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One Room Challenge Week 3 – Wallpaper, Trim, and my DIY Coffered Ceiling
We are at the One Room Challenge halfway point friends! I’m trying not to panic too much, but I gotta be honest and say that I’m feeling some serious pressure when I look at the items still left on the to-do list. For now, though, let’s concentrate on the progress that has been made and how excited I am to finally start sharing it with all of you. First up – let’s just talk about the new love of my life, this wallpaper!! My amazing dad helped me out big time since we first had to apply a horizontal lining paper to the walls before we could even tackle this…
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One Room Challenge Week 2 – The Front Room/Dining Room Inspiration and Plan
Happy One Room Challenge Week 2 everyone! First, if anyone tried to leave me a comment last week and got an error message I AM VERY SORRY! We’ve been working on some website updates that blocked commenting, but everything should be fixed for this week…thank you husband! If you missed last week, you can check out all of the before pics of my front room and dining room in my Week One post. Second off, even though I just spent a crazy weekend working on my space I’m going to hold off sharing any major progress pics with you guys until next week when things look a little more put…
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March Round Up
Decorating Easter Cookies with Kids My nieces unexpectedly slept over the other evening, so I planned for one of my favorite things to do with them – decorate cookies. I’m not gonna lie, trying to manage 4 kids and a potentially messy situation can get a bit crazy! But over time I’ve put together a few tricks to make the experience enjoyable for everyone. Make sure that each kid has their own space – I set everyone up at my island and give the two little ones stools so they can reach. Each kid gets their own plate and their own set of cookies. I also keep my boys…
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One Room Challenge Week 1 – Taking on my Front Room / Dining Room
Here we go again friends – it’s time for the Spring One Room Challenge!!! This is my second time participating (for my first challenge I made over my guest room and you can check out the final reveal here) and I am possibly more excited this time around. The lessons I learned last fall about both blogging and designing were invaluable in helping me take this little page of mine to a new level. For anyone new to this event, the One Room Challenge is an amazing opportunity for home bloggers hosted by Linda at Calling it Home in partnership with House Beautiful and the Home Love Network. During the…
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My Rustic Easter Table
Confession time everyone – as much as I like decorating, I have never been great at putting together a tablescape. Whenever I host a big dinner or party, I always put a lot of time into planning and preparing the menu, but run out of time or energy before I ever get something cute on the table. But this year, after a combination of Instagram inspiration and winter boredom, I decided to challenge myself! We eat Easter dinner at my mom’s house each year, but I’ve been trying to make sure that for every holiday we have some sort of meal at home so I will be cooking Saturday…
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February Round Up
Antique Shopping February brings about one of my favorite yearly traditions – antique shopping with my husband. The first year we moved into this house he suggested that we take the afternoon of Valentine’s day and go visit the antique store that’s around the corner from our house (and YES – it is both awesome and dangerous to have a huge antique store right around the corner from your house!). We’ve gone every year since and every year I pick up a few special things. This year I grabbed some absolutely beautiful pieces for the upcoming front room/dining room makeover. These two botanical prints were honestly just screaming for me…
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Ideas for adding Unique Art to your House – the Moderate Time or Money Edition
So I think I promised to share the second part in this series weeks ago – so my bad, totally over-promised on that one! But since better is never late than never here is Round 2 of ideas for adding unique artwork to your home, the Moderately Time Consuming or Expense edition. Some of these ideas take a little bit more time or DIY skill and some take a little bit more money then those I included in my “Cheap and Easy” series, but none of them take both. The first few ideas I list involve creating your own Art – and before you roll your eyes at me and…
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January Round Up
A Quick Entryway Update With the temperatures outside still pretty frigid I’ve been using the winter to knock some smaller projects off my list, starting with some quick updates to my entryway and hallway. First off, for those wondering the door color is Sherwin Williams Sensible Hue. If anyone if thinking of painting the back of their door but doesn’t want anything too colorful I recommend going two shades darker than your wall color. You will get a high contrast but in a more subtle way. We had changed out the boob light last year for this beautiful glass and wood pendant I found at HomeGoods, and…
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Ideas for adding Unique Art to your House – the Cheap and Easy Edition!
Since I’m not tackling as many big projects this year, I want to spend some time sharing the smaller touches that make my house feel personal – starting with the most near and dear to my heart….my Artwork. For those that don’t know, I was an Art History major and attended Grad school for Art Education. I never took the plunge and became an art teacher, but my love for the subject burns just as bright as ever and I like to try to use this blog to inspire others to take risks by adding more unique and personal pieces to their homes. This week I’m bringing you part One…
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2018 New Year’s Resolutions and Projects
We are kicking off 2018 a few weeks late around here because we had a rough start to this year. After starting the year not feeling great health-wise, me and my sons were involved in a very scary car accident on the first day back to school. We are all TOTALLY OK and I am extremely THANKFUL and AMAZED that it wasn’t worse……..but the experience did leave me incredibly sore, tired, and honestly I was in pretty low spirits for a few days. Over the last weekend, though, I started to feel more like myself then I had in a while — as I physically felt better the cloudiness in…
