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My First Chalk Paint Experience {the Baby’s Dresser}
If you spend any amount of time reading home decorating blogs, then I’m sure you’ve run into posts about ASCP {Annie Sloan Chalk Paint}. I mentioned in a previous post that I had purchased some and was planning to paint a dresser. Well, it’s finally finished and ready to share with you! This is what it looked like before: Sorry…
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Getting it Together, Phase 1
You might remember my post in January, One Step Closer to a Well-Managed Home, where I talked about a Household Management Notebook. Our printer went out right after that post, so I never was able to print out my lists and that project just got pushed to the back burner. We recently replaced the printer {just a few days ago}…
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Painted Pots for the Front Porch
Potted plants and/or flowers flanking the front door have been on my to-do list since we moved into our house 16 months ago. Pots are pretty expensive, though, so I put it off. This spring I decided to use some junky pots that were laying around and spruce them up a bit for the porch. With just two coats of…
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Road Trippin’
Happy Friday, Happy June!! Can you believe today is June 1 already? This year is flying by! source The kids and I are heading out of town today to visit my family. Unfortunately, Bradley can’t join us, because of his work schedule, so I’m doing my first road trip alone with 3 kids in tow. We’ll see how long the…
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Update from the Garden
I shared with you on Tuesday my blogging dilemma: the camera wasn’t working. Really, I just couldn’t find the battery charger, and the battery was dead, so no camera. We thought perhaps we left it plugged in at the hospital when Mason was born, so we were shopping for one at Costco yesterday. We placed one in the cart, and…
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Plans for My English Garden
Sorry I’ve been a bit absent this past week! I came down with something last Wednesday, which kept me out of commission for 24 hours, and then we were out of town until Saturday. Plus, my camera isn’t working, which makes for a frustrated blogger! Hopefully, I can remedy that situation soon. In the meantime, I thought I would share…
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Fabric Covered Boxes for the Nursery {Easy DIY}
Our home has seen its fair share of diaper boxes over the past three years. It wasn’t until about a year ago that I started saving them. I saw several blog posts about covering diaper boxes to use as pretty storage; an inexpensive and pretty way to store items, rather than purchasing decorative baskets or other containers for storage. I…
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Strawberry Cake
Last week we went and picked strawberries as a family. My In-laws were in town, so they were able to help pick berries {many hands make light work}, and corral the kiddos. Even Mason went along; he slept the whole time. We picked 10 gallons of strawberries! 2 of those gallons were for a friend, but with the rest I…
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Celebrating Julia Child & Chocolate Mousse
Perhaps the most famous culinary expert of the 20th century was Julia Child. Often bored and lonely upon her arrival in France with her husband, Julia struggled to learn French and fit into her host culture. Attending culinary school gave her the joy she had lacked and she quickly mastered French cuisine. She authored a cookbook, Mastering the Art…
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All You Need is a Little Paint
We have moved 4 times in our not quite 6 years of marriage, each time living in a different sized dwelling, using various combinations of our acquired home decor. My color schemes have changed a few times over the years, and because of that some things that worked when we were first married just don’t cut it now. It’s not…