Easy, Affordable DIY Projects for the Home
Happy Friday, friends! I've been counting down the days to this weekend, mostly because I'm dying to spend some time working on our built-in seating in the dining room! We've just had a skeleton of a bench in our dining room all week long, and it makes family dinners very challenging. Hopefully, by the end of the weekend we'll have a fully-completed bench ready for trim and paint. Cross your fingers for us! This week was an exhausting one for me. I spent a ton of time tiling in the View Post
Spring is officially in full swing in our neck of the woods - I even got to wear shorts one day this week! I know many of you are still getting snow (and I'm so sorry for that!), but I've gotta say I'm really loving all of the warm spring weather we're getting. It's inspiring me to get outside, do some gardening (have you seen our garden? You can check it out in my Instagram story highlights), and we're even planning a big patio refresh to kick off the season! This week I picked up this faux View Post
Happy Friday! How was your week? Ours was cold. The entirety of Austin shut down on Tuesday because of a "winter storm" that ended up being really uneventful, so it was definitely a strange week for us! I got a few things around the house done - we finally put the kitchen cabinets back together (but we're waiting on hardware), and I'm finally about to get started building that entry table that I've been talking about since before Christmas! This weekend we've got Jackson's birthday party View Post
Happy Saturday! Are you as excited for the start of fall as I am? I've been longing for cooler weather and fall decor for weeks now and it's HERE! Picture me dancing around my living room, tossing pumpkins all over the place and wearing a scarf. I'm nothing if not enthusiastic. I gathered a fair amount of fall decor for our house last year, but I've been itching for some more lately. Of course, we aren't really buying anything right now since we're getting ready to sell our house, but I View Post
September! You guys! It's officially almost fall. I love summer and as a teacher, I always felt like it kind of had to be my favorite season, but now that I don't have any official loyalties I can definitely confirm that I'm a fall girl through and through. I love the crisp air, the pumpkins everywhere, and the excitement of knowing that the holiday season is coming. I'm really looking forward to seeing what it will be like to experience fall as a work-from-home mom - and Jack starts preschool View Post
Happy Saturday, friends! How was your week? I hope it was wonderful. I wanted to pop in today with a few fun summery decor pieces I've found lately. I don't have much in the way of decor for summer (remember, it was just last fall that I started doing any seasonal decorating at all), so I've been slowly trying to gather a few things to help our home feel a little more bright and cheerful. I'd love to hear your favorite suggestions for summer decorating, too - other than buying fresh flowers on View Post
I can't believe August is here. It's seriously blowing my mind how quickly this summer is flying by - if I was going back to teaching this year, I'd definitely be freaking out right about now. But, I'm not. Which also freaks me out a little but for totally different reasons. But no matter how freaked out I am, I've gotta say it's really nice to not have a total meltdown every time I see the back to school section at the grocery store. Because that's generally frowned upon when you're a grown View Post
Happy Saturday! Corey and I are at the final day of the Haven Conference today and I can't WAIT to come back next week and share all of the amazing inspiration and things we learned with you! Last year, I left feeling so invigorated and like I could take on the world, and we had some really fun partnerships come from it with brands that we're still working with now. Connecting with brands gives me a really fun and unique opportunity to bring new and exciting projects and ideas to you guys View Post
It's here! It's here! The Nordstrom Anniversary sale is upon us, and if you're anything like me you love to swoon over all of the fun picks and the jaw-dropping prices you can score during this sale. I don't usually buy much, though. I'm a window shopper. Wanna window shop with me?! Currently, the sale is only open to Nordstrom card-holders, but it opens up on the 21st to everyone so I figured I'd round up some fun picks today so if you don't feel like combing through the 15+ pages of View Post
Hey, friends! Happy Saturday! I've got a really fun reveal coming up for you next week - we've been quietly working on making some changes in Jackson's bathroom (which you've basically never seen because we've never done anything to it), and it's looking so, so good. I can't wait to share the reveal, and then we'll have all sorts of fun related projects to share afterwards! Now that we're finally wrapping up this bathroom, we're done with all of the big projects we've committed to this View Post