Gallery Inspiration

My door to picture frame transformation has inspired me to add some more beauty to the walls.  I’m always intimidated by this because I like the quirky one’s that have family pics, artwork and strange, quirky three dimensional objects all rolled into one.  But who has all that stuff lying around the house?  I thought …

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A Transformed Portal

I finished my hutch window/door to picture frame makeover!  I’m so excited about how it came out. I spent an hour this weekend cleaning off the rest of the gunk that was left over from my crazy spray painting prep from this post.  That was the least fun part of the project.  After cleaning came …

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What I Made this Week

I have two easy to throw together, low carb snacks/lunches to share with you today. I’ve been inspired by pins of chicken or tuna salad in a lettuce boat recently, so I decided to throw one together.  It’s not so much a recipe as a gathering of ingredients.  Basically, I eyeballed these, so go with …

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Wings & Beats

I’m reading an amazing book.  It doesn’t happen often that you read a line and your breath catches and your eyes well and you have to go back and read it again.  And again. The book is “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd.  It’s the beautiful story of the real shackles of slavery, …

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New Awesomeness At Ikea

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I made a quick visit to Ikea and some new products caught my eye.  Well, I perused the “New” section on-line  today and I fell in love with like, all of it.  Behold, the inexpensive awesomeness:   I’m trying to think of some type of catastrophic mishap that can …

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Update to the Chaises

I have a new go to thing to do on Monday nights.  Go to Ikea.  I went tonight on a whim after a trip to Michael’s to pick up supplies to make bows for my daughter’s softball team.  It was so quiet.  There were no rogue shopping carts careening through the aisles.  I didn’t get …

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What I Made This Week

My precious baby boy turned 7 this week.  That’s insane.   I have a 9 year old and a 7 year old!  My son is obsessed with Minecraft and I wanted to do something Minecraft inspired for his cake.  There is a bad guy in Minecraft called a Creeper.  He looks like this: One thing …

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I Need to Move

Not from my house. I need to move around. I need some type of spirit to overtake my body and make me into one of those people who enjoys exercise.  I did a little googling and found some things that I hope might help. She looks like she’s totally enjoying this Rebounding workout!  This is …

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