Popularity contest: the top 11 of 2011

Like that Will Smith kid – I’m surprised what found popularity this year. While endless banter about boob lights inflates my comment counts – I think that’s what you’re here for? So, a totally unscientific measure of popularity – just like yearbook superlatives – by number of your hilarious & boobed barbed comments. 11. Playing [...]

Bacon & ugly babies: breakfast reading material

Good morning & happy Boxing Day to my Commonwealth brethren. (Americans – I’m just assuming you’re all freezing in mall parking lot somewhere… strange nation that you are). Hoping the next few days are nothing but firesides, flannel PJs and eating face-first from the fridge – I have simple needs, what can I say. Anyway, [...]

Here, have some secrets: staging a bathroom

After Eights? I’ll eat the whole box. After eight on a Sunday night? A demoralizing time to look up bathroom photography tips. I dread the photo part of blogging – it looks great in real life, and yet I’m never satisfied with my photos. Darren Rowse, help! I spent 6 hours preparing the bathroom “after” [...]

26 good Googles: even weirder than last time

Last time I showed off my weirdest Google search results, I just let you have them. But I’ve realized something: we must provide what the people want. This is a humanitarian crisis. They’re asking, we’re answering. Will you share your wisdom? Life’s biggest mysteries - can you help? ‘does shopping suck sometimes?’ ‘why are pageant moms so [...]

The ugly baby-approved sanity test

I thought the weirdest part of our flipping project would be the actual apartment – unlevel floors, knitting needles in the pipes, 1980s coupons stashed behind mirrors…. These sort of delights. And I was certain we were crazy for wanting to live here – always adding to the chaos. Would I notice the exact moment when [...]

The new home-owner spell: floor planning

30 days to possession By Sunday, I was done with celebrating. We have responsibilities now and it was time to give the (the!) ugly baby our full attention. Paolo lost me. I googled “free floorplanner”, found exactly that – and I was gone. Full focus? Floorplanner. The ugly baby can be anything we want it to [...]