9 months in a Tiny House- 9 things to love and 1 not so much…

After 9 months living in our Tiny house, here are 9 Tiny house things we love, and 1 not so much...

Tiny House Reveal

  Hey guys! As is probably true at your house, we're trying to enjoy the moments of summer with family and friends while still balancing day to day finances, planning for the future and in our case, trying to get the Tiny house all buttoned up and done before the snow flies. For us, this…

Tiny House- Living and Loving (it) :-)

Tiny House- Living and Loving (it) 🙂 These days just when we seem to be settling in, everything must be moved to allow the contractors to do their... whatever the new thing is we need done! Before we tell you what... let us answer the questions we keep getting! We have been a little slack…

Mara won a scholarship to travel!.. well, sort of :)

Our blog is about a mother and daughter's travel everywhere we are able to finagle it.  It has in recent months morphed into a Tiny hose building blog as we have taken a break from out of country travel to build our Tiny house. We did this to save money but also to do some…

Tiny House construction and lessons learned :)… so far

Here are some things I discovered along the way: (so far) No matter what you plan, this will take longer and probably cost more. You can never have too many outlets. (I sometimes get stuck on the little stuff. My friend is a contractor who was sort of brought into the tiny house just to…

Decisions, Decisions

Decisions, Decisions… So, now that we have the Tiny shell on a foundation, the real work begins. We decided to do this house without an architect’s plans which is proving to be both good and bad. On the good side, we can design it however we like. On the other side, just how Do we…

Gypsy Tales: Prep for Moving Day

So here's the story of how we started with a shell for our Tiny House: A year ago, before our move to Maine, I sold my house complete with an original Goodwill collection building I had purchased for storage in my backyard. Here comes a memory.. My favorite house we had ever lived in was a…

Gypsy Tales: Setting the foundation

The foundation was set and leveled. It took "a long time" according to Mara and my grandson, Baylen. They were in charge of the digging post holes and making sure they were all level. My step father Ron was in charge of supervising this teenage duo who quickly learned it was not as easy or…

Travelin’ Tales: Wanna Build a Tiny House?

What does it look like when a hippie/traveler moves? Maybe this conjours up visions of hopping the train, an old VW bus or just putting all your stuff in the car and driving... For my daughter Mara and I, we got a U-Haul and spent a week putting our pared down possessions into it. It’s…

Fit vs Fat- Travel and staying healthy. Do you realize Fit and Fat have only 1 slight letter difference? Yes, close but yet... Being on the road driving is hard on my waist.. and my butt- for different reasons... I drink lots of water, never drink soda or sugary stuff, but I think I just…