38 Homemade Christmas Ornament Projects
It’s Wednesday the 2nd… so it’s time to share this season’s (completely unofficial) Pinterest Challenge (not sponsored by Pinterest or anyo…
Favorites Ideas and Projects
Here are all of our project and room makeover favorites on one easy to browse page full of decorating ideas, easy upgrades, painting and furniture building ideas, etc.
How To Upholster A Chair Cushion
Well, we can check cheerful desk chairs off of our wish list for the office. You can read all about how I prepped, primed, & painted them h…
How Do Bloggers Make Money?
Like previous blogiversaries, we’re gonna use this week as an excuse to take a look at the business side of blogging (at least as we know i…
A Day In The Life Of A Home Blogger
As we mentioned yesterday, it’s Blogiversary Week, baby (still can’t believe it’s been four whole years). And since we shared a day in the …
How To Make A Planked Wood Desk
So our built-in wall-to-wall desk already made some good progress this week with the painting and making-taller of our cabinets. But someth…
How To Paint Your Front Door
We’re back as promised with the whole front door shebang. First, here’s what we started with: Yup, it was an old maroon storm door with thr…
How To Make Faux Butterfly Art
On Sunday we took the kid on a little weekend adventure. And one of our stops was a butterfly exhibit with all sorts of real live butterfli…
How To Make A Clothespin Chandelier
Woo to the hoo. We did it. We met our self-imposed Tuesday morning deadline and finished our clothespin chandelier as part of our little (c…
14 Months Of Breastfeeding
Yup, that’s what I did. Well, technically 14 months and three days if you’re really counting. And yup, this really is a post about breastfe…
How To Add Built-In Shelves Next To A Washer & Dryer
Laundry room update? Don’t mind if I do. To jog your memory, so far we’ve replaced the washer/dryer, taken down window shutters & cluttered…
How To Use Polymeric Sand To Block Weeds In Our Paver Patio
Let’s talk about crack sand. You know we love to save a buck wherever we can. Sometimes to a fault. And as any scrimper knows, sometimes it…
How To Sew Curtain Panels
Our recent road trip to see Katie and her amazing house gave us that tickle to get down to business when we got back home. You know how you…