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The Frugal Homemaker

Your guide to turning your house into a home... one DIY project and yard sale find at a time

Simple Festive Christmas Front Porch

December 6, 2021

Welcome to my simple festive Christmas front porch!  I love decorating my front porch for the seasons and this year I went a bit simpler and created a simple festive Christmas theme.  Before I show you all of this year’s porch I thought it would be fun to go back and see the last 5 […]

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Cozy Fall Front Porch

October 4, 2021

Happy Fall!  I invite you to come and take a tour of my cozy fall front porch!  It can be a bit hard to photograph the whole thing together because of the glass front door so let’s take some close up looks around.  My spring and summer ferns were still going strong here in the […]

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Simple Green and White DIY Spring Wreath

March 16, 2021

It’s slowly feeling more and more like spring and I am so ready for it!  We had beautiful warm and sunny weather last week and I spent the weekend pressure washing and cleaning up the front porch for spring.  That also meant I was ready for a pretty spring wreath to put on my door […]

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How to make a DIY Christmas music wall hanging or mini Christmas music sheet ornaments!

December 15, 2020

This framed DIY large music print that I made last year has become one of my most popular posts! And I completely understand why because it’s one of my favorite projects, cost under $20, and makes such a huge impact especially this song paired with a nativity for Christmas.  #allthepraisehands So this year, I had […]

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Classic Cozy Christmas Front Porch

December 15, 2020

Decorating my porch for Christmas is always fun each year! I usually do a specific theme but this year was really focusing on using items I had used in past years or at different times and I just sort of created a classic cozy Christmas look.  I always wanted a centered front door with room […]

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Fall dining room and Thanksgiving table

November 9, 2020

It’s November which means Thanksgiving is near – I cannot wait to gather together with family in just a few weeks for our big Thanksgiving meal!  Today I am sharing my fall dining room and a simple Thanksgiving tablescape.  I honestly don’t think I have shared a whole post on my dining room (horrible blogger), […]

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How to age Terra Cotta pots with paint + a simple spring garden centerpiece

March 4, 2020

It may be raining non-stop and not exactly feel like spring outside, but that’s not stopping me from doing some gardening, planting, and spring decorating!   I had a lot of fun pulling together this simple spring centerpiece and thought I’d show you how I took some inexpensive terra cotta pots and gave them a […]

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Cozy Neutral Winter Living Room

January 9, 2020

We’ve started out January with some dreary/rainy winter days so I don’t know about you, but I need cozy, pretty spaces to ward off the winter blues inside my home.  I love using lots of my recent and previous Christmas clearance finds to decorate for winter and can’t wait to show you my cozy neutral […]

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DIY Christmas Skis made from Picket Fence Pickets

December 6, 2019

How to make DIY decorative skis for from a picket fence picket I’m back today to show you how I made the decorative skis on my ski lodge inspired Christmas mantel! Did you guess what they were made from?  If you have been following my blog you know last summer I picked up a truckload […]

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Ski Lodge Inspired Farmhouse Christmas Front Porch

December 4, 2019

I am so excited to be joining in a Christmas Porch Tour today!  You are in for a treat because there is lots of Christmas porch inspiration starting with my front porch and then scroll to the end for a bunch more porch tours including front porches, back porches, sunrooms and more!    I don’t […]

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Hi!  My name is Christina . . .

I love doing simple, frugal things to make our house feel like HOME! Come learn along with me how to have a beautiful home on a budget.

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