It is time for the December Thrift Store Challenge! I have been participating in these monthly Challenges with a group of very creative bloggers since April. It is so much fun! You can see all my past projects here. The rules for the challenge are that we can purchase something from a thrift shop, garage sale, OR we can revamp/upcycle a piece(s) we already own that no longer worked in our home, OR that we…
Christmas Craft… It is time to start thinking about Christmas! Our neighborhood goes all out during the season. Each house tries to ‘out do’ each other with the decor and people come from all over town to check out the lights. It is not uncommon to see tour buses, trolleys, trucks, cars, even those bicycle pedal pubs full of people driving through here on any given night in December to check out the lights. Most…
What to do with all your saved wine corks… Are you a wine drinker like me? Do you save all your corks like me too? Then they sit there forever in a vase or jar or something and you think, what the heck am I gonna do with all these, but you can’t seem to throw them all away? Sound familiar? A few years ago I made this DIY BAR Sign with my stash but…
I recently made some changes to my dining room and it made such a BIG DIFFERENCE. It’s been a complete dining room refresh. Admittedly, we don’t use this room very often. However, it is the first room you see when you enter the House house. It is just to the right of our entrance way, so even though we don’t use it, I always want it to look nice. Afterall, it is the first impression…
Step by Step – How to Refinish a Dark Wood Table… I loved this table, and it’s color, when we first bought it over 8 years ago, but it just didn’t look right in our home anymore. Especially after I painted the walls white and painted the hutch blue and this thrift store piece blue too. I wanted the table to be more Coastal looking. So, How to Refinish a Dark Wood Table? Read on…
This is the first month of a new monthly blog hop called Creative Thursdays. Thanks to Tara from Stiletto’s and Shiplap, Emily at LeCultivateur and Shae from Sweet Southern Grace for the invite. I am more than happy to be working with such creative ladies. This month’s theme is to create a fall floral arrangement spending no more than $15, using a container we already had. We could use both faux or real florals. Please…
We’ve had this dining room set for a LONG time. We bought it when chocolate brown furniture was all the rage. I still love it’s clean lines and all the storage it offers, and the fact that I get to display all my ‘pretties’. After re-doing this Thrift Store Find a few weeks ago, it really made my old dark brown hutch stick out like a sore thumb in my dining room. Soooooo, much to…
Welcome to Week 6 of the One Room Challenge! It’s Reveal Week! I’ve chosen to transform our Guest Bathroom in this challenge. In case you missed it, you can catch up here on Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5. You can see all the other participants in the One Room Challenge here. There are so many amazing projects, so if you have some time please check them out. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if…
