Year-end is the perfect time to take a look back at all we've completed throughout the past year. Take a look at your year in quarters (this is my analytical bookkeeping brain talking) and see where you were and what you accomplished as you moved through the year. Doing this helps to set new and possibly bigger goals for the upcoming year. It's something I encourage you all to do because setting goals can lead to success.
This post started off as a review of my own furniture projects ...
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I Quit December!
I quit! It's a few days before Christmas and I just can't take anymore. I quit. I quit the shopping, the wrapping, the shipping, the traffic, and the crowds. I quit all of the extra shipping boxes, gift boxes, shopping bags, and pine needles strewn throughout the house. Yup, the overwhelm is enough to send any Mom of littles over the edge.
We are superwomen. We have been known to do it all.
September rolled around and the kids returned to school. We juggled buying school ...
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Create a Comfortable Home with Finds from Wayfair
We're just about finished with our Christmas shopping in our house. It was a very practical year. Clothes, shoes, a few other necessities and, of course, chocolate. Every year someone in the family gets something a little bigger than the others. Something useful. This year, my teenage son is the lucky one.
My son has been asking for a sofa for his bedroom since last Christmas. He has two rocker gaming chairs, but rarely uses them and being that they are smaller pieces, they make the room feel ...
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Painting a Layered Look in One Easy Step
Painting a layered look doesn't have to mean three different types of paint, two different grit sandpapers, and a topcoat that seals it all in. Paint finishes like that also mean that one small knick or scratch and touch-up is nearly impossible. There's an easier way. Let's talk about painting a layered look in one easy step - which also make future touch-ups super easy.
Painting a Layered Look
Do you have a piece of brown-stained furniture that you love, but don't love the ...
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Gift Guide: Our Favorite Things
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love the Fall weather, the food, the family, and that it's completely calm before the holiday craziness. The week before Thanksgiving when I'm most relaxed is the time when I get most of my Christmas shopping done. I'm here today to help you do the same with a list of some of our favorite, can't-live-without items in our home.
Gift Guide of Favorite Things
P.S.: I tried to our favorite things on Amazon for you so you could immediately add them to ...
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Tips from the Pottery Barn Catalog to Create a Cohesive, Cozy, Uncluttered Home
Do you look around your home and wonder how you'll ever achieve that catalog-perfect look in your living room? Well, ladies, wonder no more! Let's go through the Pottery Barn catalog together and I'll point out exactly how they create a cohesive, cozy, uncluttered home. ...
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Before & After: Hunter Green Dressers
Do you have statement piece in your home? That colorful piece that draws your eye to it as soon as you enter a room? That piece of furniture that may be surrounded by neutral-colored walls and monochrome furnishings, but that demands attention because of its bold finish? That was exactly my intention when I designed these Hunter Green Dressers.
Color doesn't always have to be bright and blinding to be a stand-out. It can be bold and strong with a touch of masculine, even on a more ...
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The Best Pure White Paint for Desks & Vanities
Do you have girly girls that love to paint their nails? Or art or craft-loving girls that love to paint? Then you most likely have a tabletop in your home that's covered in paint, nail polish, permanent marker, and glitter. You didn't really think that pretty, pure white desk or vanity you put in their bedroom was going to stay that way did you? Today, I'm going to show you the best pure white paint for desks and vanities so you can get them looking like new again.
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Cow Pie Bingo Fundraiser
Over the past month I have been lucky enough to observe the work of some true fundraising professionals in action as they took a new fundraiser idea from concept to completion. The staff and board members of the James L. McKeown Boys & Girls Club in Woburn, Massachusetts successfully planned and implemented a MooFest event with the main event being the Cow Pie Bingo fundraiser. And yesterday was the big day!
Planning a Cow Pie Bingo Fundraiser
About five months ago, the ...
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This Could Change the Way You Furnish Your Home
Hello Friends! I have an amazing tip for your today. A treat that could change the way you furnish your home or help if you've ever wanted to refinish furniture. So be sure to read all the way to the end...
Have you ever taken an online course? I have. I thrive on them!
Even with all of my years of college, the online courses created by bloggers like myself are some of the most intensive, concise, information-filled, life-changing classes I've ever taken.
Why?
Because ...
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HomeGoods Find: Broyhill Clear Glass Pendant Light
I rarely shop. It's really not something I enjoy. Walking into a store with thousands of items glaring at me is overwhelming for my senses. But every few months I get the urge to wander around TJ Maxx and HomeGoods. Nine times out of ten, I don't buy anything, but every once in a while, I find something that I scoop up so fast the shoppers beside me get a little wind burn from the breeze! Which is exactly what happened when I discovered this Broyhill clear glass pendant light sitting on the ...
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How to Refinish a Table That Is Not Real Wood
Last week I showed you how to transform a solid oak wood table into a modern whitewashed table. The old finished was completely sanded off and layers of stain and paint were layered to create a washed wood appearance. The fact that that table was solid wood had much to do with the products I was able to use on it. But how do you refinish a table that is not real wood?
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How to Refinish a Table That's Not Real Wood
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Step 1: Determine if the Table is Real Wood
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