Creating a home + life you love
If you give a girl some glitter…
And a group of Dollar Tree Christmas houses…
And she happens to have some pink spray paint…
Then…
Well, this happens.
And a new pink, sparkly Christmas Cottage community is created.
I don’t know about you, but I could live there.
It’s almost a public service if you bring happiness to others with glitter don’t you think?
Hello friends!
It’s that time of year when life seems to go into lightning speed mode as the holidays approach, and all I want to do is turn on my Christmas lights and make cocoa!
As simple as I hoped to keep things this year, being the first year in our “new” to us home, a 1978 mid century modern home, I may have not stuck to those plans entirely.
Are you feeling the pull to fluff your nest and make your spaces in your home as warm and cozy as possible?
I am excited to be part of this Christmas Spaces Tour with some great blogging friends who are SO creative! Make sure you take a moment to stop by each of their beautiful blogs and see what they are up to 🙂
My Christmas space to share today is our Living Room in our new home. We bought our house this summer and boy has it been a whirlwind of projects and more than one night falling asleep with your painting clothes on! [Read more…]
I love wreaths.
And I didn’t realize how many I had (similar to the shock when you survey how many craft supplies you have amassed or what your hoard of furniture to paint looks like) until we moved this year.
Knowing that I could make more, and some of them had been stored haphazardly with skate boards leaned against them and a Barbie dream house crowding them out in our garage, I let some of them go.
It was really freeing, and yes I have a couple things looking back thru the exhaustion of the move and unpacking that I kick myself for getting rid of.
But, alas, armed with a glue gun, some paper and a few other supplies, I was able to replenish my wreath hoard this weekend.
I kept thinking about a magnolia wreath, and I knew I wanted to use this kraft paper cardstock I picked up when it was on sale.
So this is the version of a DIY Magnolia Wreath that I came up with.
Sometimes sprinkling a few new treasures along with our favorites sure does refresh what we already have for the holidays.
The excitement of unpacking the boxes of ornaments, some Bing Crosby playing in the background, and the anticipation of the events unfolding in the weeks to come.
And could I just say that I hope it snows? Can’t you see those beautiful trees topped with snow?
Yes, that means my little car will be sliding around and I will probably regret my request if we get too much!
But there is something so magical about waking up to a snow covered wonderland outside.
I love Christmas, and while I have tried in our new house to keep our decor a bit more minimal, I kind of went all out this year.
More on the full living room and entry soon, I can’t wait to show you how pretty this tree farm is!
And a few of my favorite things…. [Read more…]
Hello gorgeous, I have missed you!
We have spent every waking moment (when not at work) working around our new place painting and getting fix-its done before the rainy weather arrives.
I’m saving a few things for winter that are inside that desperately need a redo, like our kitchen that is getting a much-needed pantry.
Our circa 1978 main bathroom Farrah Fawcett may have feathered and sprayed her hair in.
And navy blue Corian kitchen counters that will either become butcher block or brushed concrete.
These are huge decisions and some of them are taking me a while to decide on.
So I keep pinning and sketching, and probably over-thinking (tell me I am not alone in this) and I have come to the point that I wonder if just going with my gut on each will be the winner.
I’m not usually one to err on the safe side when it comes to my home, I like to be a bit adventurous and try something new.
But since a bathroom remodel and kitchen counters are pretty big commitments I am ok with giving myself the time to figure out what I really want.
One decision that was SUPER easy to make was to try a beautiful new wall stencil for a quick spruce-up in our home office just off the kitchen.
I was provided some stencils to try out and share my experience with by Stencil Revolution and I couldn’t be happier with the results.
We are seeing wallpaper everywhere right now, and while I love the idea of creating an accent wall with wallpaper, the cost and difficulty of removal has always turned me off.
We had this desk at our last house, added a “new” $5 goodwill wood chair, and lots of plants with a few things we already had. [Read more…]
Have you found yourself smitten with a color immediately and you can think of nothing else than it being on your wall?
While we are barely making a dent on the to do list at our new place, I had to eek out some time to make the master bedroom feel relaxing.
I wasn’t going to do what I did last time, and that is decorate and re-decorate every room five times over and leave the master bedroom lackluster for so long.
Not this time.
This time, I saw the color. [Read more…]
For the past ten years I have rented the home we lived in.
It was a lovely home with lots of memories, but we were ready to begin a new chapter.
So we looked a lot online first, and wanting to keep the kids in the same school limited our area.
The real estate market right now is pretty fierce here in the Pacific North West, and more than once we found something, scheduled a time to look at it, and it went pending before we could see it.
We realized that we would need to know exactly what we wanted and be ready to submit an offer quickly when we found “the one.”
Only actually walking thru two homes, the second we immediately knew was what we were looking for.
We found a mid-century modern home built in 1978 on 1/3 of an acre. A huge piece of land in our area, with all the space we need and lots of room to grow and add on if we want to someday. [Read more…]
Hi friends!
I am super excited to share my recently refreshed outdoor space for our front porch. It’s kind of a wonky narrow area so you cant really lose your mind with big pieces.
But before I get into that, I want to thank Katrin from Kreativ K for putting together this fun Outdoor Space hop. If you are not following Katrin and her gorgeous boho-scandi blog, make sure you start, she so creative!
While there are some exciting changes happening behind the scenes while we house-hunt, I still have to have my porch ready for summer. Am I ready for summer? Not so much hah, but at least my porch is rocking a global vibe full of plants and pretty colors.
I find myself flip flopping every few years between a bolder, brighter color palate and a soft, light, neutral color palate.
Lately, everything mid century modern and indie/boho has been making me swoon, so I guess it’s good that I like a super eclectic home and I am not tied to one theme. I am fairly certain this began on an extremely tight budget many years ago, and since I still love to thrift, I have kept going and never questioned what I like.
So, onto the front porch space. [Read more…]
Quilting has absolutely nothing to do with this project.
You like wreaths, I like wreaths, and I bet we both really like an easy DIY wreath that is cool, affordable and quick to make.
I bring the topics of quilts up because I love them, and I am absolutely the worst quilter that ever quilted.
I realized this after carefully shopping for just the right fabrics, planning and choosing the week of a snow storm in the early 90’s to try my hand an quilting.
AND MAKE A QUEEN SIZED QUILT.
Yep.
Queen sized, lots of snow, and the saddest attempt at quilting ever. [Read more…]
Oh friend, I cannot tell you how fun this before and after were.
I always have a running list of things I want when thrifting and junking.
Do you keep a similar list?
Right now mine looks like this (probably pared down due to recent deep cleaning and getting rid of stuff we don’t need)
There are little things too but those seem to be the items top of mind for upcoming projects.
And, this weekend I was able to take one off the “list” a refrigerator for my office at work! [Read more…]
