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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

House tour: Laundry Room

February 20, 2013

Today let’s take a tour of my laundry room!  But before I show you what it looks like today, let’s go back to the beginning. Our laundry room is upstairs in between the 3 bedrooms.  LOVE having it up there since most of the dirty laundry (except kitchen towels) are taken off and put away […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: fun clearance finds!

February 15, 2013

No thrift store or yard sale finds to share with you today.  But sometimes my “frugal finds” consist of clearance finds too! Like these recent lamps I found at Kohl’s. I have LOVED these glass ball lamps since I saw them a year or so ago for the first time, I am sure on a […]

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Valentine’s Day Tablescape (Valentine tablesetting)

February 13, 2013

Sharing a simple Valentine’s Day tablescape I put together the other day.  I LOVE setting a pretty table – it is so pretty and fun to me. You really just need a few things to do it too – some basic white dishes, maybe another color of dishes, some napkins (could even be paper), and […]

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Valentine’s Day Mantel {Valentine Mantel}

February 11, 2013

Excited to share my Valentine’s Mantel with you today! I really liked how it turned out.  It all started when I saw a blogger (can’t remember which one?) post about a pom-pom garland at Michael’s.  So I picked some up a few weeks ago – $2.99 each but I had a 20% off your entire […]

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Home Goals 2013

February 8, 2013

No frugal finds to share with you this week.   Hope to have some to share next week, if not I have some clearance finds I will share that I have found recently (and LOVE!) I am way overdue for this post – my home goals for 2013.  I even debated about not publishing it […]

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House tour: Dining room

February 6, 2013

Sharing our dining room as part of the home tour this week. I won’t share tons of details as I have already published a detailed before and after post of our dining room last spring.  But I wanted to share some updated pictures and also share what I love and any things I want to […]

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Winter White Valentine’s wreath

February 4, 2013

I have a confession.  My front door has been naked since Christmas.   Very sad and I just couldn’t take it anymore.  He needed some adorning and fast! I wanted to do a Valentine’s wreath but I have one problem – my front door is burgundy.  And most Valentine’s wreath are RED.  Red and burgundy – […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: 1/2 price day at Value Village

February 1, 2013

First, let me say thank you to all of my wonderful readers!! You gave me some great feedback on my house tour kitchen post.    I loved many of your suggestions and can’t wait to get to work on them! If you follow me on facebook, you saw that I went to 1/2 price day at […]

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House tour: Kitchen (the good, the bad, and the ugly)

January 30, 2013

Today you get to take a tour of my kitchen.  Once again, I love the open floor plan.  I showed you how the eat –in kitchen and living room all open up into each other. Right off of the kitchen is the dining room.  I shared you a full before/after post of that room but […]

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Friday Frugal Finds: Games + Valentine decor

January 25, 2013

Excited to share some more frugal finds this week with you!  I even yard sale shopped in January. I went by a local thrift store (Repairers of Breach) and picked up 2 games and a Scattergories refill pack  – paid $1.00 for each of them. I was excited to find the Scattergories refill pack as […]

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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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