Pixie Dust and Mickey Mail

We recently spent five days and four nights on the Disney Dream and it was just as magically memorable as you can imagine. Though we planned our trip about a month before we set sail, we were too late to join a Fish Extender group. You can read more about Fish Extenders in the post I … Continue reading Pixie Dust and Mickey Mail

Dining Room updates

This project is taking quite a bit longer than originally anticipated. Here's what it looked like before we moved in: We decided we hated the chair rail, so we started removing it. Luckily, I discovered that the original installer never caulked the underside so removing it was pretty easy with a paint scraper and a … Continue reading Dining Room updates

Make your office look and feel more organized in a matter of minutes

Editor’s Note: Here at Dispatches, we are always looking for ways to help our readers do things. For some of our readers, that means helping navigate the working world, for others, it means assisting in the ever challenging question,“what’s for dinner?” For still others, it means figuring out how to balance family life with everything … Continue reading Make your office look and feel more organized in a matter of minutes

Updated Hall Bath

Our hall bathroom was the same color as every other room in our house: GREY. But not just grey, super flat, super grey grey. I like grey when it is more of a blue-grey tone or a nice green-grey, but this color is just very basic and boring and never looked clean. That color plus, … Continue reading Updated Hall Bath

More Painting Hacks

Slowly but surely, J and I are making our house ours. When we moved in last October, the ENTIRE house was this awful shade of grey. It's almost like the previous owners watched a bit too much HGTV and decided that what all 14 rooms and bathrooms needed was one color. But instead of picking … Continue reading More Painting Hacks