By Emily on January 31, 2011
Like so many people, I was feeling good vibes from the whole 2011 thing. Feeling like this year, I’m going to focus on doing a lot of the things I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. Like this is a year for change. To feel challenged. To pay more attention to how and [...]
Posted in new house, photography, seasons, The Purge 2010 | Tagged around the house, January, resolutions, to do list
By Emily on December 20, 2010
As the year starts winding down, and the influx of new presents is just around the corner, my mind floats back to January – when I was starting to drown in stuff in my little apartment, stored in boxes at my parents’ house, in the back of my car. I decided that 2010 would be [...]
Posted in moving, new house, The Purge 2010 | Tagged cleaning out, donating, organization, simplify101
By Emily on December 4, 2010
It’s been a long week, so I am looking very forward to a cozy weekend. Lots of things I want to do, both around the house and around town, but today I’ll get a coffee and wander a craft market, then come home and do some cleaning and tidying and organizing. I’m way overdue. (It [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, new house, seasons, The Purge 2010, what I'm listening to now | Tagged Christmas music, craft market, weekend
By Emily on November 30, 2010
Goodbye to this year’s National Blog Posting Month. I actually managed to post something on every day in November! I can’t say that all of the posts were beautiful, or super thoughtful – but it was a good exercise. It got me writing and thinking, feeling inspired and getting a lot quicker at getting the [...]
Posted in blog, getting crafty, Montana, seasons, The Purge 2010, things that make me smile | Tagged December, holidays, NaBloPoMo, snow
By Emily on November 25, 2010
For the past 24 days, I’ve managed to post something every day – something I read, something I saw and liked, something that got me thinking. Something. It hasn’t always been easy; I abandoned my calendar with ideas somewhere along the way. But today, when the theme seems so obvious, is probably one of the [...]
Posted in seasons, The Purge 2010 | Tagged consumerism, gratitude journal, holidays, thanksgiving
By Emily on November 17, 2010
Since I seem to be coming down with something, I’m going to make this quick. Between coming back to work, baby shower prep, unpacking (hasn’t happened – suitcases exploding in the living room), and everything else, I’ve been feeling really overwhelmed by my house, currently beyond chaotic. This caught my eye on Amazon. Maybe I’ve [...]
Posted in books, new house, The Purge 2010 | Tagged amazon, books, clutter, house
By Emily on September 19, 2010
Today has been a low key Sunday – just what I needed after a very busy week. I’ve been cleaning and organizing around here, reading the paper and this week’s Blogging Your Way assignments, and listening to the Americana Music Awards Sampler. At the moment, it’s still a free download on Amazon. – A few [...]
Posted in blog, new house, The Purge 2010, what I'm listening to now | Tagged Americana, Blogging Your Way, Darrell Scott, music, Sunday, The Avett Brothers
By Emily on June 17, 2010
I’ve been sort of MIA in life lately, consumed with cleaning at my new house and getting everything prepped for living – and for the painters. It’s going well – we are almost done cleaning walls, we vacuumed and RugDoctored like mad and did my loveseats with the upholstery attachment while we were at it. [...]
Posted in moving, new house, The Purge 2010 | Tagged before and after, house cleaning, moving, new house, photos
By Emily on May 2, 2010
It’s that time of year again, time to think about leases ending and moving one more time. As my couple of loyal readers may recall, I started asking a lot of these same questions this time last year. Namely, -why are places so expensive here when wages are so low? -how can the listing say [...]
Posted in Missoula, moving, The Purge 2010 | Tagged apartment, home, moving, new house
By Emily on April 1, 2010
The spring cleaning bug is officially here. And this year, I decided to actually do something about it and not just have one semi-motivated day in which I do some cleaning and then get distracted by reading magazines. Quite possibly even magazines about organization, for a bit of irony. So, with a little prodding, I’ve [...]
Posted in moving, The Purge 2010 | Tagged cleaning, clutter, home, moving, organizing
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
