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Little Girls’ Room Reveal

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It feels AMAZING to check our little girls room off the proverbial list. Knowing that my kids have a peaceful (and gorgeous) sanctuary to escape the chaos of renovation makes me so happy. And it makes them happy too!To think I was stumped with how to decorate their room a few months back! *This post is sponsored by our friends at MODSY! Thank you for supporting the fabulous brands that ... [ Read More ]

4-Year-Old Gift Guide

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Our girl turned 4 last week, and I just CAN'T. Something about my youngest going from 3 to 4 feels like I'm losing my baby. I know she'll always be my baby... blah blah blah. But age 4 definitely seems more big-kiddish. And the moment she starts calling it an 'umbrella' instead of 'Gumbrella' I will seriously lose it.Despite her Birthday being in February, Cypress decided LAST FALL she ... [ Read More ]

Stained Art on Wooden Box

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I've been itching to do another stained art piece using my Shading with Stain Technique. If you haven't tried it yet, I'm warning you it's addictive! I get emails all the time from readers sharing their work, and I'm BLOWN AWAY by the talent. Some of you are putting me to shame!If you've been itching to try this technique for yourself, you can either check out my ... [ Read More ]

Make your own Grimm’s Rainbow

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I've silently drooled over the wooden Grimm's Rainbow toys for years. There's just something about wooden toys that just feels so organic and RIGHT. Pair that with vibrant colors and curves, and I'm so far gone.If you're not familiar, or don't understand the draw, click here to see some of the fun things you can do with this ... [ Read More ]

Modern Circle Shelf Tutorial

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This circle shelf project has been in the works for weeks, and I'm so excited to be able to share it with you FINALLY! Whenever we do a video along with our blog post tutorial, it seems to take longer to edit the video than to execute the entire project. *eye roll emoji*But we're getting faster... I think? And it turned out pretty amazing (can I say that?)As you know, we've been slowly ... [ Read More ]

Snow Candles

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I have fond memories of making snow candles as a kid, and I've been hoarding (gathering from yard sales and thrift stores) candles to melt down to do this project with the kiddos!You can also use paraffin wax for this, and you can also tint the colors of your candles by adding broken crayons! But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.Here's what you needSnow day (bored kids) and ... [ Read More ]

Kitchen updates – Slow and steady wins the race!

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We're coming up on a year of owning this house. We never dreamed that the kitchen would take this long to complete, but we've settled in to the no-kitchen lifestyle (AKA camping in our own house) and I'm not complaining. Our ancestors didn't have running water or electricity, so I think I can handle cooking in a crockpot and doing dishes with 5-gallon buckets of water from the bathtub until ... [ Read More ]

Faux Planked Table Transformation

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Good morning and good Tuesday to you! I wanted to post yesterday, but I was overcome with the Monday-ness of the day, and ended up wandering aimlessly in my pajamas, eating peanut butter.But today is a new day! And I have a fun furniture transformation to share!This is actually an older post from our archives, and I get questions often to share a more detailed tutorial for how to get this ... [ Read More ]

Triple IKEA Rast Hack

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I'm finding that when our shop is a hot mess, it makes us dread (and therefore put off) any projects that require us to be in there. This was also the case at the old house, but at least then all we needed to do was go clean it. Our current shop situation is that only half of our tools are unpacked, there's no work bench, things are strewn all over the room with absolutely no measure of ... [ Read More ]

Looking Back at 2018

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Well folks... 2018 was one for the books.Every year, between Christmas and New Years, I set aside some time to look back through a year's worth of blog posts and projects and gather them up in one happy/tidy post. Kind of like a recap of the whole year.In doing so this time around, I was shocked by just how much we squeezed into a single year. Sometimes it feels like we bit off more than ... [ Read More ]

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