PROJECTS 11 Easy Spring Kitchen Decor Ideas
Looking for ideas on how to add a little spring kitchen decor? Here are 11 easy ideas to decorate your kitchen for spring. Does anyone know who invented Daylight Savings Time? I want to send them a thank you note. I’m sitting here waiting for my fake tan to dry and using a gua sha tool to try and train...
TIPS 17 Simple Ideas for Bathroom Organization
Looking for simple bathroom organization ideas? Here are 17 ideas to get your bathroom organized for spring. I had my head under the sink in the bathroom with rolls of toilet paper and rolled-up tubes of toothpaste with cotton balls and Q-tips scattered on the floor and my husband walked into the bathroom and asked me if I was nesting....
DECORATING Pea Gravel Outdoor Patio Dining Area
Wondering how to create an outdoor pea gravel patio in the yard? Here’s how we added a patio to a corner of our yard. I’m not sure which I’m more excited about. The fact that we are in the path of totality for the eclipse today? Or that we finished the front yard this weekend (and created the CUTEST pea...
TIPS Best Mother’s Day Gifts for 2024
Looking for creative, unique, one-of-a-kind gifts for your mother? Here’s a round-up of the best Mother’s Day gift ideas to make her day extra special. Just for the record, these are not your ordinary Mother’s Day gifts. Not. Even. Close. These are the most creative and out-of-the-box and one-of-a-kind (and affordable) Mother’s Day gifts that I could find and I’m...
HOUSE Blue and White Office Mini Refresh
I just finished a mini refresh of this blue and white office. Here are some ideas and inspiration for office decorating. This is the door I walk through every morning when I head to work on this blog. My office door. I grab coffee and a few of my hopes and dreams and ideas head into this room every day...
Outdoor Projects Before and After Front Yard Makeover
Does this look familiar? This was the house at Christmastime. Look at that yard. 2023 was a tough season for the yard and the beds and the general vegetation here at the house. We had a snowstorm and two big freezes after everything started to bloom and then there was hail and a TON of unexpected rain. Sigh. Double sigh....
RECIPES Gluten Free Taco Bar
Have you ever been so excited about two things and you can’t decide which to be excited about more? That’s me. I want to share this entire taco bar and how I made it and all the ingredients (and how you can make it gluten-free). And then? I want to share with you all how I conquered my fear of...
TIPS 12 Quick Chalkboard Decorating Ideas
Looking for quick and easy chalkboard decorating ideas? Here’s how I decorate my oversized vintage chalkboard 12 different ways. When you are a true junker or a yard-saler or an auction-goer or a shop-by-the-side-of-the-roader or a thrift store shopper, there is one mantra that you live by. Hope springs eternal. Truth? No matter how many broken dishwashers you find at...
DECORATING 21 Inexpensive Decorative Bowl Filler Ideas
Looking for decorative bowl filler ideas? There are so many inexpensive ideas to fill a bowl in minutes. Here are 25 of my favorites. Can we unpack a decorating challenge? You know. You have a bowl or a tray or an oversized vessel. It’s beautiful and decorative and stylish and incredible and and and and…. …empty. Maybe it’s empty because...
TIPS How To Unstick a Drawer
Have a drawer that sticks and wondering how to unstick a drawer? Here are 5 ways to fix a drawer that doesn’t open and close well. This dresser tucked into the bay window is from my husband’s grandmother. When he rescued it? The bottom drawer was losing its bottom. There were chips and knicks and dents and it was leaning...