These days, I’m living by the old adage, Better late than never. And so here we are, almost two weeks into the new year, and I’m finally getting the finishing touches on our look back at Cockamamy Farm in 2016. This … Continue reading
All summer long, Ben has been flexing his builder muscles—literally and figuratively—on the back porch. Two summers ago, when we re-sided the house, he built a 12-feet-wide deck across the back, stretching the length of the house. This summer, he … Continue reading
As you may remember, we have been living these past two years with the cabinets and countertops that came with our farm house. We were assured by our sweet neighbor, Elaine, that these hard-working, never-die cupboards not only served the … Continue reading
Over the last few weeks, I’ve made some progress on outfitting the old school bus as the home office for Goode Girl Media. I’m still on the fence about how to identify my new digs—#buswriter or #GoodGirlMobile or #cockamamyfarm #busstopshere. But whatever … Continue reading
In this season of thanksgiving (by the way, is anyone else totally blown away by how this year has flown by? I think my brain is still in early September!), I have noticed several things around Cockamamy in the last … Continue reading
Recently, the master suite has received its fair share of remodel and furniture updates, thanks our friend Holly and our favorite retailer, Costco. Our friend Holly alerted me to a giveaway of laminate flooring that had been used for a … Continue reading
Since day one, we’ve been talking and daydreaming about outbuildings on the farm—a barn to replace our pile-of-barn (or POB as a friend recently called it), a workshop for Ben so he can move off the back deck and into … Continue reading
The additions of storage and organization in our hardest-working room, the pantry/laundry, continue with a trio of IKEA‘s Billy Bookcases. But, in our ever-cockamamay way, we didn’t use the pieces with their intended purpose. Instead, we performed an IKEA furniture … Continue reading
Waaaaayyyyy back in, well, summer, I fell in love with these gorgeous drapery panels from West Elm. They were on sale and I snapped up enough to dress all the first floor windows in the farm house. The color and … Continue reading
Several weeks ago, our friend Melissa told us about an upcoming sale at Junk Zombie headquarters—an historic stone house about 20 miles from our place. The couple who lives there have made a business out of adopting so-called junk and … Continue reading
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