It's About Time to Start a Resolution

I loooooove resolutions (not that I always keep them, but, hey, I do try). I love the clean slate feeling of a new year and all the promise and optimism it brings. I'm totally the kid who was stoked to get a new school planner and put all my goals and appointments in it as soon as I got it home. With color coding and everything.

This year, my resolutions are:

• more precise budgeting (using YNAB...love that program!)


• not to be lazy when getting dressed for work 


• wash my makeup off before bed (I am the WORST at this)


• host a yard sale (lots of duplicates because of wedding gifts, and Mike is starting to call me a hoarder)


• call my brother and sister more often (at least once a week!)


• Folksy Home

Yeah, that last one is this blog, and dare I say, it's my 'BIG' resolution for the year.

The reason I'm starting this blog is well...the reason most people start these kinds of blogs. I do lots of home-related stuff (at least I think I do) and I want to share my personal experience while keeping a diary to look back on (so when I'm old and gray and have no interest in what I did to that curbside-found-dresser in my 20s I can be comforted by the fact that *if*I did want to know what finish I used, I could look it up). On top of that, I read approximately 1 million blogs every day and it seems like a really great community to be a part of...so much sharing of ideas and constructive feedback and support seems to interlink the blogs I read, and selfishly, I want in!

So a little background: My husband and I met while in grad school in Boston and moved to Bucks County in 2009 after he got a job here. We 'acquired' our dog in January 2010

and got married August 20, 2011 (yes, the Kim K. wedding day).

We love to be home and do home improvement type stuff. We constantly have projects either in the works or in the pipeline. Though we rent, our landlord is tres awesome and lets us paint/personalize etc. We are saving for a home of our own, but we're not there yet.

However, I haven't always been so DIY. Here I am on my prom day (with Dad) before DIY was even a twinkle in my eye:



Neither of my parents are particularly into the DIY scene (even though they are awesome in a million other ways), but I do have a ridiculously creative grandpa, below, who would never buy anything when he could possibly make his own (he has more than 1 plastic bottle part attached to his lawn mower). Maybe that's where it comes from.

As a teenager, I spent a lot of time doing homework, reading teen magazines, planning outfits and downloading from Napster. I kind of had a renaissance when I got to grad school in 2006, started being more conscious of my place on this planet, and taking more pride in intrinsic things, i.e. DIY, baby!

My husband compliments this revelation and often when I am unfamiliar or need his steadier hand, he will jump in and help. He has the experience; here he is working on the canoe he built:

So, long story short, this marks the official beginning of my blogging new year's resolution. Viva Folksy Home. Let's do this!

**btw, that pic at the top is of when Mike and I got back to the hotel room after our wedding. We were just a bit excited to be married :)