Eastern Shore, Maryland
Swan
Meadow
at Ivingo
Follow the Price Family as we update a 150 year-old
victorian farmhouse into a home made for hosting!
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Crockpot Shredded Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
Looking for something super simple, doesn’t use your oven, and your family will love? You’ve come to the right meal.
Wam Bam Fence Review - The "No-Dig" Fence
Learn how we used a no-dig vinyl fence around our pool to replace the old chicken wire one!
How to Meal Plan like a Pro
Learn the tips and tricks that meal planners use to stay on track and on budget!
Crockpot Shredded Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
Looking for something super simple, doesn’t use your oven, and your family will love? You’ve come to the right meal.
How to make Homemade Uncrustables
*I am not being paid to promote this product and will not receive anything by you clicking the link I am providing. I just wanted to share a tool that we use consistently in our house that makes lunchtime easier for our autistic kiddos. Oliver, thankfully, is ever so slightly less of a picky eater than his older sister but he absolutely loves uncrustables. I don't know if it's because they are cold or if it's because there is no crust, but the shape is ideal to him and when he sees one he will...
Weekly Meal Plan 7/10 to 7/16
Each week I'm going to try and share with you what we purchase for meals! Trust me, I'm no expert on budgeting or couponing but I believe we have a reasonable way to handle grocery expensive in our household. Each week, I try to plan for seven dinners -- sometimes we have plans so that helps me kind of budget ahead if that makes sense! Like this week, we have two evenings where I don't have to plan dinner because we are going out / planning take-out. So because I still planned for seven meals,...
Small Project: The Kitchen Stairs
*When we recommend a product we may use an affiliate link to do so. If you purchase a product from our link, we receive a commission. Now that we've lived in the house a week, we were itching to start painting right away! So we decided to start tackling two projects at once: the sunroom that exits out to the pool area and also the stairs that lead from upstairs into the kitchen. I've been agonizing over how to mix victorian style with a modern twist, and on Pinterest I started seeing a bunch...
Today starts a new chapter!
This afternoon we finally closed on Swan Meadow! As I type this, it still doesn't feel entirely real that this is happening. Jason and I have always imagined that we'd buy a historic home one day -- but that day is TODAY! Sunday is the big move day for us! Tomorrow Jason has to be a tent attendant at a super fun wedding, so I'll be spending the day schlepping boxes over slowly in my SUV and giving the kitchen, bathrooms, and bedrooms a good clean so they are ready for move-in! For the past...
The History of Swan Meadow
Most of the information we currently know about Swan Meadow comes from its Maryland Historical Trust document and from documents concerning its "twin" home down the road (you can also view the twin, Ivingo, in the book "The Vanishing Landscape" by Shirley Hampton Hunt which we coincidentally purchased years ago as a coffee table book and were so excited to find it in there!). You can view that in its entirety here. Swan Meadow is nearly a twin house of one very similar up the road called...
Welcome! We’re CJ and Jason Price, and this is our blog where we record the trials and tribulations of renovating a 150 year-old gothic victorian on the eastern shore of Maryland!