DIY, Decor
My favorite yard sale in the world happened this weekend. It’s at a little church down the street from my house. I went to nursery school there when I was little and my daughter went there, too. So, I already love it for the nostalgia of it and the fact that some of the money …
I mentioned in yesterdays post that I was going to focus on getting back to basics this week. Today, I’m going to tackle a very basic routine, cleaning the house. For some people, this comes easily. For others, it is a daunting task. I get overwhelmed thinking about the fact that I did three loads …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
When I was day dreaming about what to do with the door I took off of Sir Hutchington, I called the post A Window without a View. But it really is a door, not a window. Regardless, I’ve finally settled on a transformation for the door/window. It’s a combo of these two: I …
I have whatever the equivalent of writers block is for decorating in the master bedroom. It’s really a disaster. I think it’s so bad that I can’t even really find anything inspiring because I can’t get past the disorganized mess that it is. I think maybe if I can address some of the problems with the …
When we moved into this house, we had one of those big builder’s grade mirrors in the upstairs bathroom. When we redid the bathroom a few years ago, the mirror came down. For some reason, it never got thrown away. Even when we had the dumpster for the kitchen remodel, it somehow stuck around. …