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The Den (aka Man Cave)

May 21, 2012 in Making our House a Home

Over the past several weeks, I’ve had a lot of home decorating projects to share as we worked to get our CO home ready to sell before our big move to NE. You have now had a tour of my Living Room, Bonus Room, Kitchen, Main Bathroom, Master Bedroom, Master [...]

Our Laundry Nook

May 16, 2012 in Making our House a Home

Our 1970s home does not have a laundry room….just this “nook” in the den.I had been oogling over some other blogger’s laundry room makeovers and decided I might as well make the best of what I’ve got…its’ just a nook, but it could be a cuter nook:)My budget for this [...]

Our Master Bathroom

May 15, 2012 in Making our House a Home

It was quite a while ago that I wrote this post, outlining everything that was wrong with the bathroom which is now a part of our home’s Master Suite. When I revealed our Master Bedroom, I was quite intentional about leaving the bathroom door closed: for the bathroom was still [...]

The Evolution of Our Kitchen

May 3, 2012 in Making our House a Home

A few weeks ago, I revealed our new bonus room…and the week before that, our living room. Sandwiched between them is the kitchen. This is what it looked like when we bought our house:-We bought our house as a foreclosure, so we expected we might have to purchase our own [...]

Our Bonus Room

April 14, 2012 in Making our House a Home

As I told you last week, our home had an addition put on it several years before we purchased it. It is on the rear of the house, beyond the kitchen. Although we have rearranged a few times, we have always used that space as our living room:I have never [...]

Our “New” Old Office Furniture

April 13, 2012 in Making our House a Home

This is our desk: It is a very nice quality set of furniture that was a part of my husband’s bedroom set as a young boy. I was happy to discover that it “came with” my husband when I married him…because we have gotten a lot of use out of [...]

The Evolution of Our “New” Living Room

April 5, 2012 in Making our House a Home

Our home had an addition put on it several years before we purchased it. It is on the rear of the house, beyond the kitchen. We have always used that space as our living room:That left us with what was home’s original living room to use in other ways. We [...]

Reasons to Skip the Housework – A Party of Inspirational Ideas

April 3, 2012 in Announcements, Made by Mom, Other People's Stuff I Like

This week, I am co-hosting the Tuesday Time Out Party with Reasons To Skip The Housework My faithful readers…I figured you would enjoy perusing the party of inspirational ideas: Click on any picture that interests you and you will be directed to that inspirational blog post. And to my fellow blogging [...]

Adult T-Shirt to Little Boy’s T-Shirt: A Photo Tutorial

March 5, 2012 in Made by Mom

A couple of weeks ago, I showed you this picture of our family proudly sporting our church’s “e” logo. I told you that it was the night before we were to bring our plain T-shirts to our church gathering to have them screen-printed that I remembered it was the night [...]

Lady’s Shirt to Baby’s Dress: A Photo Tutorial

February 20, 2012 in Made by Mom

This post has been featured! It was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted that I remembered it was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted. Neither of [...]