This is Home – April 2022

Let the Good Times Grow! by Carrie Meier Our appetite for greens is growing! The outdoors becomes our extended square footage as Mother Nature welcomes us (a bit more) warmly, to get out and about. The first time we step back onto that green grass barefoot, it’s a...

This is Home – Jan/Feb 2022

Housing Happiness by Carrie Meier We all have baggage. It doesn’t matter whether you’re young or old, “damaged” or seemingly fine. It doesn’t matter where you originate or what you do for a living. Baggage finds us and defines us in a million ways, obvious or not....

This is Home – December 2021

Keep Calm and Cozy on! by Carrie Meier We’re Wisconsinites. We winterize like we eat cheese, care about our families, and cheer on our home teams. There’s no task too tall and no temperature too low for our breed. So, when we’re faced with another season of cool...

This is Home – November 2021

Yuletide Yay! by Carrie Meier With the holiday season upon us, our homes become the stage for some of our most beloved rituals. Carefully curated — and regardless of style — decorating our homes for the holidays provides us with a practice of anticipation,...

This is Home – September 2021

Delicious Design by Carrie Meier When brainstorming this month’s Food Lover’s Home article, I told my husband I would write a pro-level article about how to stash snacks throughout the house, carefully and intentionally galvanizing them into the decor! He busted out...

This is Home – August 2021

Big WOWs for Wilson Candle Co. by Carrie Meier One year ago, my first article appeared in Appleton Monthly. This is surreal. Baby #4 fresh-in-arms, our lives (although busy), were rooted deeply in quarantine. When this month’s topic hit, I drew an immediate...