Home is Where the Heart is.

Steve and I have new house fever again. It happens every spring.

We drove all over the countryside this weekend looking for the perfect home. 

We visited midtown neighborhoods with quaint 20's style cottages and some with old oil barron mansions (hardly a mansion by todays standards).

We visited the newest suburban neighborhoods with McMansions built on every square inch of a city lot allowable.

We drove out to the countryside and looked at properties near the lake and agricultural properties.

We looked at inner city acreages that are being swallowed up by the sprawl of urban growth.

We looked at 70's era neighborhoods where homes were built big and ugly and imagined what we might do to improve one and start a remodeling revolution.

We imagined what our lives might be like if only we had the perfect house. Do you ever do this?

And then an epiphany! We realized the perfect house won't bring us the life we want to live. If we want the life we dream of, we better start living it, right where we are.

Do you have a Honey-Do?

It only took me 9 months to sweet-talk this guy into hanging my draperies in the bedroom.

Wow! What a difference they make!

I need to work on my sweet-talking technique. Do you have any tips for that?

Got Hipstamatic?

I just got an iphone. I am always the last one on the block to have the newest thing. So, now I am searching the app store, and one of my favorite finds is the "Hipstamatic Camera". For just $1.99, it takes digital pictures that look like bad "instamatic" pics of the olden years.

What? We have worked so hard to come so far, and now we want to go backwards? Yes.

Anyway, the app has options. You can change film settings, flash and lenses. It's great fun and they bundle some extra options for an extra price. So, without further adieu, here's a glimpse at just some of the pics I've taken with my Hipstamatic Camera on iphone.

What are your favorite apps for iphone?