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How I decorate for Halloween (without breaking the bank)
As quickly as I brought my Fall Decor out, it was time to put it away and welcome Halloween (don’t worry though, it’ll all be back for Thanksgiving). To me Halloween is the perfect time to DIY your own decor and let your creepy flag fly! Just as I did last month, this year I concentrated my efforts on decorating the morning room…..and here’s the fun part, I re-used all of the pumpkin succulents and potted plants I used for my fall decor but made them look completely different with a few crafty touches and about $40 worth of supplies. Some of the links included in this post are affiliate…
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September Round Up
I know I say that most months seem to fly by, but at least I had a legit reason why September seems to be over before it started. Between working non-stop at my full-time job for the first three weeks and getting ready for the start of school (including sending our little GOB off to his first day of kindergarden) I basically had one week to collect myself before we launched right into October – so needless to say there wasn’t much going on around HilltownHouse last month, but I did manage to get my seasonal decor out and you can see all the cozy details in my…
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Making a Fall Centerpiece with my DIY Pumpkin Succulent Planters
Do you decorate for the seasons? I generally leave the house alone in the spring and the summer but as soon as those cooler breezes start rolling in I can’t wait to bust out my tubs of Fall Decorations. Last year I decked out the family room in my favorite shades of navy and rust orange and this season I moved those same colors into the morning room. This trio of wood wreaths from Target compliment my blue curtains so well and I found some inexpensive throw blankets in the Dollar Spot to wrap around my collection of plants and vases. These two super simple tricks added…
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August Round Up
Time to say a final goodbye to the summer of 2019. I feel like there’s a mentality going around these days that summer needs to be packed with as many activities as possible to make it memorable, and in year’s past I always felt like we never did enough. But as we sat at dinner last weekend, talking about all the things we did this summer as a family and we asked the boys what their favorite parts were – I finally overcame that feeling. Not because we did anymore this year, but because I realized that what we did manage to do was more than enough to leave the…
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A Tastier (and more Sustainable) Daily Routine with Café 504 Coffee
Full disclosure friends – I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was in my 30s! Only when we bought our first Keurig did that change and I started to get in the habit of enjoying a daily cup (or two). Lately though, I’ve been taking a hard look at the amount of waste we as a family have been producing (especially in the kitchen) and began to explore how we could change our routines to a more sustainable lifestyle – starting with ditching that pile of daily KCups in lieu of good-old fashioned ground coffee. Enter the team from Café 504, a small coffee roasting company out of Texas, and their…
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Celebrate my Birthday with a Stunning New Wood Watch!
This past weekend I celebrated my 38th (!!!) birthday so I decided to do something very adult indeed and pick up a gorgeous new watch from JORD – an American company designing timeless watches, Apple watch bands, and accessories out of wood and largely re-claimed natural material. And now all of my readers can join the celebration too by entering to win $100 TOWARDS ANY JORD WATCH during my birthday month! This post is sponsored by JORD Watches but all reviews and opinions are my own. The GIVEAWAY has ended – thank you to all who entered! I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on one of these…
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July Round Up
The summer keeps speeding along way to fast, but doesn’t that always seem like it’s the case these days? I was hoping to be able to share the playroom makeover with you but fell quite a bit behind on that project – hopefully I can get it back on track over the next few months though. I did manage to finally finish my kitchen makeover so if you missed that update make sure you check out the post below How to Make a Builder Grade Kitchen look Custom Throwing a Birthday Party with the Art Nook We ended the month with a celebration – this time for…
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How to Make a Builder Grade Kitchen look Custom
I feel like I’ve been teasing this post for months and so I’m excited that FINALLY have had a chance to share it! Way back in February, I started giving the upper half of my kitchen a little makeover that I have been planning pretty much since we moved in to make my builder grade cabinets look much more custom. Along the way I ended up making a few small changes that I hadn’t originally planned on, but they all have taken this kitchen in a direction that feels more cohesive with the rest of the house than some of my earlier design decisions. So before we jump…
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June Round Up
We had a lot to celebrate in the last few weeks of June – the end of 1st grade for Blake, the end of pre-school for my little GOB, and the 10 year anniversary of me and my husband. It was the perfect way to wrap up the spring and jump into the lazy days of summer. Unfortunately we had one not so celebratory moment when one of our puppies decided to swallow part of his toy and had to get emergency surgery to get it removed (note to dog owners: watch out for those rope toys!) but I’m happy to say he’s back to his normal goofy self. With…
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Installing Built Ins in a Newly Finished Basement
Earlier this year, before the One Room Challenge consumed my life, I wrapped up one of my biggest customer projects to date – helping to finish a basement by installing a custom set of built-ins. I’m extremely proud of how this came together and excited to finally share the reveal of this beautiful space! The homeowners had taken on finishing most of the basement themselves (impressive right!!) but asked me to help build a set of bookcases to flank either side of a stacked-stone wall that would house the TV. We wanted to maximize the closed storage space, while incorporating some open shelving underneath for electronics and still…
