Life As Art
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I post to the blog on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays and decided to take this past Thursday off. It was good to enjoy the hustle and bustle of our Thanksgiving Day. What a good day it was. We all cooked and cleaned together to...
Decorative Holiday Pie Crust Molds
With Thanksgiving a few days away and the Holidays approaching fast, I wanted to try something new for our family. The kids love baking and making Christmas goodies, and I love making things cute. Together we're usually a very good team. This Holiday season I...
Life As Art
It’s been a busy week. I can already feel things starting to speed up toward the Holidays ahead. There have been many years where I didn’t look forward to the Christmas season at all. All I could feel was the looming stress and anxiety of the business that was to...
Neutrals & White Cottage Christmas Decor
It blows my mind that nine days ago I was enjoying 68-degree weather and golfing with the kids. Now we have 4 inches of snow on the ground and it's 35 degrees outside. The good news is, it's given me even more of a reason to start Christmas decorating. Today I'm...
Elegant Vintage Bedroom Makeover with Earth Tones
Hello, hello, and oh my! We finished Mary's bedroom for the One Room Challenge! It's time to do the big reveal of this elegant, vintage bedroom makeover with earth tones. Thank you One Room Challenge and Apartment Therapy for pushing us to be our best. I'm proud of...
Simple Dried Orange Slice Ornament Craft
Today I'm so happy to join some talented blogger friends for the 14 Days of Christmas Blog Hop. We're all sharing Christmas cheer and inspiration! I knew exactly what I wanted to try when I heard about this Christmas blog hop. Orange slice ornaments! Simple Dried...
7 Simple Ways to Decorate for Christmas with Fresh Evergreens
Did you all have a good weekend? Yesterday was the day I had set aside to decorate for Christmas and then guess what happened? You'd think this would speed up my decorating for the Holidays, but not really. Instead, I kept looking out the window at our garden and...
Life As Art
How’s your November been friends? It's still Fall at our house, both inside and out. The weather here in Michigan has been so unusually nice lately that the kids and I have been taking lots of walks in the woods. We homeschool so I also let them take their books to...
Buy Used Furniture and Save Thousands
It’s Week 7 of the One Room Challenge. Is this what it feels like to run a marathon and reach the last mile? I think we can make it! We had big furniture decisions to make and a small budget. This kind of budget is only doable if you’re ok with used, or what I like to...
DIY Jewelry Tree Stand
Wow, wow, wow! I am proud to be in the middle of two very creative and ingenious people, my mother and my daughter. I've mentioned Mary before and how we're working on her bedroom makeover together. I mentioned my mother because she helped us with Elsa's bedroom...
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Decorative Holiday Pie Crust Molds
With Thanksgiving a few days away and the Holidays approaching fast, I wanted to try something new for our family. The kids love baking and making Christmas goodies, and I love making things cute. Together we're usually a very good team. This Holiday season I...
Life As Art
It’s been a busy week. I can already feel things starting to speed up toward the Holidays ahead. There have been many years where I didn’t look forward to the Christmas season at all. All I could feel was the looming stress and anxiety of the business that was to...
Neutrals & White Cottage Christmas Decor
It blows my mind that nine days ago I was enjoying 68-degree weather and golfing with the kids. Now we have 4 inches of snow on the ground and it's 35 degrees outside. The good news is, it's given me even more of a reason to start Christmas decorating. Today I'm...
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