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Spring Mantel
Happy Friday, friends!! Isn’t this such an exciting time of the year…Spring!!! It’s finally here! The birds are chirping, the flowers are starting to show their lovely faces after a long winters nap, the sun is shining, and life is good! I love spring!! Not only do I love spring, but I love decorating my mantel for each season, which is why I am so excited to show y’all my spring mantel decor. I’m keeping it very natural and simple this year. I started out with a few terra-cotta pots that I covered with moss.I simply covered each pot with Elmer’s glueSpread the glue out evenly on the pot, using…
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DIY furniture appliqués
Happy Thursday, friends!! Hope you’ve been having a good week! This week, I have been busy working on a little project. You see, I have an antique buffet that I absolutely love, but didn’t know where to put it, so it’s been sitting in my bedroom, just waiting for the perfect spot in my house. Every time I see the buffet, I ask myself “where can I put this beautiful buffet, so I can see it more throughout the day?”. Then, last Saturday, after an amazing nights sleep, I woke up and realized that I was going to build it into a hutch, and put it in my kitchen. Here…
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Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop 320
Welcome to our party! Are you ready for spring? We are just a week away from its official arrival! Have you been creating any spring inspired posts yet? We can hardly wait to see what you have to share with us. First, though, let’s check out our features from last week’s party: Most Viewed Best Kind Of Retail Therapy – Life Tales Books Very Popular Ipoh White Coffee – Of Mice and Ramen 30+ Plastic Egg Educational Activities for Kids – Something 2 Offer Rainbow Bark Recipes – Bird’s Party Editor’s Pick Crochet Sensory Book FREE Pattern – Winding Road Crochet So let’s get this party…
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Checking things off my checklist, project #2
Yay! We made it through Monday!! I’m so happy to share with y’all another project that I finished. Just three more projects to go, to complete my list of nagging projects, that have been waiting to be completed!I actually really loved the color on my mudroom bench, it was dark and moody, such a contrast from the rest of my home. But once I decided on the wallpaper for my powder room, (which is directly across from the mudroom) I knew that the green had to go. I searched Pinterest, asked around, tried a few paint samples, and ended up going with a Benjamin Moore color called “White Dove”. It’s…
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A Pinteresting Challenge ~ Spring Tablescape
Happy Monday, friends!! I’m so excited to be joining an amazing group of talented bloggers, for another Pinterest Challenge, hosted by Cindy, County Road 407. This month’s inspiration picture, comes from Lisa’s Instagram account, @asimplystylednest. Isn’t it so cute!!! If you’re coming from My Wee Abode, I’m sure that you were so inspired by all the spring beauty that she created!! I know that I sure was! Now on to my spring tablescape…. While keeping the inspiration picture in mind, I created a tablescape that has some of the same elements, a bunny, eggs, and flowers, but made it a little more “me”, just a little more wild and free.I…
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Checking things off my checklist, project #1
Happy Friday, y’all!! So you might remember the list of five nagging projects that needed to be finished, that I shared with y’all last Friday… One down (coffee table), just four more to complete! Doesn’t it always feel so good to check things off of your “to do” list? It always makes me feel so accomplished! Here’s the table, as it sat last week, complete with sharpie marks, peeling paint, pen/pencil marks, etc…When I originally got this table from a thrift store, the top was bright yellow. At the time, my youngest wasn’t even two years old yet, I didn’t have much time for projects, so I just gave it…
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Favorite Things Thursday ~ Faux vs Real
Hope y’all are having a good week! While I am patiently waiting for spring to arrive, I have been adding a few spring touches here and there. My favorite thing to use when decorating….flowers! When adding flowers to your decor, do you prefer faux or real flowers? Hands down, I prefer real flowers. There isn’t anything like the real thing. Their natural movement and beauty is hard to recreate. But, I must admit, I have been seeing faux flowers around Instagram and blog land, that have made me rethink my exclusive love for fresh flowers. I recently found these faux lavender plants at Walmart (I would give you the link,…
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Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop 319
Welcome to our blog party! Most of you are well-versed in how blog hops work. If you are new to blog hops, though, this simple definition of a blog hop may help. A blog hop is an online event where bloggers share links to their best posts. Guests also come by and look through the list of posts, visiting the ones they like the most. They may find a really great recipe to save or a creative idea (DIY, craft project, home decor, etc) to try, get some money making tips and on and on. You do NOT have to be a blogger to enjoy a blog hop. If you…
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Top Shelf Clearance Challenge ~ March
Happy Monday, friends!! Hope y’all had a wonderful weekend!!! I’m so excited for this month’s clearance challenge. I actually had my clearance items bought, and styled on my kitchen shelves about a week ago, I was ahead of the game for once. But every time I walked passed the shelves, something just felt off, and I could not figure out what it was I wasn’t loving. So, of course, I decided on Saturday night, that I would go out and try to find something else on clearance that I could use. Turns out, Target is having a HUGE clearance event right now. There was so much on sale/clearance. What did…
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Five on Friday ~ five most nagging, unfinished projects
Happy Friday, friends!!! You know those days when you look around your house, and you realize…”I sure have a lot of projects that I have started, and really should finish!”? Well, I have a lot of projects like that. So, today, Tara and I have decided that we would each share five projects that we have started, and are determined to finish soon. Here are my five….. #1 Mud RoomSo, you might remember, last year, when I did a little makeover in here. I loved the dark, moody green color, and was sure that I would love it for a long time to come. Well, every time my little brother…
