After last week’s post, I had one of those weeks that ends with thinking “What else could happen?”–but me not being completely insane, I didn’t dare think it. The baby had already gotten her first cold, and then RocketMan got it, and then come Monday, I got it, and missed two days of work; then RocketBaby . . . → Read More: Clearing the Shelves, Phase I: DVDs in Binders!
 I love picnics. I LOVE picnics. As a kid, we never camped, rarely picnicked, and went to parks only rarely. My folks grew up in the city, so as far as they were concerned, living on a 2.5-acre expanse of green, bordered by cowfields on two sides and a tar road on the third, they were . . . → Read More: It’s Picnic Season… So Meet the Picnic Rocketpack!  If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you’ll know by now that we’re mildly obsessed with Stuff Management. Moving it around, thinning it out, fitting it together like 3-D Tetris pieces (does 3D Tetris exist, BTW? Because my phone needs it.). We’ve moved CDs onto iPods, DVDs into three-ring binders, made monthly trips to Goodwill . . . → Read More: Losing a Battle in the War of Stuff: The Rockets Rent a (Mini) Storage Space  So I’ve been saying for months that I’d be posting nursery pics, and as RocketMan still hasn’t gotten around to hanging the rest of the artwork, I figured I’d at least show you the changing station. Which, incidentally, is roughly half of the full square footage in the room (I believe the total is about 47 . . . → Read More: The Hallway Nursery, Part One  2 comments  Nursery, Organization, RocketBaby  baby, cavallini & co, changing bad, changing table, container store, dexbaby, diapering kit, elfa, first years fold and go, gdiapers, modernkiddo, Nursery, sarahjanestudios, small apartment nursery, stacking drawers, storage bins, toybox, vintage flash cards 
Cerrado! As promised, back to the whole point of RocketCityDigs: making the galaxy livable for small-space dwellers. Since we converted the office into the nursery (and we swears, we’ll finish that and post photos eventually), our magnet board has been woefully leaning against the wall in our sunroom. The magnet board itself is a DIY job: . . . → Read More: DIY Magnet Board, or When One Runneth Out Of Space, Layer  If you remember from way back in January, I started this blog by giving Le Tour Grande of our kitchen—all 7′ by 6′ of it. While everything above the counter was in reasonably good condition (everything organized and more or less reachable), I didn’t get into the details of the below-the-waist goings-on. One particular corner of . . . → Read More: Our $70 Kitchen Renovation 
The hallway-cum-office-cum-library-cum-nursery Some things about pregnancy, I’m finding, are awfully fun. Last week I popped—meaning the woman at Golden Gate Meat Company, the receptionist at my office, the co-owner of the market across the street, and a guy in my neighborhood all feel free to ask when I’m due and/or if I’m in the family way. . . . → Read More: Crib or Pack'n'Play? Pack'n'Play or Bassinet? Bassinet or Moses Basket?  As I’m home sick with a cold, and no hope of symptom relief from my usual OTC drugs, I figured I’d pick an easy topic: shelves. Shelves are the small-space inhabitant’s zinc. It’s her TheraFlu. Her warm bath followed by Vicks Vaporub. Shelves save precious floor space, are reasonably easy to install, and best of all, . . . → Read More: Did I mention we're into shelves?  A few personal notes before I move onto this week’s blog: Congratulations to the Van Everys and a big welcome to Georgia Poppy Van Every, who finally decided to come out of hiding on Thursday, February 26. Can’t wait to meet her! And also a world’s full of good wishes to my friend Marcie, who recently . . . → Read More: Have No Car, Will Travel  Last summer, another Devil-Ette, The Spitfire, picked up a swell collection of pamphlets from the Alameda Flea Market. We shared a bus home from practice, and we spent one lovely ride home reading through selections from The Amy Vanderbilt Success Program For Women. Back in the 60s, it was apparently a book-of-the-month-like club in which women . . . → Read More: The Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Heiresses |
 
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