A bilingual blog for a binational family.
Javi and I just wrapped a terrific weekend spent in the company of Ian and Andrea who came down from Chicago to visit for a few days. We found out they were coming last weekend so it was a great surprise – Ian had a few meetings for work that he managed to schedule on […]
Last week I received an email from my sister Paula with a bunch of old family pictures that she found in an old chest. Back in Chile we have a ton of pictures that Leslie and I want to bring back to Nashville to digitize. Looking through old pictures is so much fun for us […]
Uggggggh I’m sick. It started coming on on Monday night, by Tuesday I was definitely under the weather but I thought it was a little cold so I wasn’t too worried about it. On Wednesday morning I woke up and my throat felt like it was on fire…I had to brace myself every time I […]
This past weekend, Javi and I went to the Adventure Science Center to check out a new bilingual exhibit called Cyberchase. We wrote a review of the exhibit for HispanicNashville.com, which you can read here. We loved the Science Center and can’t believe this is the first time we’ve ever been. We didn’t allot enough […]
So with the whole office transformation came a few hitches that we had to solve…like where on earth were we going to put two dressers, a mattress and box spring and a wing back chair and recliner. So we took stock of what we wanted to sell (…which only turned out to be the old […]
So here it is…our beautiful new office! We’ve already told you about the bookshelves, desks and magnetic paint. Here are a few more details about the work we put into this little cozy corner of the house.My original inspiration for the dark blue color came from a Valspar historic colors brochure Javi and I got […]
I mentioned in our last post that I bought a 4 x 8 sheet of MDF and saved the extra material for another project. Well, this is the project…book shelves! Leslie has always wanted a room surrounded with bookshelves full of books…also known as a library. Our new office could not host a full library […]
Since we wanted to have a new office that we could both use, we needed to have desks for both of us. We would love to have two big old desks with plenty of drawers, leather top, shiny old wood and with a big work area…but those desks usually come with a price tag out […]
We have had dozens of fun home improvement / DIY projects going on in the last couple days, which partly explains our absence from posting. We’ve been so busy making our house incredible that it’s become too much of a task to put all of the transformation into one post – there’s literally too much […]
Ok they’re actually quite gentle and sweet (once they calm down and stop jumping up on you to say hello – we’re still working on the “off” command) – but these photos might suggest otherwise if you didn’t know Chupi and Chori. On Sunday we spent the whole day working on bookshelves and painting things […]
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