Category: Bedroom

  In the name of better sleep, you may have considered sleeping apart from your beloved. If you haven’t ever contemplated such a thing, you’ve certainly heard of others doing it. But what does sleeping separately really mean? Is it separate beds in the same room? Is it (gasp) completely separate bedrooms? Perhaps, but have you ever thought about sleeping together, in the same bed, but with separate covers – aka the Scandinavian sleep method? This was a new concept to me not so very long ago. I couldn’t quite get my head around how that would work. I mean, …

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How do your bed making skills measure up? Yeah, right. You’re funny! Not bad. I throw the comforter up over the rest of the mess. Pretty good. Not everything is tucked perfectly, but you can’t tell that under the bedspread. Excellent. Everything is smoothed, straight, and tucked nicely. Perfection. Hospital corners, quarters bounce, the works. Depending on the day, I would say my answer would be somewhere in the pretty good to excellent range. Some days I take the time to plump the pillows, smooth the sheets, and make sure everything looks just so. Other days, it’s neat and tidy, …

Bed Making Skills – Where Did You Learn Yours? Read more »

Do you ever find yourself wondering about strange, obscure things? Just out of curiosity? I do. I’ve done this my whole life, but until the internet really came into its own and search engines became know-it-alls (in a good way, of course) most of my wonderings went unanswered. Before Yahoo, Bing and Google, I had to really want to know something to start asking around or really-really want to know to go to the library to find answers (rarely did I want to know something that badly). Now that we can not only sit down at a computer and easily …

Why Is It So Bright In Here?!? Read more »

Memorial Day is now in the rear view mirror, and that means we’re heading into the summer season. Ah, summer. There are so many marvelous things associated with summer. School’s out, vacations, picnics and barbecues, pool parties, trips to the beach, camping, baseball games, catching lightning bugs (or fireflies, if you prefer), getting those oh-so-delicious, garden-fresh tomatoes or strawberries from your own back yard. There’s more day to enjoy during the summer months, too. At least is seems like it. Courtesy of the Summer Solstice, the first official day of summer is our longest day of the year. If only …

Keeping It…Your Bedroom…Real. And Dark. And Cool. Read more »