March 13, 2012 in Announcements, Made by Mom
This post has been featured! I am participating in a Crafting Competition: The Crafterbowl. My entry in this round is this burlap flower bouquet. Click here to see my full post and tutorial. Click here to VOTE FOR ME! This button can also be found on my portfolio page: -:- [...]
March 12, 2012 in Made by Mom
This post has been featured! I am currently a participant in the Crafterbowl — hosted by Amie at Pinkapotomus. Each week two “players” face off in a secret ingredient challenge and the “Fans” vote for their favorite crafter. When Amie emailed me Saturday with the Secret Ingredient…BURLAP…I knew just where [...]
February 23, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Yesterday, I showed you the King-Size Pottery Barn Stratton Bed Knock-Off that we built.Today, let me tell you more about the bedding. I know there aren’t as many layers of blankets or throw pillows as the Pottery Barn catalog boasts of. This is a very [...]
February 22, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! When I first posted our plans and inspiration for our Master Bedroom renovation, I showed you this bed, The Pottery Barn Stratton Bed, and shared that we intended to make our own. Usually, it is pictured with an uholstered headboard like this one (we decided [...]
February 17, 2012 in Making our House a Home
Yesterday, I showed you the walk-in closet behind these lovely doors…Today, let me tell you about the doors, themselves I found this set of french doors on Craigslist for $45.Since we bought used doors, they didn’t come with the door jam. So we made one ourselves. It wasn’t too tough, [...]
January 25, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Our computer crashed yesterday. SO FRUSTRATING!!! Really makes me wish I had stood in line for one of those $200 laptops on Black Friday. But I didn’t. So here I am, at the public library with a wiggling baby on my lap trying to stay [...]
January 10, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This Post Has Been Featured! -:- The Kids’ Room was the first bedroom we finished up as a part of our “Big Bedroom Swap Around” …kind of ironic since it was the one I was having the hardest time making decisions about. We actually finished and photographed it last September, [...]
November 26, 2011 in Announcements
This post has been featured ! We like this book. In case you don’t have it memorized like I do, let me summarize: There is an egg on a leaf…*pop* now it is a very hungry caterpillar…he eats 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, and 5 oranges on [...]
November 22, 2011 in Making our House a Home
Last week, I shared some before and after pictures of the kids’ new dresser and changing table top…today, let me show you the coordinating toybox…This toybox is one of several fabulous furniture items we got from Grammy Sammy when she decided to downsize to smaller home at about the same [...]
November 14, 2011 in Making our House a Home
This is the new changing table dresser that has finally made its debut in the kids’ room:This is what it looked like when I picked it up off the side of the road (it had been set out with the trash):I should have taken some close-ups to prove it, but [...]
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