise cool salad. You can eat this as a side, or pour it over chicken like we did! WENDY'S CUCUMBER SALAD 2 medium cucumbers, diced 1 can yellow corn, drained, with 1/3 cup drained water set aside 1 can Rotel, drained (or diced tomatoes for a milder taste) 1/3 cup ranch dressing Toss the cucumbers, yellow corn, and Rotel in a large bowl.  In a smaller bowl, whisk together the ranch dressing and drained water from the can of corn.  Pour over the diced veggies and toss. That's IT!...