This week’s Saturday Splurge has been brought to you by Melton’s App and Tap.

I actually have all the ingredients for a proper splurge meal in my fridge, so this wasn’t an entirely planned course of events. What I didn’t anticipate when I went grocery shopping this week was the incredible nesting instinct I’ve been dealing with lately and how it would manifest itself into days and days spent in very uncomfortable positions working on one project or another. I’ve just had this incredible drive to continue making this house into our home. Each time we finish a project that I envisioned when we first toured the place in March of 2007 it feels like we settle in just that much more and it becomes more and more ours. It’s hard to describe the satisfaction that comes with that, but I think that anyone who has put in the hours/days/weeks/years working on their own home knows what it feels like. I’ve gotten a bit ambitious lately, but then I always find myself sprinting at the end of a race. It’s time to get to the end of the first leg of projects and I’m running as fast as I can to cross that finish line. I’ll post pictures as soon as we manage to finish with something.