Happy New year! I am so excited to jump back into tackling projects and working on the house again after the holidays! And even better I am starting off participating in the $100, One Month, One Room challenge with several other bloggers. If you are new to the $100 Room Challenge basically you aim to […]
Top 10 posts of 2017
I love to look back through the year and see the projects that got completed around our house. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like you make much progress, but when you look back you realize you really did! So here are the top 10 posts of 2017 based on how many views each post got… 1. […]
Tips for saving money all year by shopping after-Christmas clearance (+ my 10 favorite things to buy)
Can I tell you a secret – I love after Christmas clearance shopping almost as much as I love Black Friday shopping and even almost as much as I love thrifting/yard sale shopping! There are so many deals to be found and I save so much money not just on Christmas stuff but literally all […]
Buffalo Check Inspired Christmas Living Room
I am so excited to be sharing my Christmas Living Room as part of the Home for the Holidays blog hop! Thanks so much to Jenna from Wife in Progress for organizing this blog hop and welcome if you are coming from Postcards from the Ridge – if you missed her tour, hop over and […]
Our fixer upper home tour one year later
I know everyone is either moved on to Christmas decorating or is busy prepping for Thanksgiving, but I wanted to get this post finished written and published before I started all things Christmas next week. I know some of you may have been waiting to see this post or just some updated pictures of […]
Exterior of our house 15 months later
I had wanted to do a 1 year later post of our house exterior and interior but time has sort of gotten away from me. So this is more like 15 months later but honestly we haven’t done much to the exterior except weeding, trimming and grass cutting since May when we celebrated a year […]
Mudroom gallery wall + DIY coat rack shelf
Sorry I missed my post for last week! I was busy getting ready to host a sign painting party at my house (more on that later!) and life just got in the way. But I’ve still been busy at work in this little hallway/mudroom and I’ll share another post that sort of involves it on […]
$10 yard sale find bench makeover + painted mudroom
I’m busy at work in this little hallway at the garage door and off our kitchen – you can see all my plans for this hallway here and how I plan to tackle it in my own little one month, one room, less than $100 challenge. I got all the doors and trim painted but […]
New paint in the kitchen
I’m always amazed at the power of paint in a room! I am working on catching you up on some changes we’ve made in our house – some were gradual and I just haven’t had a chance to blog them yet. We moved 3 weeks before I had our little girl so I only […]
Hallway/mudroom before + my August challenge
So I’ve decided to do my own one month, less than $100, room makeover challenge during August. I really enjoyed participating in the group one and working on my bathroom back in March, and hope to participate in the group one next month with a different room if things can fall into place. But I […]









