McCLOSKEY CORNER

This Thanksgiving, in addition to being thankful for spending time with family and eating great food, I was thankful for the fluke of an...

This weekend, Timothy and I made a floral arrangement for the dining room. Finally, there’s a small splash of purple in our purple room....

This past week, I took some time off work to finish projects around the house. Only two small tasks actually got done, but at least I had...

The landscaping is going in for the last house to be constructed across the street from us. The end is in sight! We’ve also heard that...

Thursday was a busy day. Laika got spayed. We went to the last of five presentations from solar companies seeking to do a group...

After months of obsessing over landscape design, reading books with gorgeous pictures of plants that don’t grow here, and generally...

The pendant light in our kitchen – our beautiful, unique, mid-century light – has been reproduced. The folks at Satellite did a pretty...

Laika in the wildflowers of the Southwest Greenbelt’s restored blackland prairie, because every girl growing up in Texas has to have her...

In mid-March, I went on a trip to New Orleans for the US/ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) International Symposium,...

Of our trees, the little Carolina Hawthorne budded out first. The leaves start off with a reddish cast and later turn bright green. The...

The backyard landscaping is now on hold until next year, since we recently spent our landscaping budget on a sorely needed new mattress. ...

Yesterday was a beautiful day. After helping deliver the second edition of The Front Porch Flyer, we spent the afternoon in the front...

You may be wondering where we’ve been and what we’ve been up to for the past five months. We’ve got some good excuses for not posting;...

Our grass is green. Really green, especially given the half-dead sod we started with. So, what’s our trick? I have to warn you, it...

A couple of weekends ago, Timothy and I went to San Marcos with our friend Kristen to pick up a lovely vintage pendant light for her...

Does this look familiar? We’ll give you a hint… Yes, we’ve finally installed our mosaic glass tile backsplash. We did do it ourselves,...

Two months after we moved into our house, we wanted to say a few words of thanks to the people who made it possible. Kara, our sales...

We’ve almost finished putting everything away, and suddenly our house has a lot of empty space that needs to be filled with more...

Late Wednesday, for the third time since we moved into our house a month ago, a nighttime thunderstorm brought hail. This storm made the...