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The next stage

We have news! We got family photos done! Just kidding, that’s not really the news. But we did, and I’m going to pile them all over this post while I tell you the real news. Oh look, here comes one now! If you’ve been reading here, you might know that I stay at home with [...]

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Yard Sale Style: 7 things to shop for to decorate on the cheap

Creating beautiful vignettes with yard sale decor

Wanna know a secret? Just about every spot in my house sports some kind of garage sale find. When I was a kid, my mom and grandma used to drag me all over town while they shopped garage sales and it was miserable. Nothing made me want to cease existing more than going to yard [...]

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{Giveaway}: $150 credit to Decorator in a Box

all the furniture, accessories colors, paints and fabric samples handpicked for your space design.

Often, decorating is fun, and sometimes it’s even easy and everything falls right into place. But some days, let’s be honest: you just wish someone would come along tell you exactly what color to paint the walls… …or which fabric to use for what… …or – okay sure, if you’re offering – deliver a full [...]

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Happy Mothers Day!

To ALL mamas. To the moms of little tinies who wistfully recall the days when you could shower with the bathroom door closed, but still recognize with a deep urgency that you’re living smack-dab in the middle of “the good old days…” To the moms whose kids are now having their own… (To my mom!) [...]

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What’s Your Take?: Accessorizing with Busts

Decorating with sculptural busts: yes or no? Come give your opinion!

Today I’m asking YOUR opinion, and I hope you’ll weigh in in the comments section. What’s your take on decorating with busts? Not THAT kind of busts! You GUYS. Just be mature. Like ME. *ahem* In the last post, I showed you my new little friend, Matilda, there on the right. I got her for [...]

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Ditto DIY: Easy DIY Interchangeable Tray ($8!)

First, oops! I keep forgetting to tell you that the Better Homes & Gardens mag with my laundry room will be the NEXT issue, technically June but it comes out within a week or two, I think. If you see it, let me know! Look for silly little me on the very back page, wondering [...]

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It is well…

From the next room, laughter and the banging of toy trains on wooden train tracks distract me from the glowing laptop in front of me, so I pause and listen to a small three-year-old voice giggling and chattering away in conversation with his daddy as Thomas and Friends chug-a-chug up short wooden slopes and through [...]

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No-sew DIY Greek Key Curtain Panels

By “no-sew,” I mean: I totally had to sew to make these curtains, but just to hem them. Hopefully you won’t have to. Or you’ll just be four hundred times more competent with a sewing machine than I am, and can swiftly sew a straight hem without shaking your fist at the sky and cursing [...]

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Yard Sales + Flowers + {April Sponsors}

I went yard saling yesterday and helpfully relieved several burdened homeowners of their useless tchotckes. I spent $3. But I would’ve spent $6 if I hadn’t been a ruthless, cold-hearted negotiator. Not really. Kinda. But not really. By the way, at least where I live, this is PEAK yard sale season: right now, for about [...]

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Inspiration for my new Greek key curtains

We have about a hundred and six places in our house that NEED updating, badly. One of those places is NOT the breakfast nook. But here I am, fixing it up, little by little, finding ways to procrastinate on other parts of the house. Here’s how the breakfast nook looked a few months ago: Then [...]

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