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Take the 52 Week Hilltown House Home Challenge!
If you’ve been following along with my monthly round ups over the last year you know that 52 weeks ago I started a challenge —— a challenge to stop procrastinating and finally knock off the all the home improvement tasks that have been lingering on the bottom of my to do list. And as we get ready to ring in the next decade tomorrow night I am excited to report that I made it through all 52 tasks on my list and damn it feels good!! In fact it feels so good I wanna invite all of you to join in and keep the good feeling going by officially starting…
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12 Quick and Easy Ways to Decorate for the Holidays
Christmas is just under a week away, which if you’re like me means there is still PLENTY of time to add some last minute holiday decor to your home! Not to pat myself on the back too much, but I think I kinda nailed my Christmas decorations this year (Go Me!) especially in my living room. I shared this room last year and the year before but something always didn’t feel right. For one, I had too much stuff in there so I kept a lot of stuff packed away this year; same thing with color – way too many different colors going on to keep this room…
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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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Indulging in a Mini-Master Bath-Makeover with my new Bathroom Butler Heated Towel Warmer
Don’t be shocked folks but today I’m taking you inside a space I very rarely show – my master bathroom! While this room functions absolutely perfectly – there is a lot to be desired aesthetically. The budget required for a big bathroom makeover is still a few years off and even though I had done a few cosmetic updates (new mirrors, new lights, new vanity color) I kinda left it at that — and then I kinda dreaded going in there every day! All I could see was what still needed to be done, but since I didn’t have a timeline of when that would be accomplished I had nothing…
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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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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…
