About Kim and The Twice Remembered Cottage

I have been wanting to make an About page for Twice Remembered for a very long time now. But it seems that every time I'd sit down to write it out, I'd just draw a blank after writing Welcome to the The Twice Remembered Cottage. Why is this so hard? I've been blessed, though, with many new readers this month and I suddenly thought this would be a perfect time to sit down and try to work on the page. And by suddenly, I mean I was in the middle of sorting out my craft supplies and thought "Hey, I really need to write that About page...right this very minute!" So I sat down and typed until it was finished. Funny how things work that way. You can find it here at it's permanent spot on my blog, or you can just read the contents below if you're not up to jumping around all willy nilly right now. First, let me say that I do sincerely welcome all the new readers and I also greatly treasure those of you who have been visiting me here for a very long time, some since the beginning! Thank you all!

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Welcome to The Twice Remembered Cottage. My name is Kim but my ultra cool secret creative name is Twila, which is taken in part from my internet username of the the past ten years.  Some days I wake up Kim and just want to laze around in my pajamas all day, and some days I wake up Twila and am compelled to dive into thirty creative projects at once. Hubs refuses to call me anything but by my real name.  And I haven't even told him about my ultra cool secret creative last name yet!

Twice Remembered - our home - has been a labor of love, sweat, and tears for my husband and me for the last few years as we work

It is ultimately through creativity, hard work, and patience that goals, both mine and yours, are met, for there are no short supplies of these.

to transform it into the charming, unique, and old-fashioned cottage I've pictured for so long in my mind.  We live in a tumble-down neighborhood, on a tumble-down street, in a tumble-down house that seems to be falling apart faster than our time and budget allow us to work on it but we are determined that none of these will prevent our "sweet little cottage dreams" from taking flight. Time and money, for most of us, are rare luxuries. It  is my philosophy, though, that there is potential in everything and it is ultimately through creativity, hard work, and patience that goals, both mine and yours, are met, for there are no short supplies of these {though patience does seem to run out from time to time!}.

Twice Remembered - the blog - has been my place to record random projects and goings-on here at our cottage in the making.  As you'll see, there is hardly any rhyme or reason to much of what I post here because we kind of move around with our projects according to what we have the time and money to work on.  So needless to say, we have a few rooms going at once, which I do not necessarily ever recommend.  When we're not working on remodeling projects, I'm usually in the middle of something else whether it be baking, crafting, smaller DIY makeover projects, learning to sew and draw, cupcake decorating, reading, trying to keep my garden alive and the grass from growing too tall, hanging with the kids, or attempting to unearth our dining room table and other surfaces buried under the "creative clutter"  that tends to accumulate. A neat freak I am not. Some other kind of freak, highly likely.

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."-Henry David Thoreau

You may notice that I often blog the way I live my life - by inspiration.  Most days, I never really know what I'll be up to and I've found that for me, it is so much more "authentic" to just let life unfold, and then blog as I'm inspired to write.  For me personally, schedules and deadlines and high expectations {though completely proper and necessary in many areas of life} squash my spirit when it comes to my blog, so one of my other philosophies is to Live freely. Blog freely. Sometimes I take breaks where I don't even think about blogging - some short breaks, some long. Other times, I may very well write too often because the words and ideas just flow and naturally end up on my blog. I guess what I'm trying to say is that my blog is pretty random, and I hope you're ok with that. :)

Thank you so much for coming along with us on this cottage transformation journey - and all the little pit stops along the way!

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