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Kitchen Remodel – Week 5 – One room challenge

I know… I missed a few weeks of the One Room Challenge. It’s not because I don’t have anything to report, believe me. To tell you the truth, this has been kicking my butt! Taking on a complete kitchen remodel in six weeks is no joke. Working on it at the new house (which is one hour […]

$100 Room Challenge – the Laundry Room

When Erin from Lemons Lavender & Laundry started talking about putting together a $100 Room challenge for January, I immediately started thinking that our laundry room could use a little sprucing up. Erin does this challenge almost every month, and I every time I look at her rooms and spaces, I can’t get over just […]

Copper Patina Flower Pots – Modern Masters

Giving New Life to Old Flower Pots – One of the things I’ve been working on is adding texture and pattern to each space around the house. In the past, I liked to keep everything nice and shiny and new looking, but it tended to get a bit boring to look at. I knew I definitely […]

Pins I’ve Tried: Mustard on a Burn

Take the Sting out of Toaster Burn Yes, you read that right, a burn – not a bun. Did you ever burn yourself taking toast out of the toaster? Or pick up a still hot pot and get a little burn? I call them hotspots. I have, too many times to count. It always smarts […]

How to Reupholster a Footstool the Easy Way

Making something old and loved, new again My father recently gave me a footstool he had as a child. It had definitely seen better days, but it was still solid and sturdy. I wanted to give it a new life after all the years of service it had put in for his family – it […]

Cleaning the Air – the Febreze Air Purifier

Have you ever thought about how to clean the air you breathe in your home, not just cover up the stink? The Febreze Air Purifier does just that. We’ve basically got a small zoo here at our house – 4 dogs, 4 cats and a parrot – not to mention we have four kids too. […]

Art I Would Put On My Walls

Thrift Store Art – I love spending time flipping through the artwork at my favorite thrift store. There is so much art in this world, something for everyone to love – and art at thrift stores makes it affordable. After filling my art gallery bathroom with thrift store art, I didn’t expect to buy any more pieces […]

How to Get Rid of Woodpeckers

What We Did to Keep Woodpeckers from Destroying Our House If you’ve ever had woodpeckers decide that they like to make holes on some part of your house, you know how hard it is to stop them. This is what we did to get rid of the woodpeckers damaging our house. We have two columns in […]