Yellow Cottage Living

Table for 10, Please

One piece of furniture I may have been more excited about than even this house is our new farmhouse table. The two tables we had in our rental weren’t going to cut it in the eat in area of this house. We don’t set up a formal dining area ever. We aren’t those kind of people. Formal dining at our house involves paper plates and paper towels! I don’t own a single piece of china so I don’t need a room to display it. We need to be able to practically live in every ...

Real Life

Hello Neighbors

We have the most beautiful, yet extremely anti-social little neighbors. They greeted me Sunday morning as I left bright and early for church. JB and I watched them graze yesterday afternoon, and this morning, they were out in full force. We stood and watched them for a long time today until ...

Friday Faves

I spend a ton of time swiping through Instagram (IG) in my spare time or in the time I spend avoiding doing things that are much more important! I love IG because it’s mainly pictures and not full of advertisements or shared memes like my Facebook feed seems to be these days. I love some ...

Home Decor, Home Tour

Come Sit A Spell

For years I have dreamed of having a space that was strategically set up as a conversation area. In our house hunting adventures, before we ever were seriously going to buy one, we fell in love with floor plans that offered a hearth room or a keeping room. We loved the idea of having a space ...

Recipes

Friday Fave

We’ve had a long week of cleaning and other life adventures, but I thought I would share something we LOVED this week. I made 2 batches of them so far because we just couldn’t get enough. A dozen suddenly disappeared yesterday and there were only 2 kids at home! I’m not sure ...

Home Decor, Home Tour

Command Center

We’ve had the keys to the Yellow Cottage for a little over a month. Thankfully, every week of those 4 weeks or so was about the same. Swim practice. Unpack. Clean the rental. Swim Meet. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. However, our schedule is starting to pick up a bit and it became very important to ...

Home Decor, Home Tour

We Bought A House

Several months ago, we began this journey to buy this house. I’m still not sure we made the most wise decision in dropping this cash, on this house, in this city, at this point in our lives, but YOLO, right? I’ll share more of the home buying story along the way, but wanted to get ...