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DIY Mason Jar Drinking Glass Charms

Mason jar charms with martha stewart crafts glass paint

The measure of true friendship is a bud who will craft with you, I’m pretty sure. It still counts if you lure them in with the promise of getting to play with Plaid’s new Martha Stewart glass paint. And true friends, when they walk in your house for a craft night and see that you’re […]

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Making a Home for Memories

We held my brother Casey’s memorial service this weekend. People from across our lives and across the country gathered together: some who knew and loved my brother and some who never met him but came anyway to say with their actions that they cared. Each person in each pew formed a harmony of love and […]

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Stepping away for a short time…

Hi friends. Just a short note to let you know that I won’t be around this week. We lost my brother unexpectedly over the weekend, so we’ve been spending time with family since then. I haven’t even opened my laptop until this moment, so if you’ve left comments or sent me emails, I will respond, […]

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Yard Sale Shopping: How to Find Good Sales, Know When to Shop and Score Great Deals

Garage sale deals in a girl nursery

Whenever I decorate with yard sale finds, I often get comments from friends that they never find good stuff at yard sales. They say they must be going to all the wrong sales, or every time they go yard saling it ends up being a waste of time, or they wish they just knew “The […]

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{Blogging without Borders} 50 reasons why the laundry room is still unfinished

Today is the final installment of the Blogging without Borders Series, in which some blogger friends and I challenged ourselves to try new things, think outside the box, and post the final results today! Since I’m positive you all marked this blessed day on your calendar months ago and have been up all night refreshing […]

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Introducing Reader Questions: 5 Renter-Friendly Temporary Wall Covering Solutions

5 wall covering ideas for renters at View Along the Way

I get emails pretty regularly asking for design help and opinions – it is BEYOND me why you guys want my opinion. Don’t you read my blog? – but I thought it would be fun to start a new Reader Questions series here. You submit a question, preferably one that has one or two options, […]

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Lamp Hack: How to Make Any Lamp Cordless

How to make any lamp cordless

There’s a common problem in interior design that no one talks about. It’s all very hush-hush, you see. It’s the problem of the lamp cord. (Yeah, I said it.) Everyone always wants to pretend like it’s not an issue. Like they can just plop their desks right down in the center of their room and […]

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Just for fun: Weston’s First Video Tutorial

In this house, you learn the important things first: How to say “mama” How to crawl How to spew pureed bananas all over the floor …and how to use a screwdriver. All by the time you turn 2 1/2. Because we have priorities, you know? Gotta raise these kids up right. And with that, I […]

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{Blogging without Borders}: On Loving Your Decorating Choices

Wall stenciled with navy and white chevron stripes

Woohoo! Time for another round of Blogging without Borders, the biweekly series about stepping out of our comfort zones and trying new things. I’ve been updating my laundry room, which looked like this when we bought our house: And then looked like this when I started this series. (It looks less fuzzy in real life.) […]

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My New Desk, and the Secret to a Happy Husband

Home office with train table for the kids

You probably won’t read this in the books, but I’ll let you in on a little secret to a good marriage: it’s helping your husband feel like he has a purpose. It’s giving him goals and ambitions – in the form of a hefty honey-do list always at the ready – so he can enjoy […]

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Rescue Lamp: A Story of the Transformative Power of Love

Antique Bronze Desk/Task Lamp

It was a sunny Saturday when it came into our lives: our Rescue Lamp. We didn’t set out that morning to adopt a stray, beaten-down lamp, but when we saw it there, lonely, forgotten, abused, marked down to $1 at a yard sale… We knew we had to rescue it and give it a good […]

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What’s Your Take? Brass and Bronze in Decor

waterworks etoile unlacquered brass shower fittings

You might not have noticed, but there’s a little sporting event happening right now in London. I’ve been completely sucked in to the Olympics, have you? The emotion, the stories, the pressure. I can’t look away. Andy and I like to entertain ourselves by deciding how well we would perform against the Olympians in various […]

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Quick Notes: Go-to Greige and the Results of our Africa Fundraiser

Yep, I knew it. I knew you were all pretty fantastic, generous, all around A-plus kinda people. But then you went and gave so very generously to our efforts to send Meagan to Africa during the month of July. If you’re new here, we set out for the month of July to raise $1500 to […]

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{Bloggers without Borders}: Doing DIY Projects in My Sleep

Today begins the last week of what has been pretty much the most amazing summer of my entire adult life. Andy is off for the summer, and it’s my first summer not working since early high school. So yeah. It hasn’t sucked. We’ve done a lot of lazing outside in our beautifully designed and expertly […]

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Be Honest: Could You Do It?

I dare you. I dare you to watch this video and not be changed. Every second is worth watching, but if you don’t have time to watch this whole video, skip to about 3:30, and watch it until 5:40. I dare you. Because I want to know, honestly, in the deepest part of your heart, […]

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