A deciduous tree planted on the West, South, or East side of your home can save Summer home cooling energy costs up to 30%! The bonus is that leaves will fall off during the Winter months, allowing the sun to come through and help keep your home warm, giving your furnace a little break too! […]
The best Lego storage. (Ten Second Tips)
Do you have a mountain of disorganized lego at your house? Forget about all of those complicated, expensive and time-consuming lego storage solutions you’ve seen and given up on and just use cheapo clear storage bins instead. So much easier for kids to see everything and it’s a simple enough system that they might […]
DIY Chalkboard done right!
OK, let me just start out by saying that if I was in charge of this chalkboard project, then I absolutely would have gone ahead and done a shoddy job of it. I ended up asking Chris to make this for Kennedy’s room though, so of course he went and turned a quick little […]
Easy Baked Taco Recipe
My gramma and my cousin were in town to visit a couple of weeks ago. I admit that I didn’t do much cooking and didn’t really do the best job of feeding them anything other than restaurant food, but we did make this one recipe together one night and it was delicious! My gramma […]
30 (Plus 1) Things to do with the Family this Fall! (Inspiration Fridays)
Fun on the farm 1. Apple picking – No Fall season is complete without a trip to the apple farm. 2. Pumpkin patch – It’s never fun dragging a lopsided pumpkin home from the supermarket along with the milk, bread and TP. Why not get out and kick off the Halloween season with a trip […]
10 Fall Leaf Crafts (Inspiration Fridays)
1) Fall colors alphabet – Combine your two favorite Fall traditions – Fall crafting and back to school – with this fun idea. Sophisticated crafting for Mom and Dad that creates a great learning atmosphere for the kids. 2) Leafy Storage Bins – I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of dressing up storage […]
How to quit your job in the city, move to the country, and live THE LIFE!
Many people dream of making a move to the country, but not many people realize just how possible it is! In this post I outline how we did just that! My friends, it may not always feel like it but I’m definitely livin’ the dream. My own dream and one that a lot of […]
How to paint absolutely perfect wall stripes!
I’ve always loved the look of wall stripes, but I’ve been reluctant to actually go through the effort of measuring and taping things off because I was honestly a little intimidated. I mean, after putting in all of that work, the end product had better be pretty amazing, right? And perfect. And I don’t […]
19 Easy Cleaning Tricks
If your kids went back to school yesterday like ours did, then you’re probably itching to start getting your house back in order after a long Summer of messes and memories. I mostly worked out in the garden yesterday and worked on a bit of painting in Kennedy’s room, but today I’m definitely in […]
How to paint your ceiling without losing your mind! Easy ceiling painting tips!
Sharing some easy ceiling painting tips today that make the whole job so much less painful. No one loves to paint ceilings, but you can at least keep your sanity. 🙂 A lot of the time when people tackle the job of painting a room, they just do the main part of the wall […]
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