Well, I realize the time for advent calendars started five days ago, but I wanted to share this fun idea today anyway. If you still want to make something like this, you could even do a 12 days of Christmas thing and have plenty of time left this year to get it together. Let me […]

With our new kitchen table arriving soon, this dining room won’t be getting too much action this Christmas season. We’ll have our big dinners in the kitchen and probably most of our day-to-day meals too. This dining room gets to become the fun room! The one we can keep pretty and then only use on […]

Oh my goodness, everyone. The biggest thing is about to happen. The. Biggest. No, we’re not getting our own TV show. No, we’re not moving to Ecuador. (You’re laughing, but my parents actually just did!) That’s right. Our big news is that we are a getting a….. Kitchen table!!!!! I know. Whoa. Soak it in. […]

I have one room, and only one room in this house that is nice and pretty and just how I like it, and almost fully renovated. Well, except for that one wall going up the stairs. And the ceiling. And maybe a few little touches here and there. One thing’s for sure: It’s leaps and […]

Hey! Do you have a large empty space on your wall that you want to fill up with some Christmas cheer? Do you want it to be easy? Do you want it to be fast? Do you want it to cost almost nothing? Do you also want it to be not too too tacky? Try […]

Remember last week when Chris tore down our bedroom wall and exposed the brick? Well, about an hour after it was done he said something like, “It’s been done for almost an hour, why haven’t you decorated it yet?” He was totally making fun of me, of course, because he really doesn’t care whether or […]

Have you ever tried to make a wreath out of fresh greenery at Christmas time? Maybe you had some extra branches you trimmed off your tree, or maybe you picked up some of those bunches of  greenery you can get at the grocery store this time of year. You can either just bunch the branches […]