Real Home, Real Family, Real Life
From the monthly archives:
Domestic Ease Thanks for all your sweet compliments on the maps I used to fill the frames in my family room. I loved reading all your comments and emails yesterday about the creative projects that you’ve done with maps. The Country Cottage Chick So let’s see them! I thought it would be fun to see [...]
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I still haven’t found the perfect solution for the empty frames on my family room wall. But I got tired of waiting for perfect (and of explaining why I have empty frames on my wall). So I turned to one of my go-to frame fillers. Maps. They’re beautiful and easy to find. I found an [...]
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Hello, sweet friends! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Ours was spent hiding indoors from Old Man Winter who made a very unwelcome return. Doesn’t he know it’s spring? I’m ready for some sunshine, people! But lucky for me, I had some spring inside the house because, last week, I started growing some [...]
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Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16 photo credit: aussiegal
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Shut the front door. You MUST check out this chicken wire wall at Under the Sycamore. I’m in chicken wire love. Loving these Pottery Barn inspired Richard Taylor Leaf Planters from Vintage Skye. So pretty. Wouldn’t they make a great Mother’s Day gift with a beautiful plant inside? I squealed when I saw this Bucket [...]
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Once upon a time, there was a sad little laundry room that just didn’t work. It did the laundry alright, but it just didn’t function well. There wasn’t proper storage. There wasn’t a sink for soaking stained clothes and there wasn’t a place to fold the clothes. But that’s all a-changin’ since I’ve already made [...]
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Because I think their Anna Moss Basket looks a wee bit like my Moss Easter Basket from last year. Check out this post for easy instructions for your own DIY Moss Basket.
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The Painted House It all started with these two pictures from The Painted House. That gigantic basket made my heart go pitter-patter. I had to have one. But I didn’t know what it was. So I turned to Uncle Google and spent hours searching things like “giant flat basket” and “the most glorious basket I’ve [...]
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A couple of months ago, an email popped up in my inbox that made me squeal. Loudly. My kids thought I’d lost it. I’ve calmed down a bit and I’m now a part of the Electrolux Test Drive Program. The amazing folks at HomeBuzz (a part of the FoodBuzz Community) gave me the invitation and [...]
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I love getting my Pottery Barn catalog in the mail. I always find inspiration. If only someone would send me the “Lots of Spare Time” catalog. But I nearly always see something that I want to try and hack. Sometimes the best things to hack out of the Pottery Barn catalog (or any catalog for [...]
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I heart Kate from Centsational Girl. Not only is she an incredible designer and DIYer, but she has a heart as big as 10 cans of spray paint. How she manages to keep such a big heart inside such a tiny body is beyond me. I’ve known for a while that she’s had a deep [...]
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Do you want to know how to make one of these fluffy, spring butterfly wreaths? It’s ridiculously simple and I feel kind of silly even telling you. Here’s all you need: 1. A foam wreath form: I used a 12″ green form, but any size will work. I went with the green form in case [...]
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Scary, possessed talking toy Have you ever had one of your kid’s toys start making noise in the middle of the night? That sweet (if somewhat annoying) voice at 2am sounds completely possessed. Scared the ever-lovin’ boogers out of me. I nearly peed my pants as I crept down the stairs to confront the evil [...]
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Spring is sure to follow. ~Guinean Proverb I have plans that daffodils will someday fill a woody patch of ground outside my kitchen window. I would love to be able to cut my own bunches. Until then, the $2.99 bunch from the grocery store does quite nicely. I tied them all together with a little [...]
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There may still be snow on the ground at Casa Kimba, but I’ve been dreaming of spring for a month. I figured it was time to replace the pine cone wreath that’s been hanging in my kitchen with something a little a little more spring-y. It was super simple (and inexpensive) to make. The base [...]
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I’ve been secretly considering a home office makeover for my hubby. This man cave makeover from Our Fifth House is making me drool! Maybe you’ve already seen this fabulous paneled headboard at Evolution of Style? BUT, have you seen the step-by-step tutorial? You can do that. Loving this Anthropologie-inspired Ruffled Lampshade at Just a Girl. [...]
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I get lots of emails from people asking how my husband feels about my home decorating ways. They usually come after I make reference to my rather extensive stash of stuff in the basement. Even though I seriously reduced the size of my stash at my garage sale last summer, I still have quite a [...]
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I was wandering through the indoor garden section of Lowes the other day and stumbled upon this beautiful container of succulents. For around $12, I decided he was a fun treat to bring home and try out on my kitchen window sill. This is no small deal because I don’t have the best luck with [...]
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