I love this time of year! Thanksgiving week, all my chicks back in the nest, cooking, baking, getting the holiday decorating and celebrating started. I snuck into Target early this morning to pick up a couple of things {cold meds for the college one} and there was Christmas music playing, beckoning me back to the seasonal section. I resisted, but headed straight to Starbucks to indulge in a gingerbread latte. :) Last week, I got a small … [Read more...]
$1.50 for New Treasures
November 19, 2011 by · 4 Comments
Remember these? Nothing like a little of this... So you can end up with these... I thought I would clean up the brass using Brasso, but when I got to cleaning and polishing, I noticed that several of the glass inserts were cracked in the corners and two flat out broke while I was working! So I popped out all of the glass, grabbed my trusty spray paint and went to town. I LOVE the new finish on … [Read more...]
This ‘n That Monday
November 14, 2011 by · 3 Comments
I'm in mid-stream on a few projects right now, plus the beginning stages of holiday prep-college kid plus a boomerang stepson coming home for Thanksgiving. Ever feel like you have a few hundred balls in the air? :) Good thing they're happy balls! Since I don't have much to share today, how about a little this 'n that? First of all, on Friday I had the ENORMOUS pleasure of meeting Charity of The Heartfelt Home IRL! Charity won my Holiday … [Read more...]
Gratitude Tree {Easy Fall DIY}
November 11, 2011 by · 7 Comments
How about a super simple DIY decor project you can rock for little to no money? I've seen these trees in several places around blogland (most recently by Cassie at Hi, Sugarplum!). They're usually called "Thankful trees," but I've done gratitude "exercises" with my preschoolers for years, and this seemed the perfect fit from the day I first spotted it. Earlier this week, I brought in a flower bucket full of branches out of my yard. You … [Read more...]
The Mom Cave {Sneak Peek}
October 26, 2011 by · 9 Comments
Oh, my gosh, I thought I would never finish the paint job in the Mom Cave, but it's D.O.N.E. I didn't think through this very well and ended up doing a lot more cutting in than I needed to, but... we're movin' on and putting the furniture back in place! Here was the purplicious-ness herself before: I love this shade of purple, but it was time for a change. I have to admit, when I started covering it up, I felt a few twinges of what am … [Read more...]
Easy Peasy Burlap Runner {DIY}
October 24, 2011 by · 14 Comments
I've been up to my elbows in the beast of a paint job that is my Mom Cave all weekend. For a while there, I thought I'd bitten off more than I can chew -- all the picture moldings, chair rail, plus the dark purple paint... it's been quite the project! But, man, is it looking good!! Can't wait to show you soon... In the meantime, I thought I'd share my easy tutorial on the burlap runner from my Fall tablescape. I picked up a yard … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Pizzazz {DIY Fall Decor} and a Dilemma
October 7, 2011 by · 13 Comments
I'll confess: the nailhead pumpkins floating around the blogosphere this fall speak to me. I first spied this one on Houzz several weeks ago. by StrictlySimpleStyleI added it to my Fall Decor Ideabook right away, (check out the entire ideabook in my sidebar), thinking this would be a cool and easy DIY. I even went so far as to purchase and spray paint my victim pumpkin for the project. Remember this larger pumpkin I scored at Wal … [Read more...]
A Little Bookcase Love
October 3, 2011 by · 14 Comments
Bookcases are hard. If you're like me, you hit on a look you like and then eventually you start tweaking it a little here and there, until suddenly, you're not happy with it anymore. Something's missing, or maybe there's too much? For several months I've been considering painting the inside of my family room bookcases. I have lots of wonderful decorative pieces and books and they just weren't popping against the white. … [Read more...]
Mirror Transformation
September 26, 2011 by · 7 Comments
Happy Monday, gang! I hope you had a productive but relaxing weekend. :) I don't know about you, but my fall nesting is kicking in. I feel the autumn chi beginning to flow, but I still have a way to go! A couple of weeks ago, I came across this mirror in a basement closet.It's one of those bought-inexpensively-for-a-purpose-that-never-manifested-itself things. Don't we all have one of those lurking in our basement closet? … [Read more...]
Taking a Shine to Pumpkins
September 19, 2011 by · 11 Comments
I really wanted these.Sigh. They were sold out online {which is probably a good thing}. My decorating budget is slim pickings this year with one in college, but I simply cannot get on board with the warm and toasty pumpkin orange this year.So I decided to take a few ugly plastic-ish pumpkins and help them get their shine on-- with a little help from Krylon.The three little guys were in my fall decor stash from God-knows-when, but I … [Read more...]
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