Birthday parties can be labor intensive and expensive. This snack bag station I spotted at a recent birthday party is a fun and super simple way to feed multitudes at without breaking the bank. Set out containers like these metal pails with various foods and provide bags so that guests can create their own snack […]
Our Broken Karlstad
So, our Karlstad broke and I nearly cried. Basically, there is a piece of particle board in the arm that holds the bolts that attach to the seating section of the couch – because you know, IKEA’s furniture are just large puzzles. Well that piece of crucial, load baring particle broke, just tore right in […]
February Thrift Store Finds
Here’s a fun little fact: this post marks one full year of thrift store shopping recaps. I know, it’s a pretty big deal, I bet it just drastically changed your day. On top of that, I found some pretty noteworthy things this month, like this chair I shared last week as well as another dining […]
Craftsy Class Giveaway
Craftsy is an online education center that offers a wide range of over 300 online classes ranging from cake decorating to cheese making, sewing to knitting, painting to photography, and much more. Their classes never expire and you can watch them anytime you’d like as many times as you’d like. Best of all, they are […]
A New Tweed Chair
I found this mid-century tweed chair at an estate sale a couple of weekends ago and couldn’t wait until my monthly Thrift Store Finds recap to share it. You see, I’ve been searching for a chair to replace this antique store find ever since Eliana mistook the wicker as a pull-toy. I had been looking […]
Peek-A-Boop
This girl is a hoot. A real ham. I see her daily making an effort to make people smile; walking up to her brother just to give him a pat, approaching her tantrum-ing sister to say “hey”, and playing peek-a-boo – she’s constantly playing peek-a-boo. This was one of those slow Saturday mornings; bacon and […]
Window Shopping for an Area Rug
I’ve never been a huge fan of our living room rug; it was inexpensive and that showed heavily after the three years of use in our home. So when my husband told me I could buy a new area rug for my birthday, my mind began racing with ideas. I knew I want a rug […]
January Thrift Store Finds
I am running pretty late this month for showing off my thrift store finds for January; don’t worry though, there were some pretty memorable finds in the first month of 2014. I should first start off with showing you these old cookie cutters I found in December – oops! I even used one to make […]
My Favorite Birthday Cakes
My birthday is just around the corner and although birthday’s seem to lose their spark as I get older, I still want to try to do something special – however small it is – on that day. And what’s a better excuse than a birthday to bake a cake!? Even though the girls are sick […]
Painting Terracotta Pots
I think it is safe to say that I am officially a hoarder of houseplants; let’s call it my houseplant collection – yeah, that sounds better. If I were to count how many houseplants I have, I would come to a total of 20. If I were to count the ones still living out of […]