Thanks so much for all of your sweet comments and encouragement in response to my recent big announcement! I really do feel like I have a huge group of friends who have been with me through this...
A little over a year ago I made a five-part video slipcover tutorial series. I used a wing chair as an example, but you can take these skills and make a slipcover for any piece of furniture. I've...
I posted these last week and was asked by several for a tutorial. I aim to please, so here it is! This tutorial is really from Mini Mustard Seed aka "Mini" aka Charlene. She's my babysitter/nanny...
Welcome to another "Best of MMS" post. A few of you offered up the brilliant idea of sharing some of my past posts while I'm busy working on things for the book, so that's what I'm doing. (I'm...
After a whirlwind week of activities and festivities, we dropped my parents off at the airport this afternoon. We got so much accomplished, it's amazing. I started getting a little teary-eyed...
When I realized I was going to have to hang four curtain rods in the family room, I came up with a solution on how to hang curtain a curtain rod to make sure they are all hung at the same height and...
I've been working like crazy getting ready for the holiday open house and working on other projects, so my home has been a bit of a wreck. Now it's time to focus some attention on things I get to...
I received several requests for the tutorial on building a simple DIY farmhouse table (with just a drill) that was published in the October 2011 issue of Cottages & Bungalows. I just got the...
When I first started my business, I would paint a piece, pull out my camera and snap a picture of it...just right where it was. Usually the lighting was poor, so I used a flash. I would...
I get a lot of e-mail and comments asking questions, but the most common one I receive is, "Where did you get your curtains?" Since I originally posted about them over a year ago (Has it been...