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Sycamore and Slate

Building Our Farmstead - From the Ground Up

Sycamore and Slate Farmhouse
Farmhouse, Farmstead, Forever Home, Home Building

House Build Week 86-90

January 2, 2020

Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a great time ringing in 2020! Listen, December was quite a month for us. Not only have we been doing all the holiday… [Continue Reading]

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House Build Week 81-85

November 25, 2019

Major updates abound this month! The theater room got painted and carpeting, and I think this room will be a family favorite. My mom always says that she will be happy to come live in… [Continue Reading]

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Farmhouse, Farmstead, Forever Home, Home Building

House Build Week 80

October 22, 2019

I just want to start out by saying I NEVER thought we’d get the whole way up to a week eighty on progress updates, but here we are! 🙂 And plenty more weeks to go,… [Continue Reading]

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Farmhouse, Farmstead, Forever Home, Home Building

House Build Week 75-79

October 15, 2019

The past few weeks have been a series of EVERYTHING happening at once and then almost nothing happening for days on end. The main change inside was that the kitchen cabinets were installed. Our cabinet… [Continue Reading]

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Farmhouse, Farmstead, Forever Home, Home Building

House Build Week 67-74

September 10, 2019

Since I last posted about our farmhouse’s progress, my family suffered the devastating loss of my father, which was such a hard, sad, life-altering roadblock for us. It really slowed things down on the house… [Continue Reading]

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Rustic Wedding Gift Ideas

July 6, 2018

Wedding season is upon us!  Most of the time, the happy couple offers up a registry with all the things they really need so guests won’t have to guess about what to get them.  Sometimes,… [Continue Reading]

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When my father died two years ago, he left behind many things – family, friends, memories, and all his earthly possessions. A big portion of those possessions was a massive collection of baseball caps. Dad… [Continue Reading]

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