You’ve Got Mail, part 1
I mean I’ve got a new mailbox! (Click on photos to enlarge) I love all the cool covers that are available for mailboxes now. I have bought several and my sister gave me one. The last one I bought only had magnets on the bottom to hold it on, so it looked good at first, but that didn’t last long….
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End table to Night table…
I had just finished my modern farm table, and was talking to the best daughter in the world. What can I build next? She says, you can build me a bedside table! My mind went to that place where it goes, and I said that’s a good idea! I had just made a run to one of the best little…
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Funky Junk Finally
With the Miss Mustard Seed and Funky Junk Interiors “Copy Me Challenge” going on I just had to get involved. I had one of those Ah Ha moments yesterday, I’m sure you’ve heard of those. Anyway, I was over at Funky Junk’s Interiors Blog and it hit me! Loving junk myself, I knew that I had some things that I could…
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Miss Mustard Seed Inspired
Over the last few days I have watched the Miss Mustard Seed “Copy Me Challenge”! All the entries are so good!! I started looking around the house and came up a few items, to refresh my enty table. I love her style, and everything she does! So here’s my vignette inspired by MMS. I think inspiration comes from everywhere. I love…
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Cupcakes!
I have been wanting to try to make a sign, so I did! What do you think?? I tossed around different ideas on how to do it, and I settled on using a pencil, stencil and acrylic craft paint. Now what’s my word??? Thinking….Cupcakes, it is. Do I distress it, how do I highlight the letters, do I glaze it when…
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Deck Revisit
It’s been a great weekend! I’m glad that I was able to work outside, since I’m waking up to a rainy Monday. Seems like it’s been a long winter, but doesn’t it always? Complaining about the weather is what we do! Hopefully these pictures will inspire you, warm you, move you… The end of January, and these are still hanging…
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Birds are singing,
So excited, the temp was going to reach 60 and beyond! We’ve been looking at that messy back deck for months. I have been too chicken to even go out there, fear of freezing in my tracks. Today was the day, armed with my broom, Windex, bucket filled with warm soapy water…I cleaned. Just wondering, how do pillows get so gross…
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Spring on my mind,
Sometimes you just have to create your own spring. Even if it’s in January. I looked around the house and came up with a few things to brighten my dining table. I had recently removed, washed and put away some curtains that I was using in the kitchen. Most of my curtains, are pieces of fabric that I have hemmed on all four…
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Something green,
I’ve been working on a reFresh design for one of my friends. Her favorite color is green. I can’t wait to see what she thinks of these two! I am going on two things that she mentioned: she likes green and casual. I hope she likes!
Create a Slipcover for Your Ottoman
Create a Slipcover for Your Ottoman If you have an old ottoman, you can give it a new life with new attitude! By recovering it with a great fabric and adding pom pom ball fringe! One of my all time favorite fringes! I covered an old blue ottoman with black and white checked fabric, yes I do love black and white! Choose…
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