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A Warm and Colorful Thanksgiving Table
It’s almost time for my absolute favorite holiday! Don’t give me wrong, I love Christmas and all the merriment that it entails, but as I’ve gotten older Thanksgiving has become number one in my book. I was talking to my Mother in Law just today about why that is, and I think it’s because each day of the long Thanksgiving weekend brings along a different kind of celebration from the feast on Thursday, to the yearly shopping on Friday, to the breaking out of the Christmas decorations on Saturday and Sunday. For the last 3 years we’ve hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house for mine and my husband’s…
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October Round Up
It’s my favorite time of year folks – my busy time at work is done, the trees are changing colors, and there are non-stop holiday’s to decorate and plan for. I’ve already started Christmas shopping and Thanksgiving dinner planning (check out my go-to Thanksgiving dinner here) and we have lots of fun family activities planned for the next few months, including a trip to Hershey just before Christmas. Before the merriment commences make sure you catch up on any of my late summer/early fall blogs you may have missed: My Bathroom Favorites Fall Decor Living Room Tour Halloween Home Tour A Halloween Table Fit for a (Evil) Queen Some Fun…
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A Halloween Table Fit For a (Evil) Queen
Every year before we venture out Trick or Treating, I invite some family members over for a quick dinner of Braised Short Ribs and Pasta to fuel up for our marathon candy seeking session (you can find that recipe as well as some of our favorite Halloween goodies here). To make things a little more fun (and a little more spooky) I took my oldest sons “advice” and decided this was the perfect opportunity to use our new dining room for the first time ever! The beautiful gray velvet chairs and my handmade white table made the perfect backdrop to continue the Evil Queen/Fairy-tale vibe I already…
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Halloween Home Tour
The weather has finally changed, the trees are turning, and it is time to embrace all things Halloween! My boys just love this holiday – last year they kept the faux outdoor skulls and played with them in the backyard all summer (a little macabre I know) – so I had fun this year turning up the spooky factor in our house. I try to embrace the creepy more than the scary and I really wanted my Haloween touches to blend in with our style, so to do that I imagined I was decorating an Evil Magic or Curisosity shop (think Borgin and Burkes from Harry Potter…
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Fall Decor Living Room Tour
I wish I could say I’m writing this on a cool, crisp Autumn morning with the waft of pumpkin candle floating through the house – but the truth is the weather out her has been CRAZY and we have had more hot and humid days than I’d like to admit. Regardless, that didn’t stop me from channeling my inner Sweater Weather and decking out the living room for fall. I grew up in a house that changed with the seasons so changing out my decor regularly is something that I really like to do. Last year I made myself go through all my seasonal decor and get rid of anything…
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My Bathroom Favorites
I hope you guys enjoyed my first “Favorites” post when I shared tips and tools for organizing my kitchen, because today I’m taking you into my second favorite room to whip into shape – my bathrooms. We have two full bathrooms and a powder room in our home and I use the same basic formulas for keeping them all neat, tidy, and above all super functional. My number one goal for these spaces is too keep everything easily accessible (because I despise digging for my daily essentials) but as hidden as I can (because a cluttered bathroom makes me anxious). With that, here are some of my favorite ideas, products,…
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August Round Up
The temperature may still be running high around here, but other than that it definitely feels like it is time for Fall to start. Before we officially say goodbye to summer though I’m looking back at how we wrapped up this incredibly busy time of year. If you missed any of my blog posts this month you can check them out at the following links: Changing Things Up in the Living Room My Kitchen Favorites Our Small Summer Getaways After the absurdity that was the start of 2018, we decided earlier this year that we weren’t going to take a long family vacation this summer and opted…
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My Kitchen Favorites
I’m trying something new friends. At least once a week I stand in a room in my house and say to my husband “I love <insert random thing here> so much.” And it’s not to pat myself on the back for my good shopping choices, it’s to revel in a simple thing that I can’t believe I lived most of my adult life without. I know I always appreciate it when other bloggers share products that they love, so I’m going to do my own twist on that idea and share products (and ideas) that I use in different spaces in my house — starting with the room I profess…
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Changing things up in the Living Room
Every time I finish a big room makeover it tends to make me look around my house and over-analyze whether all of the other spaces are telling the same story. This spring, when I finished the Dining/Front room makeover, my focus laser-ed in on the rest of the first floor. In my last post I shared some of the small changes I made to my morning room, and this time I’m bringing you the most used space in our house – our living room – and the small projects and decor updates that have changed the feel of the whole space. The bones of the room (the shiplap…
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July Round Up & Morning Room Updates
And somehow we are already through July! This is our first time experiencing an actual school year for one of our boys so it is our first time experience just how fast summer really does fly by. I’m shaking things up a little bit this month – since I’ve been really busy with client projects I have been using my little bit of free time to concentrate some updates to one of my favorite rooms in my house – our morning room. So for my monthly round up I decided to share all of these little, but impactful, changes all in one go! Straightening out the Curtains …
