Mimi Perez
Mimi Perez is a freelance writer and photographer for CandysDirt.com who lives in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood located in northwest Dallas.
Okay ladies, I have found a getaway for us. Dare I say, a bonafide She Shed? Why yes, yes I do say, and the location is absolutely fabulous. So grab the Thelma to your Louise and enter Fredericksburg in your GPS because that is where I have found the most absolutely perfect She Shed and…
Our dog Hazelberg always leaves messes in his wake. He’s a chewer and a destructor. He gets rubber balls and rips them apart, leaving little pieces of rubber all over the house. If it’s not rubber bits, it’s fluff from his stuffed toys. It will look as though there is snow in our house when…
When we look for a place to call home, what we are really looking for is an oasis away from work, away from traffic and, away from the chaos of living in a major metropolitan city such as Dallas. Now there may be some doubters that think such an oasis does not exist in Dallas.…
As we were remodeling our home in 2007, one of the funniest experiences was shopping for light fixtures. It was a complete remodel down to the studs, and we needed new everything. The Gusman was able to redesign our kitchen so we could get more space, which is wonderful. He insisted on keeping the original…
Defenders of cool have a park to call their own as the Bachman Lake Skatepark opened this past Saturday. Before city officials delivered any speeches, the overwhelming review of the new statepark was in: “This is so gnarl man” a skater said as he came out of the bowl. The $4 million facility is the…
