glittered house & deer
Now that the floor sanding is behind us, I cannot wait to start decorating the house for Christmas. I walked past live wreaths, garland, trim and tabletop trees at the store this week and was just longing to put one in my cart, but I’m waiting until Thanksgiving passes. I don’t want my live greens […]
tips for sanding floors
This is my second time refinishing floors and I learned a lot through my errors the first go-around. Since scooting around on diaper boxes to wipe up excess stain (you can read about those antics HERE), I have learned a lot about finishing wood and have done a lot of reading on sanding and […]
the sanded floors
This weekend, we finally took the plunge and sanded down our floors. I’ve been wanting to for a long time…well, and not wanting to at the same time. It’s a total pain. It’s messy and it’s really hard work, but I got it in my mind that I really wanted it done before decorating for […]
upholstered Christmas banner tutorial
A few weeks ago, I was browsing Christmas decor and tripped across this sweet “Happy Christmas” banner at Terrain. The vintage-looking stuffed velvet letters appealed to me, but I wasn’t a fan of the color or the unevenness of the letters. I liked the idea of making one, but I had to think through how […]
there's no turning back now…
Thursday morning I got a bee in my bonnet and decided to get a head-start on sanding the floors. I’ve had refinishing them on my to-do list for over a year now, but it is a very not-fun, messy job and I’ve been putting it off and delaying and procrastinating. I’ve been on a mission of […]
furniture feature friday | favorites & link party
This was another week when the entries for FFF blew me away. It’s like everyone is trying to get a bunch of furniture painted, refinished and spruced up before the holidays! Speaking of, can you believe Thanksgiving is just a week away? Wow…yeah. So, next week we won’t be meeting. We’ll all be too busy […]
mason jar "snow globes"
I have to start off by saying how much I enjoyed reading all of the comments in response to my post yesterday. In a way, it was very therapeutic for me to write and I’m glad it was encouraging to others as well. This is definitely one of those not-new-at-all ideas, but they are so cute […]
letter to a new blogger
As I’ve just passed the five year mark of being a blogger, I’ve been thinking a lot about the early days of my blog. I laugh at some of the things I did and wince at others. I pressed the “start a blog” button on blogger with very little clue of what I was getting […]