FURNITURE FEATURE FRIDAY – Favorites & Link Party
Good evening, all! Tonight, I had practice for our church Christmas play and my husband took the boys out trick-or-treating. When I got home, I handed out candy and got the cold, wet little boys in their jammies. My youngest was wearing a Spiderman costume with fake polyfil muscles and it cracked me up. Our […]
FURNITURE FEATURE FRIDAY – Favorites & Link Party
Good evening, all! Tonight, I had practice for our church Christmas play and my husband took the boys out trick-or-treating. When I got home, I handed out candy and got the cold, wet little boys in their jammies. My youngest was wearing a Spiderman costume with fake polyfil muscles and it cracked me up. Our […]
a thoughtful gift & fitness update
I planned this week to get started on some of the pieces on my to-do list, but I have been knocked out with a bad cold/flu sort of thing. It had me bed-bound for a couple of days and has left me dragging through the week. I’m up and about now, but I just haven’t […]
HGTV.com Christmas Tutorials
The Christmas tutorials I wrote for HGTV.com are live now! I know a lot of people have been waiting for these, especially the preserved boxwood wreath. I promised I would link to them when they became available, so here they are… Preserved Boxwood Wreath Boxwood Topiaries Boxwood Kissing Ball I bought all of the preserved […]
be a rule-breaker
I am not a trained designer. My degree is in musical theatre, not interior design. Decorating became my creative outlet when I hung up my tap shoes and tucked away the pancake makeup. I’ve studied decorating by reading home decor books, shelter magazines, watching HGTV, and by a lot of doing and redoing. The nice […]
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I have picked a winning name for the name that cow contest! My newest, sweet little cow painting has been named… Gwendolyn! I kept looking at her and that’s just the name that stuck for me. I’ve also always liked the name AND “Gwendolyn Penn” was a role I played in college and the name […]
Meet Gwendolyn & Lost House Syndrome
I have picked a winning name for the name that cow contest! My newest, sweet little cow painting has been named… Gwendolyn! I kept looking at her and that’s just the name that stuck for me. I’ve also always liked the name AND “Gwendolyn Penn” was a role I played in college and the name […]
Perfectly Imperfect
One of the first bloggers I met in real life was Shaunna of Perfectly Imperfect. I had noticed her painted furniture around the blog world, but a real connection was made when we got to chat at the Blissdom conference in 2011. I basically learned that I had a non-identical twin living down in Alabama. […]