Category: decor
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valentine’s day decor
Just last week we took our tree to the tree recycle park and took down all of our Christmas decorations. And it’s already time to start getting ready for Valentine’s Day! I am looking forward to Valentine’s day because I get to visit my sister who will have just had her first baby… so, my…
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diy stamped cork board
Today I want to share a project that I guest posted over at Poppy Seed Projects Blog, it is a stamped cork board. I always just stuck important papers on the refrigerator but my kids loved pulling the magnets off so I would end up loosing my notes and papers… so I decided to make…
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diy chore chart
My kids are getting to the age where they can be in charge of completing chores during the day. {This is hard for me because I would just rather do all the chores myself to make sure it’s done how I like… I know I’m a bit controlling and I am learning how to share some…
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homemade gift idea
Every year at Thanksgiving, we exchange gifts with my husband’s family. This year, we changed things up a little and did a secret santa gift exchange, but instead of buying for a specific person, we each submitted themes and then we had to buy a gift for that theme. Then at the gift exchange we would find…
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trimming the tree
{DSLR camera settings for this picture: 1/30, f2.8, ISO 800, use a tripod, go about 12 ft from the tree focus on something closer to you like a chair and don’t allow your camera to refocus on the tree before snapping the picture} {DSLR camera settings for this picture: 1/30, f2.8, ISO 800, use a…
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no sew ruffle tree skirt
I have seen these no sew ruffle tree skirts all over, so when I realized I needed a new tree skirt, because I changed my tree decor colors, I decided to try one. I think they look so pretty and I mean… no sew?!… I’m in! I also didn’t want to spend a lot of…
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christmas decor
I love decorating the house each year for Christmas, while playing my favorite Christmas music. This year I changed up the Christmas decor in my living and dinning room, because I re-painted (I still need to show you the before and afters) and I didn’t want to have to buy all new decorations, so I…
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seating place holder -> coasters -> tree ornament
When I was working on my Thanksgiving table decor, I needed to trim the candles down a bit and was leftover with these little half inch pieces of wood. I thought they would make great coasters, then decided to stamp them.first. Cut the logs to about a 1/2 inch.second. I used the stamp technique that…
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thanksgiving table decor
I definitely went back to nature for this year’s Thanksgiving table setting. Not only do I like how it looks, going “back to nature” is pretty inexpensive. My neighbors had a tree that had fallen down, so all of the wood used was from their tree. I made some candle holders by drilling a hole in the…