About a year ago, my husband found this chair abandoned in an alley and did what any chair hoarder’s collector’s spouse would do and brought it home for me. He’s a keeper, that husband of mine. After that, it sat. And sat. And sat. Until I finally decided to get to work on it. Since […]
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Color Blocked Cleaning Bottles
Are we all in agreement that cleaning is just sometimes no fun? Over at Live Simply today, I’m sharing a colorful DIY to brighten your cleaning routine. However, there is no guarantee cleaning will actually become enjoyable but it’s worth a shot, right? Check out the full tutorial here and let me know what you […]
Basket Case
Let’s talk about baskets today, okay? I never thought choosing a few baskets for toys would be so difficult. I need two, maybe three, for the new shelves I installed in my girls’ shared bedroom. When I thought I finally decided on a basket, I returned to the store to find they were all gone. […]
The Anatomy of a Mug Swap Box
This is my first time doing Mug Swap, which is basically like secret santa with mugs – and in August. It’s also pretty similar to the favorite things swap I participated in previously. Here’s what I came up with for my partner. I was going for a beachy theme which is convenient, since I live […]
The Act of Taming Toys
For months now, I’ve been in the process of turning our girl’s shared bedroom (the one that used to be our’s) into a functional space for sleeping, playing, and storing everything in between. After painting the room but before hanging the black-out curtains, I installed this wall full of shelves. I used Rubbermaid shelving tracks and […]
Dining Table Decisions
Can we talk about our dining room table for a bit? When I first came across this table, I was infatuated. After all, it was a pretty great deal. Since then, I’ve collected (and collected, and collected) more chairs to place around it and we’ve enjoyed many meals at it. I had always planned to […]
Replacing Ikea Hardware
I’ve been keeping an eye out for a new bed frame for my son for quite some time. He previously had a bunk bed mattress – from his previous bunk bed – on a metal bed frame. When it came time for an upgrade to a proper mattress, we landed on this foam mattress. That […]
Displaying a Rock Collection
My son is a collector. When he was younger, we would find piles – and I mean piles – of acorns stashed under his bed, in his dresser drawers and his pockets. Those eventually led to piles of mulch, then teeny tiny pebbles. In time, we explained to him that hey, some things just belong […]
DIY Jump Rope
In grade school, jump rope was my life. That and dodgeball, but since I was much better at jumping than running, I tended to cower in the back, using my classmates as human shields. When a ball would find its way to me, I’d snatch it up and sheepishly attempt to throw it to the […]
A Simple DIY Desk
Our desk situation has recently changed, which you may have noticed in this post. We were previously using a vanity-with-a-story as a desk. It was left in a historic home that my mother lived in when she was a child so it’s been in the family since. We removed the mirror to make it more […]