Every day I must say to myself how much I love my new open shelves. For those of you who have followed my blog for a while, you know about my budget kitchen makeover, and how I removed the cabinet doors off my existing 1960s cabinets. Some people thought I was crazy to expose the […]

Here’s another quick DIY wedding gift idea for y’all! Are you ready? Here goes… Grab a plate. Spray paint it. Stencil the couple’s name and wedding year around the rim. Fill in with paint. Add their initial in the middle in another color paint. Done. I actually made this as a birthday gift for my […]

The weekend started out as awesome as they get. Paul and I took the kids to the pool when he got home from work, and we stayed until closing. The kids were having a BLAST. We came home, had ice cream sundaes,  and let the kids go outside and catch lightning bugs (which you FB […]

My mom was filling all her pots with flowers and plants, as she does every year, when she took a look at one of her old plastic pots. She decided it either needed to be trashed, or handed over to Yours Truly for some much needed love. She asked if I had any idea how […]

Our son has been an early riser from the minute he was born. He even woke me at 5:30am with contractions and made his debut before 8. Mornings are his thang. Doesn’t matter if he goes to bed at 7 or 10 at night, he will rise with the sun (which is odd, considering he […]

I get asked about baby gift ideas a lot. I totally understand why – I mean, when a baby is born, especially one born to a close friend or family member, you want to do something a little extra special. A good friend of mine had a baby recently, and I was in the same […]

Whew! Been a while since I’ve done a Girls Night post, right?! We had a heckuva time trying to find a date these past couple months – between our kids’ and husbands’ sports schedules, husbands’ business trips, illnesses, man, it’s been a crazy couple of months! We decided since it was already June, that we […]

I realized it’s been a while since I’ve done a kitchen post. It’s not completely stick-a-fork-in-it-done, but now that it’s at an acceptable stage (meaning it all looks good enough and is 100% functioning), I started moving onto other rooms and projects, leaving those final touches behind. We all know I have problems when it […]

What’s with me and cookie sheets?! Just like the one I used for the DIY sisal tray, this cookie sheet was beyond done. And by done, I mean, should never be used again…unless of course, you have a can of spray paint handy, and if that’s the case, by all means, make yourself a tray! […]

Ever since my DIY Sisal Cookie Sheet-turned-Tray, I’ve been obsessed with this sisal stuff. I have it on hand, ready to spring to action should I find something ugly that I’d like to breathe new life into. I did just that today. I had a plain-jane glass vase – the kind you get flowers delivered […]