My in-laws have a photo gallery wall in their stairwell that I have always loved!  Their life and ministry have taken them all over the world, so they have various pictures displayed of special places they’ve been.  Bradley and I haven’t been able to travel extensively together in our almost 6 years of marriage, but we have traveled a little, so we decided to frame some of our favorite ‘spots’ and begin working on our stairwell. I had some frames that a friend had given me, so I simply cut some burlap to the size of the frame, placed the picture in the center, and hung them on the wall!…

My mantel has been a work in progress since I took my Valentine’s Day decorations down, somewhere around the middle of March.  I haven’t wanted to spend money on decorations for the mantel, mostly because my big projects right now are the girls’ bedroom and the nursery.  However, the mantel was looking a bit sad, and seeing that it is now the second week of April, I decided to do something about it.  And, guess what?  It only cost me $1 to spruce up this spot!  Yes, my friends, you can decorate with minimal cost, just be creative {and read magazines for inspiration}. I saw an idea in my  Better…

It’s hard to believe that Easter weekend is already here!  We’re not planning much this year, since I’m now full-term with my pregnancy, and trying to stay close to home, but it’s still fun to look at all of the great ideas for Easter decorations that are floating around the internet.  I normally make a big Easter dinner, but I’m not even doing that this year!  We’re getting together with our home group from church for a Low Country Boil {yum!} and that is just fine with me!  For those of you who may be entertaining and looking for some last-minute inspiration for your table, here are a few inspiring…

This morning when I got up I made a list of some projects that have been hanging over my head for a LONG time.  During my sleepless nights these days {pregnancy induced insomnia} one of the things that keeps me awake is thinking about unfinished projects.  So, in hopes of eliminating some lack of shut-eye, I’ve been tackling my list today!  Most things really only took about 5 minutes to accomplish, so it was easy to do in between coloring and tea parties with the girls. The first project was to finally hang something up in the girls’ room.  This project is so easy and I love how it turned…

Today I have another little piece of the girls’ bedroom to show you.  You can read about the paint color and pillows, if you missed those.  And, for anyone who might be a first time reader, this room is a work in progress, so I’ve yet to have an entire room reveal!  Hopefully, more will be done in the next few weeks, but we’ll see… My girls’ bedroom is great, but the layout has always sort of bewildered me.  There is one window, with space on each side for a twin bed, and we had it set up this way for about a year.  That arrangement always proved to be…

If you’ve followed along for awhile, you know that my goal for the month of February was to finish decorating the girls’ bedroom.  February has obviously come and gone, and here we are one week away from April, and I’m still not finished!  I figured that I didn’t need to wait until everything was complete, though, to give you some glimpses of what I’ve been working on.  One project was euro sized pillows for each of the girls’ beds. Over a year ago, before we even moved into our home, I ordered some fabric samples online.  The one I liked best for the girls’ room was $14.98/yard, and I just…

Sorry I’ve been absent for a few days!  Our weekends are Sunday-Tuesday around here, so some weeks I get so caught up with how we’re spending our days off that I forget to blog!  I didn’t even really get on the computer at all over the past few days {which honestly was great} so I have some catching up to do, plus some posts I’d like to share with you. My desire was to have the girls’ bedroom finished by the end of February.  It didn’t happen.  So, instead of showing you a reveal today, I decided to share with you something that encouraged me while I was in the…

Today I’m sharing with you 10 Ways to Use a Drop Cloth in Home Decor.  Maybe you’ve seen all, or some of these, before, but I thought I would provide you with some inspiration all in one place for some new project ideas.  Drop cloths are great because they’re inexpensive, durable, huge, and versatile!  The possibilities are really endless of what you could do, but here are just some of the ways to incorporate them into your decor. 1. Drop Cloth Slipcovers via Inspired by many others who have used drop cloth fabric for slipcovers, I made these covers for my dining room chairs last summer.  They have held up…

The past week has been a flurry of projects as I’m trying to wrap up the major decor items in the girls’ bedroom.  Thankfully, the painting is finished! {well, I should say it’s almost finished.  There are about 24 inches of the highest part of the vaulted walls yet to be painted, but we’re going to wait to get a taller ladder and do that at the same time as the nursery}.  My part is done, though!  I even had enough paint to paint the upstairs bathroom the same color!  Woohoo!!  Bye-bye builder’s grade paint 🙂 Since I’ve had paint on the brain this week, I thought I would give…

A huge thank you to everyone who voted on the fabric choices I mentioned a couple weeks ago.  I thought my mind was made up, and over the weekend, Bradley and I were discussing the nursery again, trying to figure out what we wanted to do.  I had purchased some curtains at Target {on clearance} and thought about cutting them up to make the baby bedding.  Then, when I went online to compare it to my favorite fabric choice, I noticed that Premier Prints fabrics were on sale!!  I quickly perused the options and we definitely liked what we saw.  I had seen these fabrics before, but they were a…