We arrived home last night after spending a few days with Zachary down in Sierra Vista. He’s getting married in just a month! and we knew this would be the last opportunity we’d have to spend time with him alone. Usually he’s a little distracted since his fiance is here at our home when he is. Remember those days when your time together was never enough? My boys and Russell went to work with him and me and the rest of the kids stayed behind at his little home on wheels. I was able to spruce things up a bit and do some organizing so that my new daughter-in-law wouldn’t be too overwhelmed by where to put all her belongings when they are married in…
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A Home on Wheels
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A Christmas Vignette using Natural Materials and White Elements
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at
8:13 am
I’m joining up with Rhoda at Southern Hospitality with a Christmas vignette. The other day you got a sneak peak when I showed you my candles covered with music. My inspiration for my Christmas vignette came from wanting to use natural materials and white elements. Here’s how I did it after playing around with the whole thing for a while. I started with laying a piece of folded burlap and then placed little white lights underneath the fabric. Then I just started adding things I had on hand. These little elephants are from a trip my husband took to Africa before we were married. The smallest white one is ivory and given to me when he returned. This was before we were going out…
My 2012 Winter Mantle
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 at
10:16 pm
This mantle was so much fun for me to put together. I had NO idea what I wanted to do when I started but after I finished my bookcase vignette (you’ll see it in a later post), I had an idea of doing the mantle in a vintage look. The finished mantle sort of reminds me of something you might see at Cracker Barrel. I’m loving it. I used a collection of old cooking pieces I had purchased years. The shutter on the left was salvaged several years ago from our wood pile to be burned. I sanded it a bit to make it more distressed and now it’s a permanent addition in our home. With the lights on and using the flash… …and obviously…
Spring Mantle – 2012
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at
9:47 pm
Today is the 1st day of Spring and here was the view out my window this morning… Being Arizona this is not a common sight in Spring! But since it is Arizona, the snow doesn’t stay around long. Over Sunday and Monday we got about 12″ of snow. So much fun… It seems I just put up my Winter Mantle but here it is Spring already. I like how God has the different seasons. Each one has its own kind of specialness. So here is my mantle welcoming Spring. It seems I always have old books on my mantle. The bird is sitting on a 1×2 piece of wood that I took and glued moss onto. The orchid was given to me on my birthday and is sitting in a small enameled pot that…
Decorating the Boys Bedroom – A Reading Corner
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at
7:08 am
Back in February I talked about doing some decorating in my boys’ bedroom. My boys’ bedroom I’ll tell you about in another post sometime but today I want to show you what I did with my From Pallet to Flag projects. This picture served as inspiration… although my area is nowhere near as big. Source: habituallychic.blogspot.com via Elisabeth on Pinterest I decided to make a reading corner. I had planned to put my flags in another area but it just wasn’t working for me, so I fit them here in the reading corner. (In case you missed my reasoning for a Canadian flag here, it’s because my boys are dual citizens.) and here is the little reading corner. I ordered the word excelsior from Pick Your…
More Peeks in My Laundry Room
Monday, February 27th, 2012 at
6:00 am
Okay, today I’m going to show you a little change we did in my sewing nook. Here’s the before picture. And here’s the after. Do you see the difference? Notice the cord from the light. Doesn’t it look sooo much better? What a difference! I also received a small little package in the mail this week from my sister with my finished curtain, lined and all. It’s really hard to get good pictures in that laundry room but the colors in the curtain are a bright pattern and contrast nicely with the black/taupe color of the laundry room. I changed out my button jars that sit on the window sill with some jars I picked up at an antique mall. The fabric had faded on…
The Boys’ Bedroom – Getting Some Inspiration
Friday, February 17th, 2012 at
10:52 am
Hey, hey folks! Things are happening in the laundry room today. Our tilesetter friend is coming out today to lay the tile in my sewing corner and there are a few other things that have been done in there. You’ll have to wait for pictures till after we get this tile in. I know it will be torturous but it won’t be long till I show you it all again. Today, I’ve got some cooking to do but I’m also hoping to do a little project for my boys’ bedroom. I think I’m starting to get some direction as to how I want to decorate it. It’s going to involve the word…. Excelsior Ernest Shackleton’s ad for voyage to the South Pole The American Flag The Canadian Flag (this has meaning…
A Finished Laundry Room… Almost
Friday, February 10th, 2012 at
12:59 pm
I am so happy with my laundry room and the recent changes I’ve made. First we finished my sewing corner. Finished may not be the right word since there are still some things I want to do in this corner. For starters I’d like to fix that light cord that’s hanging along the ceiling. But I’m loving having a dedicated sewing spot. Love! Now that I use this cubbyhole as my sewing corner, I wanted a place to put supplies, materials and other craft projects. I have a folding counter in my laundry room and at the end of it there is some open space where I have my trash can as well as my laundry detergent. This area was always meant to be a sewing counter but it was…
My Sewing Corner Reveal
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at
1:37 pm
I am really excited to tell you about a home project that we (ahem) my dad finished for us when both mom and dad were here around Christmas time. A few years ago we made a bedroom for our boys in the attic. (I’ve never posted pictures of it because I was trying to… I was really wanting to… I planned to show it after I had finished decorating it. No, it’s still not done. It’s been 2 years and I’ve done virtually nothing. Zilch. Nada But I’ve got plans people. Plans to finally at least start on it. Nevertheless, I’m in the laundry room right now. So let’s get back to that, shall we? When we added stairs in the boys’ room to the attic, I ended…
*A Unique Way to Display Christmas Cards
Monday, December 12th, 2011 at
8:36 pm
Hey everyone! I had a very good weekend. Hope you did, too! This past week I had a moment of in-spi-ra-tion! I love those moments… since they’re not too frequent. Anyways, have you ever seen where hotels/restaurants will cover their large pictures with wrapping paper so that they look like a gift? I saw some this week and it inspired me to take the gate I made 2 years ago for my mantle and wrap it. I’m placing my Christmas cards on it. So simple but a fun way to display the cards we receive. How do you display your Christmas cards?
Winter Mantle 2011
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at
11:13 am
Well here we are doing our Winter mantles for 2011, already! 2011 Winter Mantle I really like the touch of orangy/red, old books and white pillar candle. Here’s the gold picture frame I painted white and then sprayed chalkboard paint on the glass. The wreath was made from ripped pieces of fabric and knotted onto a wire frame. I’m still not sure what I really think about the wreath. What’s your opinion? Here’s what my mantle looked like last year. Now to be honest, those branches drove me c.r.a.z.y!! I really like how some people use branches in their decor but these were just too big and sprawling. I felt like I was having Halloween at Christmas time. I just needed to add a…
A Fall Mantle
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at
7:08 am
I stored all my Fall decorations in some Rubbermaid containers which made it nice and easy to know just where I had everything. Taking everything out of the box I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with my Fall Mantle but when I finished I was quite pleased with how it all turned out. I was at a rustic wedding recently (the wedding where Zachary played his cello at and then had the major car accident on his way home) anyways, at this wedding they mixed rustic and refined looks together. It gave me the idea to use this pretty little doiley on my rustic mantle. The doiley was handmade and given to me by some recent guests of ours. So nice! I love the orange…
Summer Mantle 2011
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 at
10:01 pm
Summer Mantle Fun I took down my Spring Mantle (which was never completed ) the other day and then heard I had a crowd headed to my place. (Memorial Day) Not wanting to leave it bare, I needed to get something on my mantle quick. What to do? A few ideas started spinning in my head and in just a short while I was able to complete it and have a lot of fun in the doing. Close-up… I cut some branches from our plum tree and placed them in a mason jar. I’m not sure how long they’ll last but there’s plenty more I can cut. The tree desperately needs pruning anyways. A little further away… A friend gave me these pioneer pictures after a pioneer homeschool day…
Working on My Winter Mantle (Again!)
Friday, January 21st, 2011 at
8:21 am
After not changing my mantle decor for so many years (and me a lover of change! Shocking!), I have been playing around with my mantle since Christmas. Would you like to see the transitions its made in just two months time? You do? Good, because I’m ready to do a little show-n-tell. My first attempt at a Christmas/Winter mantle started like this. I built the gate, which I talked about here. I am having trouble with the formatting here so I’m just going to add a bunch of extra spaces here to get it to align properly. Just a little more and there, it’s done. I thought it looked a little bare so I called my big sis, who contacted her personal interior decorator, who just happens…
Sprucing up the Master Bedroom
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at
8:16 am
We’ve now lived 15 years,as of December, in a home we designed and built ourselves. (Or rather my hubby built it. I just kept him well fed.) The 15 years has went by so quickly. So quickly that there are still projects unfinished after all this time! I’m sure you know how it is. You just get used to how things look and only get to things when they really need done. Like my bedroom… We left it white all those years ago because I wanted to paint it but I didn’t know what color. I’m still undecided. I also wanted to make a nice little seating area in there but that never happened. You getting the idea? Things just never happened in there. This cute little secretary desk was placed…
Working on a Winter Mantle
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 at
8:38 am
Over the weekend I started working on decorating my mantle for winter. Until a few months ago I had not changed my mantle decor for years. Yep, you read that right. Years. But I liked how it looked and wasn’t thinking about changing it seasonally. So decorating my mantle for the winter season is new territory to me. I got the idea for this gate from Funky Junk Interiors. Here is her gate here. We had this old fencing we picked up several years ago for a homeschool co-op day we had. I wanted to save it but it has slowly been being used for firewood. Fortunately, we still had this piece. After taking apart the boards I somewhat followed Funky Junk Interiors tutorial and…
Fall Decorations for Thrifties
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at
2:32 pm
When is the best time to buy seasonal decorations? When the season is almost over if you’re trying to be thrifty. Since I’m trying to spend less these days that’s what I did this season. And since I know everyone loves to see how others are decorating, I decided to share. I really like how some people are able to decorate with the seasons or the various holidays but had never really tried it until last year. My first step in that direction was when I bought this wreath at Hobby Lobby last year and hung it on my front door. This year I decided to put it in my living room above the fireplace. Then I found this pillow at Hobby Lobby for…
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