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DIY Playground Part 4: Adding the Roof

I’d like to start out by saying this: It’s not my fault. When you start a blog, you set these mental goals for yourself: Try not to suck. Have fun. Find someone who will read it who did not birth you. Always be honest. Never talk about the Pythagorean theorem. Stuff like that. Today that […]

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Our Progress on Africa! And {July Sponsors}

If you’re just jumping in, July is a special month here. Because together we’re doing something so special, something so big, that it will directly impact the lives and futures of sweet babies across the world who have no parents. (Details here – I’ll tell you how far we’ve come on our goal in just […]

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DIY Playground Tutorial, Part 3: New Ramp and Tower Changes

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY. After a year of our poor tiny child having to live without a roof over his head, we’ve provided shelter. (On his playset.) We left off with our DIY playset tutorial – see part 1 and part 2 – unsure how we’d be creating a roof on the tower portion, with promises […]

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5 ways to makeover dated lineoleum floors!

How to Makeover redo Dated Vinyl Flooring Floors Linoleum lino easy cheap inexpensive

Remember a couple weeks ago, when I told you guys I’m (very fearfully) jumping into a blogging series with some of my favorite bloggers in which for some crazy reason we’re all going to try new things? And remember how I said I was going to try to redo my laundry room on a tiny […]

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Mila Owns I Love Thrifting Day

Last weekend, a large deal-hungry crowd of ferocious hunters descended upon several local thrift shops for I Love Thrifting Day in Atlanta. Looks like a pretty vicious group, right? READY TO ATTACK. Before we set out on our mission, we met for breakfast at a tasty local shop to get sustenance and energy for our […]

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Centerpiece Challenge: What Would You Do?

Filling a vase with roses and greenery

Here’s your challenge, if you choose to accept it. You have just arrived in Michigan to introduce your new baby to her family… Baby Mila with her Grammy ..and to celebrate your sister-in-law’s new baby with a baby shower: Cousin Danielle, Sister-in-law Tiffany, sister-in-law Ashley and me You haven’t been very involved in the planning […]

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Staining Wicker Baskets, and Finding The One

Wood stain on wicker storage baskets

THANK YOU to everyone who has given to help send Meagan to Africa so she can take care of the orphans there! We’re 10 percent of the way there and I’d love for you to give! I’m only asking for $10. That’s it. Check out the details here! Do you believe in soulmates? You know, […]

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What We’re Doing Together: You and Me.

We’re about to do something amazing together. You, me and God. Something we’ve never done here before. Let’s use the internet – tiny pieces of electrons and magic (or whatever) – to do something that stretches across miles of ocean, across continents, to a tiny mission in the southern part of Africa where kiddos at […]

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Bookshelf Styling: In Which All My Decorations Come Out to Play

Bookshelves office built-in bookshe;f

Someday you and I will have a conversation with our kids or grandkids or creeped-out-neighbor-children-who-just-want-us-to-leave-them-alone in which we tell them about the times before tablets and nooks and kindles when people read “paper books.” Which had “spines.” And “pages.” And you had to physically turn the pages and sometimes you got papercuts and it was […]

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Introducing a New Project: {Blogging Without Borders}

I found all your lost socks. They’re in my laundry room, stuck in that unreachable abyss between the washing machine and the wall. Meet my laundry room. Sorry about all your missing socks. I’m telling you, there are hundreds in that unreachable nook. They can’t all belong to us. I think they all congregated there […]

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Reminders in the Mundane

Family feet on upholstered bed

Today I pulled the kids’ clothes out of the dryer and shoved them unceremoniously into the laundry basket. It was a mundane task. It was a chore. But suddenly the sight of the full laundry basket sent my little heart spinning into orbit. Little boy socks with a permanent mud-ring at the top of the […]

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Making My Dream Backyard a Reality (kinda)

Like you, I want my backyard to be a haven. A safe, private place where my crazy two-year-old can run wild through sprinklers in his underpants. A beautiful mecca of relaxation and calm. I want it to look like this picture I found on pinterest: source I mean really. Is that place even real? I […]

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Open Letter to a Front Porch {Guest Post}: It All Started with Paint

Whenever someone knocks on my front door, I’m always surprised, and kind of proud of that person. Because it means that they walked down our front sidewalk and were NOT kidnapped, strangled and eaten by the carnivorous weed jungle that used to be our front flowerbed. I’m like, “Yay! Another survivor! Welcome to our home!” […]

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My Future as a SuperBlogger: Expectations of Haven

I may have mentioned once or 500 times that I’m attending Haven, a conference for DIY/home bloggers which is finally happening this week. On Wednesday night, if you feel the earth shattering? That was my whole universe exploding from pent-up anticipation and unbridled joy at finally meeting some fellow blog friends who I’ve just about […]

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Tutorial: How to Sew Lined Back-Tab Curtains

back tab drapery curtain panels

Let’s just get this out of the way: I don’t know whether to call these “curtains” or “drapes.” Or “drapery panels.” Or “window dressings.” Skivvies for your wall orifices? I also never know whether to say “armoire” or “armuaaaaahh.” Or “vase” or “vahhhze.” Also unfortunately, my sewing skills are about on-par with my decor-pronunciation (in)abilities. […]

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