I have been pining over a product called NeatReceipts for a while now, but shied away from the $200 price tag. It is a portable scanner that comes with organizational software that makes the documents you scan searchable. The marketing is towards keeping tabs on receipts and the like (obviously), but I had other dreams in mind. …
Category Archives: My Projects
Fall is Coming!
All of my favorite decor blogs have started posting about fall decor. (I’m guessing because all the catalogs are mailing out their fall issues:) It has really got me in the mood to start dreaming about my fall decor. I haven’t been doing much on the house front lately because I don’t want to spend …
Weekend Project: Air Vent Camouflage
This weekend I worked on taking the air intake vent from this: to this: Before I rearranged the living room to accomodate the new-to-us couches and then the new television, this vent was behind one of our bookcases. Out of sight out of mind. Once it was exposed, the white vent stuck out like a …
Saving Energy
Bradley and I live in one of those neighborhoods where the builder came in, scalped the land and built the same four houseplans on 200+ small lots. For this reason, there are not any original trees around to shade the neighborhood. The only one we did have when we first moved in was a precarious …
Weekend Project: Garage Door Opener
I haven’t had many projects going on lately that were worth mentioning because we have been gone quite a bit and I am trying to watch my pennies on household stuff. But this weekend Bradley and I were fed up with our garage door opener. This is the first place I have ever lived that …