TIPS How to Declutter a Room In 20 Minutes
Looking for help getting your rooms in order after the new year? Here are some simple tips and ideas to help and how to declutter a room in 20 minutes. Raise your hand if you started 2024 with high hopes and dreams and plans to organize your house including all the closets and the cupboards. Does half a hand count?...
DECORATING Cottage Home Tour Filled With Color and Pattern
Happy July. I spent the weekend in Minden, Louisiana. Point of Grace—one of my favorite groups on the planet had a Sips and Songs Event. It was so surreal. I have followed them for 25 years and their songs have been the playlist for so many of the events in my life. And this weekend at 2:00 in the afternoon...
HOUSE How to Arrange Tulips In a Vase
Looking for tips on how to arrange tulips in a vase? Here’s an easy way to create an arrangement that looks like a florist created it. // similar blue and white vase // pink tulips // You know what’s funny about me? There’s the normal way to do things. The way most people go about doing a project or build...
DECORATING How to Decorate With Sunflowers
Looking for creative ways to bring a little summer into the house? Here are tips and inspiration on how to decorate with sunflowers. Last year in record-breaking gardening news we had an entire vegetable garden in our backyard. For the first time ever. Not to be all about the gardener I’m married to, but it was kind of next level....
RECIPES 5 Simple and Easy Last Minute Fourth Of July Desserts
Looking for last minute Fourth of July desserts? Here are 5 simple and easy recipes that are perfect for the Fourth. Maybe it was all those summers I spent on the Cape and celebrating the Fourth at the heart of where our nation was born. Maybe it was the fireworks over the ocean and the bicycle parade and the streamers...
HOUSE Quick Spring Porch Decorating Ideas
Looking for quick spring porch decorating ideas? Here are easy and simple ways to get your porch ready for spring including the prettiest spring tulip wreath. I’m sharing my front and my back porch today (spoiler alert—both of them have these amazing topiaries). // spring tulip wreath // black planters // topiaries (similar and there’s a coupon)// black and white...
DECORATING 11 Products I Wish I Would Have Bought Sooner July Edition
// blue and white polka-dotted dress // I hope you had an amazing Fourth. Around here it was kind of next level. We had the entire family over for hamburgers and hotdogs and relay races. We had the bandana race and the egg toss and the doughnut eating contest and the water balloon toss filled with giggles and laughter and...
DECORATING 20 Best Affordable Outdoor Rugs
Looking for affordable outdoor rugs to makeover your outdoor spaces? Here are some of the best rugs that won’t break the bank. You all were the SWEETEST when I shared my front and back porch. So many questions—including rug questions. So today? This is a post about affordable outdoor rugs. Where you can get them? Which ones have the best...
DIYs How To Monogram a Planter
Need a simple spring refresh for your front porch? Make a DIY monogram planter box and fill it with spring flowers. Here’s the step-by-step. // daisy wreath // topiary bush // solar lanterns // three ball topiary // Just in case you didn’t know? The most brilliant people in the world read this blog. It’s true. You send me emails...
TIPS 5 Decorating Mistakes I Made and the Lessons I Learned
Along time ago in a land far away when I lived in a house in another state I wrote a post. It went a little something like this. Hi. My name is KariAnne (sounds like the word car with a long e). I make decorating mistakes. Lots of them. Here are five of my least favorite. That was then. This is...