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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

Front porch part 1: new paint and stain {Sprucing up the Outdoors for Spring series}

April 18, 2012

Thank you so much for all your great comments on my mailbox dilemma post yesterday!  So many great suggestions!  I am eager to get started on it and even took a trip to a discount grower’s outlet yesterday and got some beautiful plants.  So maybe my project will be done in the next week or […]

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Color-filled flower pots {Sprucing up the Outdoors for Spring series}

April 11, 2012

Today we continue with our “Sprucing up the outdoors for Spring” series. We talked last week about planting flowers and beautifying your flower beds.  But I also love to have flowers in pots too!  Ok, I pretty much just like flowers anywhere – indoors, outdoors, in pots… And I like colorful or color-filled flower pots!  […]

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Cleaning out the flower beds {Sprucing up the Outdoors for Spring series}

April 4, 2012

Yep, I am starting another series! Just cause I am crazy like that.  So for the month of April and probably into the first week of May this will be our schedule around here: Monday will feature the “How to shop yard sales” series, Wednesday will be this series “Sprucing up the outdoors for spring” […]

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Spring décor inspiration (part 2) plus Bloggy Progressive Dinner starts TODAY!

March 26, 2012

First off, let me announce today is the DAY!  Our Bloggy Progressive Dinner is happening all this week!  Kristi over at Living Unbound has our first part of our Bloggy Progressive dinner – a yummy, spring/summer drink.  So head over there to check it out! Here’s how the rest of the week will look: tomorrow […]

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Springy mantel (decorated with yard sale finds)

March 20, 2012

Spring… is in the air.  Literally, IN the air!  Everything outside right now is covered in about an inch of yellow pollen. 🙂   But that is ok, we are just keeping the windows closed, waiting for rain, and enjoying the flowers and green trees that the pollen is bringing. So let me introduce to my […]

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Spring décor inspiration (mostly spring mantels)

March 19, 2012

I had planned to post MY spring/Easter mantel today.  BUT I had quite a few comments and emails last week and over the weekend about wanting more spring décor ideas for their home or mantel.  And even more people wanted some specific true to the real meaning behind Easter décor ideas so I thought I […]

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$3.00 Spring Green wreath + a fun invitation

March 14, 2012

So in keeping with our spring posts, next up is a spring wreath 🙂  But not just any spring wreath, a green spring wreath, sort of like a boxwood wreath… and the best part is ALL of the materials came from recent thrifting finds . So I knew I wanted to do something with these […]

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A simple Spring table

March 12, 2012

Yesterday was time change (“spring forward”) which sort of signals the official beginning of spring!  Even though the spring flowers and early flowering trees have been in bloom for several weeks now.  So over the next few days and into next week, I plan on sharing lots of “spring” posts with you – spring wreaths, […]

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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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