what jen does

Life, home, and a little travel

Month: October 2017

  • Project Update: Week 1
    home + reno

    Project Update: Week 1

    I still have a pretty big backlog of posts that could be written – but since we are officially one week into this project for real – as opposed to for fake…. let’s summarize what’s happened. After a series of false starts, the demo officially started last Wednesday! When I had been invisioning this day,…

  • The last 6 months

    The last 6 months

    As I write this, I’m sitting in bed typing and pretty much waiting for the sun to come up. I need it to come up so that I can go and look at the progress that happened on the house while I was at work yesterday. It’s a delicate balance of timing because (1) it’s…

  • Coming back to life…

    Coming back to life…

    That title could be applicable to so many things. But in this case, I’m referencing two. This blog… and this house. After a stressful six months, this project is actually starting. Truth be told we are actually on day four of demo as I write this. There are about a million posts that I could…

  • tomato pie is delicious
    recipes

    tomato pie is delicious

    First of all. I recognize that this just looks like a pile of melted cheese. But – it isn’t. It is so much more than that. It is a tomato pie. Tomato Pie has been sitting on my kitchen to-do list for about a month. Pretty much ever since the moment I knew it existed.…