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November Round Up
I can feel it starting friends – the overwhelming anxiety of having so much to do before the end of the year and not enough time to do it in! I can blame part of it on a late Thanksgiving, but the honest truth is that every year I do try to cram a crazy amount of activities in the few short weeks before Christmas and inevitably there isn’t enough time to do them all. But the one thing I try to take stock of when I feel like I’m drowning in the holidays is that I am only this busy because I am lucky enough to have so many…
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Holiday Gift Guides – For the Ladies, the Gents, the Boys, the Neighbors, and the House
I know this may elicit a few eye rolls – but I love shopping for Christmas presents! Finding the perfect present and seeing the people I love open them is one of my favorite parts of the holiday season. A long time ago I learned that they key to loving and not loathing Christmas shopping is to get as much as I can bought and wrapped as early as possible (usually the first or second week of December) – that way I’m free to enjoy the rest of my holiday season. This year I finally put aside some time to share with all of you some of my favorite gift…
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October Round Up
Before we all dive into Christmas trees and hot cocoa, I have to say goodbye to month of skeletons and witches brooms. I was hoping to be able to fondly look back on celebrating my little guys 6th birthday last month and trips to the pumpkin patch, but a nasty round of sickness put a dent in our plans. At least we were all healthy enough to go Trick or Treating and end the month on a much better note than it started! I spent most of my time working on customer projects so this months round up will be short but I’ve got a lot of fun things on…
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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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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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An Easy and Inexpensive Valentines Day Fondue Party
Oh how Valentine’s Day changes when you become a parent LOL. Instead the quiet dinners out of years past, me and my husband started a new tradition a few years ago where we stay home with our boys and stuff ourselves full of cheese and chocolate fondue! This year I thought it’d be fun to crank up the volume of our little family dinner and turn it into a fun party full of lots of really simple DIYS – and TONS of sugar! Coming off of the crazy spending frenzy that comes with the holiday’s I really challenged myself to be super thrifty this time around. In…
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Christmas Home Tour 2018
It’s officially one week to Christmas and to celebrate I’m sharing with you my final blog of the season (and the year!) and taking you on an extended tour of Holiday Hilltown House. I already shared the small touches I made to the boys bedroom and the guest room in my last few posts but today I want to share the common areas of our home that got the full Deck the Halls treatment. I fully intended to not worry about the living room since I decorated it last year, but I found that just by making a few small changes I became so much happier with the…
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My simple formula for a Festive Fireplace
So yesterday morning I woke up to the most amazing early Christmas present – one of my all time favorite blogger/designer/just awesomely good people Emily Henderson shared my front room fireplace on her blog in a Holiday decor round-up. To say I am still in disbelief in being included in such a beautiful group of inspiration photos is an understatement and I am amazingly thrilled! To celebrate, I decided to push this blog up a day early because it couldn’t be any more timely. I joke that the reason I keep building fireplaces is so I can decorate them for Christmas (I have 1 real and 2 faux…
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Quick and easy ideas to decorate a kid’s room for the Holidays
One of my fondest memories of from my childhood Christmases was unpacking the box of decorations my mom kept for me to decorate my own room – small ceramic angels, snowglobes, music boxes, and of course my little tree that I would decorate with extremely meaningful ornaments (many of which are on our living room tree at this very moment). This is a tradition that I very much want to pass along to my boys, but beyond putting a little tree in their room last year I have sadly never gotten around to decorating anything else for them. This year, though, I quite unintentionally found myself adding small touches as…
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Keeping things simpler this Christmas, without losing the holiday magic!
Let’s rewind things to last December shall we? I had just purged most of my old holiday decor and wanted to expand my decorating skills by coming up with a really great design for my living room – but I was also incredibly sick and running on fumes so things didn’t turn out as good as I was hoping. Luckily the nice thing about Christmas is that it comes around every year, which means a new opportunity to keep what works and get rid of what doesn’t! Flash forward to 2019 and feeling 100% better! In fact I was feeling so good that my holiday cheer spilled into…
