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Late Summer Decor
Happy Monday, friends!! I’m so glad to be back after taking last week off from blogging! My boys are all starting school this week, which is so exciting! My youngest will be in preschool, my two middle boys are in elementary, and my oldest in junior high! My boys are excited to return to school and see their friends, and I’m excited to have a little more time for projects! When kids start heading back to school, it feels like summer is starting to come to an end, which is so sad! I love summer so much!! While I am trying to enjoy every last moment of summer, I’m also…
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Another Furniture Transformation
Happy Thursday, friends!! I’ve been so busy this week, but I did manage to refinish a dining room table. Here’s the before (pic from the Facebook listing)… And after some chalk paint, and a lot of sanding…. I painted the entire table white, started to distress it, and then realized that I wanted to sand most of the paint off the top of the table. If only I wouldn’t have put such a thick coat of paint on the top, there wouldn’t have been nearly are much sanding required. Live and learn! After I sanded, and sanded, I sealed the table. I used something that is new to me, lindseed…
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A celebration of summer
Happy Tuesday, friends! As so many of you already know, summer is my favorite season!! When Amber, from Follow The Yellow Brick Home, invited me to participate in a summer blog hop, I was so excited!! When I think of summertime, the first thing that comes to mind is flowers!! Warm sunny days, working out in the garden, and lots of beautiful blooms! Beautiful blooms are exactly what I use to decorate for summer. I love to make arrangements, or just have single blooms in bud vases around my home. I adore fresh flowers! A few pictures of fresh flowers that I have had throughout my home this summer, so…
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Shelf stylin’
Happy Monday, my friends!! How was your weekend? My seven year old had surgery, at the end of last week, recovery hasn’t been quite as smooth sailing as we thought it would be. So, our weekend consisted of a lot of laying around, book reading, movie watching, snuggling, etc. It’s always so hard to see my little ones in pain, but it’s also nice to slow down and spend these moments together! While he slept, the first afternoon after surgery, I spent a few moments playing with flowers from my garden, and styling this little bookcase that I recently got from the Facebook marketplace, for FREE!!!I immediately fell in love…
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Checking things off my checklist ~ project #4
Happy Friday, friends!!! I am so excited to have completed yet another project from my list of nagging projects. We are down to just one more project on this list! Remember the little chandelier that I bought from the Facebook marketplace a few months ago… I was unsure of where I was going to put this little beauty, but I knew that I couldn’t pass it up, especially for just $10!! Then, last week, I came upon a light fixture that I LOVED and wanted to get to hang in my powder room, but, it was sold out! Which made me think of my little chandelier, and I instantly knew…
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Favorite Things Giveaway
Happy Thursday y’all! Can you believe it is already August 1st!!! July flew by so fast!! Today, I’m SOOO excited to do my first blog giveaway! I appreciate y’all so much, and want to show my appreciation by giving one lucky winner, a Bath & Body Works candle called “autumn” (it’s my fav!!!), a $15 Starbucks gift card (PSL will be at Starbucks before the end of the month!), and one of my handmade fall garlands. Here’s how to enter… • 5 entries for following my blog, you can sign up through email, WordPress, bloglovin’, Facebook, etc. Any of these options count. •3 entries for every time you come to…
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Checking things off my checklist ~ project #3
Happy Monday y’all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I worked on quite a few projects that I have been dragging my feet to finish, including my powder room. I mean, seriously, when did I start it? March!!! That’s real life though, some projects come together quickly, while others take so long! Let’s take a quick look at the before… You might be wondering , what the hold up was? The wallpaper went up quick and easy, but I measured wrong and had to order another roll, which was on back order, so it took quite a few weeks to receive it. Once I got it, the wallpaper was…
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Furniture Transformation Thursday ~ vintage cabinet
Happy Thursday, friends!!! I hope your week has been amazing!! I have been trying to soak up every last minute of summer break, with my sweet boys! Less than one month left of summer break! Today, I have to share with y’all a furniture transformation that is going to knock your socks off! My sister found this blue cabinet on the Facebook marketplace. She fell in love with the shape, but not the color. She decided that she was going to strip the paint off, and paint it in a white chalk paint. She started to strip the paint, slowly, layer by layer, and then discovered that she had created…
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Thrifted Treasure ~ July
Happy Monday, y’all!! I hope your weekend was amazing! I feel quite accomplished, I stayed inside all weekend, trying to get my house clean, and work on several unfinished projects that I have going on in my house. I still have a lot to finish, but I made progress, which is a huge win for me! After all the room switches happened here, I am finally getting around to helping my boys decorate their “new” rooms. I started in my seven year old’s room. It seemed only natural, whereas all the room switch-a-roos happened because he wanted a “cool” room, and was sick of living in a “cute” room with…
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Coffee Table Dilemma…sell or keep?
Happy Thursday!! I cannot tell you how much I am loving summer! It’s my most favorite time of the year! I love having an open schedule, lazy days, play days, and adventure days. It’s all so much fun! For those of you that don’t know, I have four boys (13, 10, 7, 4). You can probably imagine how all the energy and craziness that goes on here can lead to huge arguments, and sometimes even a full blown fist fight. Four little men, all trying to be the alpha! That is the one part of summer break is hard. Fortunately, thus far, summer break has been so good to us!!…
