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 […]

I was outside playing with my kids the other day, when a couple of girls walked past us, on their way home from school. They looked about 14 or 15, and the bookbags slung over their backs seemed bigger than they were. One of the girls was clearly upset about something, exclaiming “It’s NOT FAIR!,” […]