As a new blogger I have spent almost the entire first year just learning how the blogging world works, and I’m happy to help other bloggers skip to the front of the line so they can focus on producing great content and spend less time figuring-it-out.Today all the amazing bloggers of the Confessions of a […]
Summer’s Frugal Finds
Hooray for Summer’s fantastic frugal finds and freebies! Speaking of which, tomorrow is the last day to enter the GIVEAWAY here on the blog! If you haven’t entered, now is the time! You don’t want to miss out on a free year subscription to ListPlanIt.com, I am LOVING my subscription! You can read about some […]
Bag Clips… Wrangled!
Oh. My. Goodness. AGAIN?? Today I had in mind to prepare this delicious spinach & mushroom torte on a bed of wild rice. I planned this a week ago and made sure to buy all the necessary ingredients. Then today I went to grab the bag of spinach out of the fridge and…well, the bag […]
Show & Tell
I don’t know about you, but for me nothing is more inspiring than seeing people’s creatively organized spaces. First I “ooooo” a bit, then I “aaaahhh”, then I start itching to see what fantastical spaces I can create. I get tired of just seeing and thinking “I can do that!”, and soon I’m scampering off […]
The Orderly Blogger
Jen, from IHeart Organizing has given bloggers some fantastic tips and important information to keep in mind when blogging. If you haven’t checked out the interview, well it is a must! Click here to get all caught up. This post is definitely for all the bloggers out there… but I would love it if all […]
Spring Into Cleaning
How excited were you to read Clean Mama’s interview last Monday?!! Don’t tell me I’m the only one out there that struggles to keep a clean and tidy house. Heh, and with three kids and a hubby working overtime to undo all my work, it’s an uphill battle! I had the pleasure of starting Clean […]
Organize Me Pretty
Andrea from Simple Organized Living really broke down the principles of having an organized life in Monday’s interview (read it here). I love the idea of having a wonderfully organized house and life, but when it comes to where the rubber meets the road…well, good intentions sometimes fall a little short. Sometimes we need to […]
Bold Design
Hearing from Carmelat Our Fifth House about how to be bold in our design (read the interview here), and being blown away by her incredible home, I’m more than ready to put into practice what I’ve learned! Plus, I’ve read and re-read Fieldstone Hill’s series on Overcoming Design Paralysis (read my post about it here), so I’m pretty excited about […]
Dare to DIY
I admit it, I am a bit DIY challenged when it comes to projects requiring the big power tools or actual skill. My poor little power tool set includes a cheap jigsaw, a hand-me-down drill, a rusty old sander, and a questionable router. In Monday’s exclusive, Sarah from The Ugly Duckling House shared with us […]
Plans for 2013
Happy New Year! I’ve always been one to anticipate the future with great hope and expectation. Well let me tell you, I have plenty of both those sentiments for my little blog that could! If you allow me, I plan to regale you with stories of house disasters turn home heaven, more creative diy how’s than you […]
Warranty & Manual Storage
I fear my office space. Seriously, I think my mountain of papers are out to get me. I’ve decided to take this task one small project at a time, or maybe I’ll just leave the boxes of mystery papers on my husbands doorstep with a note and run away (metaphorically speaking of course, as we […]
Spice Cabinet
I have the messiest spices in my cupboard. It’s a good thing the insides are a natural wood color, because my turmeric would have made them yellow either way. My spice & seasoning storage has annoyed me for the last time! I can’t find anything, I have spice redundancies, I tend to use the same […]
Pom Poms as Bedroom Decor
I’m a bit hesitant to let anything pretty hang just above a little girls bed… I can just see it now, one day I’ll be walking past just in time to catch all three girls jumping on the bed to see who can reach the “prettiest one”, and it will be bye-bye pretty. But ‘L’ […]
Bedroom Fit for a Princess
My daughter has a “fairy godmother” who we’ll call ‘L’ (that’s “Aunty L” to the girls). Well, she’s actually just godmother, but I’m pretty sure she made the special title of “fairy” after granting a pretty princess pink bedroom wish! One day ‘L’ calls me excitedly and requests to make over her god-daughters bedroom (technically we […]
Drawer Disaster Averted
So I have a little difficulty with keeping up with laundry, it’s all good. At least I put the folded clothes “neatly” in my drawers. Ehhhh…or something like that… Ok, so maybe my drawers could use a little TLC. I swear it didn’t start out this way. We used to be so happy together, we worked […]
