Happy official beginning of FALL to you! I have been busy decorating my home for fall and can’t wait to start showing you all of it over the next few weeks. So let’s start first with the living room. I am currently hosting guests in my home and really wanted to create a warm, cozy, […]
Fall project round up
Judging from the conversation on facebook last night, Post by The Frugal Homemaker. …many of you are still experiencing summer temperatures or holding on to those last few days of summer. BUT, for those of you that the weather has already turned cooler, or who are longing for the weather to turn cooler, or […]
Friday Frugal Finds:Value Village home décor, new pillows, table linens, milk glass, and more!
I had a great shopping trip at Value Village a week ago. I have really been finding some great deals there lately. Liz Claiborne white sandals – $1.99 Set of 4 brown placemats – 99¢ each. Set of 4 white napkins – 49¢ each. Have really needed some new white napkins and these are […]
Some new kitchen art + a little bit of fall decorating
I made just a few inexpensive, 5 minute changes in the kitchen and thought I would show you. This picture was taken back in January when I did my eat in kitchen home tour post. I have a whole list of things I want to change in the eat in kitchen in that post along […]
July + August recap
I don’t know why I always forget and turn these 1 month recap posts into 2 month recap posts but it just has seemed to work that way most of the year. So in case you missed some things around there during the summer when you were vacationing, or enjoying some time off… here’s what […]
Friday Frugal Finds–$2 bench, $12 nightstand, and more
I know you have been just waiting inpatiently to see what this $2.00 piece of furniture was that I brought home from Value Village 2 weeks ago. Here’s the picture I posted on Instagram and Facebook. And then because I did my 5 mantels in 5 days series last week I didn’t post my normal […]
EASY, no-sew fall subway art pillow
This post is sponsored by Martha Stewart Crafts/Plaid and BluePrint Social. Ok, I couldn’t resist… I completed my first fall project. I know… I know some of you really want to wait until after Labor Day until you decorate for fall, or even think about fall, and I usually do too. But September is just […]
Yard sale basket spray paint makeover
I hope you enjoyed mantel week last week! While I was busy posting those posts last week, I was also busy doing some purging/organizing/rearranging and some projects. So you will see some of those things pop up on the blog in the next few weeks. Today I have a simple spray paint makeover project to […]
Cottage or Coastal themed decorated mantel (1 mantel decorated 5 ways series)
So I saved the best for last Ok, not really but out of all the mantels this is probably my favorite and it is the one currently displayed in my home until I decorate my fall mantel in a few weeks. For one reason because I am still hanging on to those last days […]
Classic Black & White family photos mantel (part of 1 mantel decorated 5 ways series)
So today’s mantel is a bit different. And I didn’t necessarily have the perfect components to show you but I worked with what I had. The vision I have for a mantel like this is a collection of family photos all layered on top of each other and grouped together on the mantel. They could […]