One Room Challenge: Week 8 – Reveal

One Room Challenge: Week 8 – Reveal

My family says our home feels alive. When we first moved in after renovating, we had agreeable gray walls. Everywhere. Yes, can you believe I did that? I quickly added some design elements to bring in some color, but it still felt lifeless. Years later, with paint,...
One Room Challenge: Week 7 – Supernova Girl

One Room Challenge: Week 7 – Supernova Girl

Did you ever do Billy Blanks’ Tae Bo back in the day? Well, I sure did. Can’t you tell from my enormous muscles? Throwing punches in my oversized t-shirt at a fuzzy TV screen back in the early aughts. Me, alone in my house knocking out invisible foes....
One Room Challenge: Week 6 – The Scary Part

One Room Challenge: Week 6 – The Scary Part

Dear friends, this was not an easy week. I did some scary things this week—like that scene in Signs where the alien walks across the screen and you have to call your Mom and say you have a stomach ache which is your code word for leaving parties early, but your sister...
One Room Challenge: Week 5 – Drama Sucks

One Room Challenge: Week 5 – Drama Sucks

I love shows like Queer Eye, What Not to Wear, and other makeover/life-change reality TV shows. I just want to have someone fairy-tale restart my wardrobe and tell me how to fix my life. Like a personal fashion tyrant that forces me to look amazing. I obsess over this...
One Room Challenge: Week 3 – Cut Me Down To Size

One Room Challenge: Week 3 – Cut Me Down To Size

Thunder bellows throughout the basement of Racheal Jackson’s home. It’s me, Racheal. I’ve spent countless hours in this basement—alone. My diagrams are scattered across the floor. The neighbors think I’ve gone mad. My family has left me alone...