Maybe I’m not one of the cool kids, but we’re not much of entertainers at our house for Valentine’s. And Leslie Knopp has me epically beat on throwing Galentine’s Day parties. (You know that reference, right?) Instead, we’re the low-key V-Day entertainers, the let’s-just-wear-pajamas-all-day-drinking-coffee kind of people. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. So…
It’s about this time every year when I plan to do it all. To have all of our family’s Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving, to bake cookies for our town’s firefighters and police officers, to adopt as many Angel Tree kids as possible, to have our home completely scrubbed clean and organized before company arrives, to…
My grandmother is the notorious “saver” in our family. I wouldn’t call it “hoarding” because there’s an art to it. And I’m pretty sure she passed down her saving tendencies to me over the years. Every dish, every candle holder, every scrap of fabric that could possibly serve a purpose one day would get tucked…
Get ready for a heaping pile of exclamation points. It’s home tour day!!!!!!!!! And not just any home tour but the let’s-put-pumpkin-spice-in-all-the-things home tour. Woot! #DontHateMeBecauseImBasic This year, I’m joining one of my best blog friends, Rachel from Maison de Pax, again in her Fall Into Home 2016 Tour along with 12 incredibly talented bloggers….
My little brother and I could not be more opposite. On Halloween every year growing up, I’d always want to find an excuse to dress up pretty and girly, usually with some kind of tiara involved. My brother… he always wanted to chase kids with toy chainsaws while wearing zombie makeup. To this day, I…
Fess up. Have you had a pumpkin spice flavored something yet in the past week? Or gotten just a teensy bit excited at the thought of crunching leaves under your fall boots that you’ve been dying to pull out of your closet? If you’re still in summer mode, this post is going to completely throw off…
If you ever visit our house for a random summer cookout or Friday night hangout or whatever kind of shindig we usually have happening around here, you might think we are super duper hyper organized. Oh contraire, friend. We might ask you to hang your jackets on the hallway hooks because you do not want…
Can I just give away free stuff to y’all in every post I write from now on? Every time I share one of my DIY/crafting/decor-dreaming/oopsie-flub-ups on this blog, I do a little happy dance because I’m still amazed that people other than my mom read about our adventures. You guys stopping in and sharing your thoughts…
I had fully intended on sharing a great before and after with y’all today, but sometimes life happens. It looks like I’ve got a case of the sickies to start off the week. So I’ll be curled up in bed watching Friends reruns and trying every trick in the book to prevent Olivia from using…
Tips for organizing a pantry using dollar store containers, recycled boxes, and repurposed baskets and bins, plus a free pantry inventory checklist to make grocery shopping easier. Cheers to accomplishing New Year’s resolutions in the first week of January! Huzzah! We won’t harp on the fact that the rest of my house is an utter…
A before and after home tour of our brick colonial house 5 years after moving in with recaps of countless DIY home improvement projects and decorating tutorials. It’s so hard to believe that 5 years have already passed since we moved into this house! And yet it feels like so much longer than that at…
This post is sponsored by ProCore Floors. A corner breakfast nook and kitchen refresh reveal using herringbone LVP flooring to transform the space on a budget. I woke up today feeling like it’s Christmas! The reveal of our corner breakfast nook and kitchen before and after is finally here! Considering this was a no demo…
How we packed our playroom with tons of toy storage and seating flexibility, plus 30 of the most stylish Amazon storage furniture pieces for all over the house. Our playroom has been holding out on a little secret, and ever since its quickie update last fall, I don’t think I’ve ever actually shown all of…
30 ways for how to make your house look expensive and intentional without costing you the high end designer bucks. I blame TikTok for this post. (By the way, I feel really old over there, but I digress.) The other night, the house was feeling all cozy and cute with our lamps turned on and…
13 simple Christmas bedroom decor ideas to add to primary bedrooms, guest bedrooms, and kids rooms for cozy winter style. I think this might be the first time in four years I’ve busted out any Christmas bedroom decor. To be fair, after that first year of decorating our bedroom for Christmas after moving in, we…
A quick and simple Thanksgiving table decor setup that’s easy to recreate in 10 minutes using stems cut from the backyard, produce, and basic dinnerware. I’m over here setting up Thanksgiving table decor while the rest of the world has moved on to Christmas apparently, but I couldn’t resist having one more cozy fall moment….
The most realistic Christmas garland, trees, wreaths, and stems and vintage Christmas decor staples for a timeless, nostalgic holiday home. Today marks the day when Robert and I pull ALL of our vintage Christmas decor from the attic, crank up the Bing Crosby, and get to work! Bloggers are weirdly earlier than normal for holiday…
A brutally honest, unbiased review of the York Pottery Barn Sofa and what you should know before you purchase one. We’ve been living with our two Pottery Barn sofas for nearly 2 MONTHS, so I’m finally showing and sharing all of the nitty gritty details about them! I avoided showing these sofas since they arrived…
30 of the best things to see and do with kids of all ages in Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, North Carolina. It’s been nearly two months since our last trip to Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, and now that the kids are back in school and I can reflect on our summer, I thought…
A round-up of 30 of the most common items to buy while thrift shopping that can be transformed into home decor using a few simple changes. After a decade of scouring thrift stores for home decor and furniture, I’ve noticed a trend in the typical common staples, the other-man’s-junk-taken-for-granted kind. In the beginning of my…
