The problem with living in a very old house is that the list of improvement projects is never ending. Well, this front door project has been on my list forEVER! We’ve now lived in our house for five years. It was built circa 1908, so it’s already seen many a tough winter, and we did…
Every summer I have a huge list of home improvement projects to do. You know, since I supposedly have more time to do them. Which never turns out to be quite true, but it sure makes me feel really wonderful when I am actually able to complete one or two of them! This summer, the…
This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Sharpie, but all my opinions are my own. My laundry room is a dungeon. At least, it was until I painted it a bright, sunny yellow. Now it’s only a semi-dungeon. It’s down in our unfinished 100-year-old basement, and…
I really wanted to have a little herb garden in my backyard this summer. A couple of summers ago, I tried to plant an herb garden in the ancient garden bed in the corner of my backyard, but the very day I got my cute little herbs planted a gigantic maple tree fell on them….
Learn some fun Christmas tree decorating tricks so that you have the most beautifully decorated Christmas tree ever! Last year I was forced to put my beloved Christmas Tree in the dumpster after we took it down on New Year’s Day. It just couldn’t stand up straight anymore to save its life, and it was…
It’s time to take the Halloween decorations down and start putting up Thanksgiving decor. I liked the idea of decorating with printables in frames so much for Halloween, that I decided to make some for Thanksgiving, too. I fell in love with this quote when I first saw it somewhere, so I decided to use…
Free printable for Halloween “I love you more than candy corn.” So I’m on a diet. Which means I need to be RESISTING candy corn. Which is really hard because it is my favorite candy on earth. And now we have candy corn flavored M&Ms to resist, as well. Fortunately, they are not quite as…
When I first walked through this house while on my house-hunting trip, I was a little puzzled by the gigantic, low-ceilinged room upstairs. It was billed as a bedroom, and I suppose it could be used as one, but it was not your normal bedroom. However, I knew that it would make a perfect playroom…
The final part in a 5-part series about how to decorate your Christmas tree How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 1 (Getting started, choosing a theme, adding lights and floral accents) How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 2 (Putting up large and specialty ornaments) How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 3 (Putting up ball ornaments)…
Part 4 of a 5-part series about how to decorate your Christmas tree How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 1 (Getting started, choosing a theme, adding lights and floral accents) How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 2 (Putting up large and specialty ornaments) How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 3 (Putting up the ball ornaments)…
Part 3 in a 5-part series about how to decorate your Christmas tree How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 1 (Getting started, choosing a theme, adding lights and floral accents) How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 2 (Putting up large and specialty ornaments) Technically, this post should have been included with Part 2. But I…
Part 2 in a 5-part series about how to decorate your Christmas tree. How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree: Part 1 (Getting started, choosing a theme, adding lights and floral accents.) How to decorate your Christmas tree Hide bare spots with large ornaments Once you have your lights, flowers, floral picks and bows up it’s time…