This post is sponsored by DecoArt. I am a DecoArt Core blogger for 2016-2017 and enjoy using and sharing some of their products with you. All thoughts, opinions, and styling are all mine. What colors do you do for Christmas? I pretty much always include red except for the year I did an all neutral […]
A rocking chair front porch
I knew when we decided to buy this house that front porch was going to be perfect for rocking chairs! So I started looking at yard sales, browing Craigslist and facebook yard sale sites, and even watching for clearance deals in stores before we even moved. I wasn’t finding any! After we got the bushes all […]
Beginning work on landscaping at our new house
So if you remember from the last post this is what our house looked like when we bought it. We did some work trimming bushes but realized that the bushes were in too bad of a shape and way too many of them to attempt to save them. So the next step was to pull […]
It’s a jungle out there–and how we tamed it
So excited to start showing you some things we have been busy working on to the outside of our new to us fixer upper house. Here is new house on the day we closed. I seriously have to just laugh when I go back and see these pictures. What in the world were we thinking […]
Our first home before/after pictures
Well, I had hoped to wrap up every room in our old home with lots of before/after pictures each in a separate but to be honest my heart just isn’t there anymore. And my computer time is very limited because of a sweet little baby. 🙂 So I decided to conclude that chapter in our […]
Controlling the garage door with my smartphone
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Chamberlain for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Our new home has introduced another new thing to us – an automatic garage door opener! We didn’t have a garage door opener at our last home when we bought it and never bothered installing […]
New flooring and new paint in the living room
I am so excited to share some updates on the new house today! I still have a few rooms left in the old house to share but figured I would take a break this week and show you progress on our living room and even a fall post at the new house and then wrap […]
Playroom/Boys Bedroom
Today I am sharing another room from our old house I don’t think I ever shared on the blog. It’s amazing what you whip into shape when your home goes on the market This was our 3rd bedroom at our old house. It was sort of just a spare bedroom with no purpose and completely […]
Guest bedroom at our first home
Hi everyone! I have been working on editing pictures and writing some posts last week and over the weekend so I hope to have lots to share with you in the coming days. First I wanted to go back and finish off posting about rooms in our previous home. I want to compile before/during/after pictures […]
First day of school painted chalkboard
(This post is sponsored by DecoArt. I am a DecoArt Core blogger this year and work on a project each month using DecoArt products.) Can you believe that back to school time is just around the corner?? The summer always seems to fly by. I have taken pictures of my nieces and nephew on or […]