Disclosure: Post and giveaway sponsored by XFINITY, but all opinions are my own. Please see below for additional disclosure. Moving. I don’t know about you but that brings a sense of excitement, but also brings an even greater sense of dread. Oh, the to do lists! Packing, sorting, finding boxes, turning on/off utilities, changing your […]
Rustic Fall Mantel with DIY Wood Pumpkins & DIY Barn Wood Shutters
My fall mantel is usually my favorite mantel of the entire year and this one is NO exception! I LOVE how it turned out and I had some much fun adding some DIY wood building projects to it this year to give it lots of character. I built the rustic wood pumpkins too (tutorial here) […]
DIY Rustic Wood Pumpkin Stand
This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. I am SO excited to share not only a FALL project with you but a wood building project as well with you today. Can we just talk about how ADORABLE these wood pumpkins are? And YOU can make them for you home too! I built two of […]
How to re-paint your yucky white cabinets
Oh I am so excited to finally share this post and more than that excited that my kitchen looks like THIS now! Just so you can get full appreciation for how far it has come… this is how my kitchen looked like before in June. And here’s how it looked after we installed our new […]
Using wood crates to decorate for weddings and parties
Disclosure: I was provided crates and pallet from CratesandPallet.com to use whoever I wished, but all decorating ideas and opinions expressed are all mine. Since we just talked about using old windows to decorate your home, let’s talk about using some other wood objects in decorating … and that is wood crates!! The trends of DIY […]
Decorating ideas for old windows
I LOVE old windows and use them all throughout my home. In fact I picked up this 9 pane big old woo window at the Habitat for Humanity Restore last week (it was $10) and it got me thinking where I was going to put it and what I was going to do with it. […]
Friday Faves + Frugal Finds: Neighborhood yard sale finds!
Hey everyone! happy Friday to you! I hope you have some fun plans for this weekend. And if you end up doing some thrifing or yard sale shopping pop over to my facebook page and share your finds – I LOVE to see what you find too. Two weeks ago, a friend told me her […]
New paint in the Breakfast area
Thank you so much for all your opinions and weigh in options on my last post on what I should do in my eat-in-kitchen/breakfast area in my kitchen. I am currently in the midst of a kitchen makeover which of course sort of extends into the attached breakfast area. The kitchen has almost been completely […]
Friday Faves + Frugal Finds: fall finds and home decor
Hey everyone! Hope you have had a good week! I got more done on the kitchen that I plan to share with you next week – so ready to have it all done! But first let’s share some fun frugal finds… I am so ready to move into the fall season of yard sales! […]
Breakfast area paint colors–help me decide!
So I am just about done painting the kitchen cabinets (not in this picture – I took these pictures when I had the kitchen all cleaned up to photograph the beadboard backsplash before I took installed the new $4 light fixture and took down all the doors to paint them.) I want to still paint […]









