Projects

  Hey everyone!  I’m still knee-deep in my mission to makeover my boys’ bedrooms, and I am always finding inspiring ideas throughout the blogosphere as well as Pinterest.  I thought it would be fun to put together a roundup of 15 inspiring bedroom ideas for boys that I love!  Ideas like these always keep my […]

  Hey everyone!  I’m back from the Haven conference in Atlanta and working on trying to make up on sleep!  I can’t even begin to explain how fun and amazing the conference was.  I’m planning to share a recap of the whole thing later this week.   My favorite part of the entire trip was […]

    Hi everyone!  I’m having such a great time right now at the Haven Conference in Atlanta.  I am finally getting to meet my blogging friends in person and getting to meet my blogging heroes as well.  It’s an unbelievable experience! Today, I’m beyond excited to tell you all that I am guest posting over […]

I’m excited to share today 101+ Birthday Gift Ideas for your Friends, including my DIY State Pride Cheeseboard.  I am joining forces with Kristen Duke in her Birthday Celebration Week along with over 100 talented bloggers sharing lots of inexpensive ideas and free printables! All week long, Kristen is sharing birthday tips and giveaways so […]

  Hi there, everyone!  Happy 4th of July!  Do you have any fun plans today?  This year, we’ve decided to just take it easy and just hang out at home.  It will give me a little time to finish up some projects as well as get ready for Haven Conference next week.  I’ve got a […]

Do you love painting projects?  Up until lately, I had a love/hate relationship with paint.  I loved the look of a beautiful piece of painted furniture, but I seriously hated how tedious it was.  That is until this amazing tool came into my life.    When this gorgeous box showed up on my front door, […]

I’m making some progress in my oldest son’s room.  Last week I shared this DIY #1 Shelf that I made for his room.  This week, I’m sharing this PB Teen-Inspired Ladder Shelf.  I’ve been planning to make this for a while now and I am so glad that I finally got a chance to get it done! […]

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Glidden® paint through their partnership with POPSUGAR Select. While I was compensated to write a post about Glidden paint, all opinions are my own.    Hi everyone!  Today I’m sharing my latest project for my oldest son’s bedroom.  It’s been a while since I have worked on any projects for […]

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I know it’s been a little quiet here lately, and I apologize for that.  We just got home from our summer vacation a few days ago and I’ve been working away on projects that I can’t wait to share with you!   Today I’m over at My Crafty Spot sharing the tutorial […]

  I have joined up with more than 30 AMAZING bloggers to tackle the challenge of creating a patriotic project or recipe without using the traditional red, white and blue color scheme! How fun is that?! For the next four weeks, all 30+ projects will be shared on some of the most awesome blogs around. I can’t […]

Hey everyone!  Today I wanted to share my latest patriotic project with you.  Like pretty much everyone, I love mason jars and will jump at any excuse to use them in a project.  I also love chalky finish paint, so I combined my two loves to make this set of patriotic lanterns.     UPDATE: […]

Happy Friday!  I can’t believe May is coming to an end already!  I’m so excited for the rest of this summer though.  Today I’m going to kick off a series of patriotic posts to help you get ready for the 4th of July.  I’m definitely a bit behind on sharing my DIY patriotic decor, but […]

Happy Memorial Day, everyone!  I hope you are all having a fun and safe long weekend.  Today is a day to remember those who have served and have paid the ultimate sacrifice.  As the song goes, “all gave some, some gave all.”  I am definitely thankful for those who have fought for our freedom and […]

 I’ve had this bedside lamp from Ikea for almost 10 years now.  I’ve always liked it, but it needed a little something to dress it up a bit.  When the original pleated paper lampshade fell apart about two years ago, I bought some plain cloth lampshades from Target (my husband has the same lamp).  I […]

This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Rubbermaid, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #FastTrack http://my-disclosur.es/RgFrEH  Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a great weekend!  It was another busy one for us between birthday parties, soccer games, projects in the garage, etc.  I […]

Hi folks!  Today, I’m over at A Prudent Life sharing this bright and colorful tutorial for Painted Drop Cloth placemats.  I was very honored to be asked to guest post for my blogging BFF, Melissa.  She’s got such a beautiful blog and she’s so incredibly creative!  You can find my tutorial for these placemats here. While you’re there, […]

Happy Mother’s Day!  I hope all of you moms out there are enjoying your day!  This year my husband spoiled me with not one, but two gifts!  He bought me the dining set I’d been wanting for our front courtyard, but then we found a deal for a larger dining set for the backyard and […]

Happy Friday!  What a crazy week it’s been!  I’ve been working on a bunch of projects, plus trying to get gifts together for teacher appreciation and Mother’s Day, so this week has flown by for me.  Today I’m over at My Crafty Spot sharing my tutorial for this Ballard-Inspired Leather Studded Monogram.  I’ve been wanting to work […]

Hi guys!  I’m over at the Expressions Vinyl Blog today sharing this fun framed vinyl sign.  I’ve been working on freshening up the house with some fun new decor and I have been wanting to make a little sign like this for quite some time.  I can’t count how many times I’ve pinned things like this on Pinterest. […]

Hey everyone!  Today I’m going to share with you how I gave a new life to a rusty, forgotten old chair.  On Monday I shared 10 Inspiring Outdoor Ideas with you all.  One of those ideas was How to Paint Plastic Outdoor Chairs from Tiny Sidekick.  It inspired me to give some sprucing up to an old chair that […]

With warm weather upon us (or always in my case), it’s the time of year when everyone gets motivated to do some outdoor projects.  My husband and I are no different.  After three years of living in our house, we are finally landscaping!  I know some of you may wonder what took so long, but […]

Hey everyone!  I’m back again today with another fun knockoff project!  I was inspired to make this DIY seashell wreath after seeing this Faux Shell Wreath during one of my many evenings of drooling over all of the gorgeous items on Pottery Barn’s website. I loved the beachy feel of this wreath.  Unfortunately, being in Arizona, we […]

We have been enjoying some beautiful spring weather here in Arizona this past week.  It’s been a great inspiration to work on some more spring projects around the house.  My latest project is this chalky finish spring centerpiece.  I have loved the look of the painted and distressed mason jars and I knew I wanted […]

Hey everyone!  Today I’m going to share with you my latest tutorial.  First, let me start by saying that I am so fortunate to be able to have the opportunity to work with Royal Design Studio Stencils and share my thoughts on their beautiful and fun stencils! My oldest son had been needing a new toy box […]

Raise your hand if you love Anthropologie!  They have got such fun stuff for home decor as well as gorgeous clothes!  Sadly, our single-income budget doesn’t exactly have enough in it for me to go crazy in their store.  Back in January, I was scoping out their website and fell in love with their ribbon […]

Today I’m very excited to be a guest contributor over at Expressions Vinyl Blog.  I have been using their vinyl for a few years now and I absolutely love it!  Their color selection is amazing and the quality of the vinyl is the best I’ve used!  You can imagine my excitement to be able to write a […]

{Disclaimer:  I am a member of the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Program.  I received compensation and/or products for this post.  All opinions and ideas for these products; however, are my own.} Hi everyone!  Today I’m sharing part 2 of my son’s Star Wars bedroom transformation.  In case you missed it, on Monday I shared his Star Wars […]

{Disclaimer:  I am a member of the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Program.  I received compensation and/or products for this post.  All opinions and ideas for these products; however, are my own.}  I’m going to have a bit of a nerd moment and admit that I love Star Wars!  I am a bigger fan of episodes IV […]

 I am beyond excited to share our new media console with you today.  I have been wanting to build this for over a year and a half.  The second I saw the Benchwright TV Stand in the Pottery Barn catalog, I fell in love with it.  The best part is that Ana White already had plans for it on her […]

Yesterday I shared with you my new leather tote and this awesome giveaway!  Now I’m going to show you how I made the tote and change purse pictured above.  While I am giving you a tutorial for how I made this bag, I still highly recommend Don Morin’s Making Leather Bags class.  He shares some very valuable information […]

My Husband and I are right smack in the middle of landscaping our front yard (finally!).  We’ve lived in our house for just over three years and spent a ton of time and money remodeling the inside of the house.  Once that was all done, we thought we could start on the outside of the […]

UPDATE!  I have received so many requests about selling these towels and I am happy to announce that I have just opened up an Etsy shop and these are now for sale!  You can see them in my Etsy shop HERE.  I’ll be adding more products soon, but I know how many of you have been […]

Hey everyone!  Today I’m going to share with you a project that is very high on my husband’s list of favorites.  We have a huge bay window in our master bedroom and, during the summer especially, a lot of light comes past our blinds.  For me, it’s not really an issue.  I can sleep any […]

{Disclaimer:  I am a member of the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Program.  I received compensation and/or products for this post.  All opinions and ideas for these products; however, are my own.} Chalky finish paint is becoming very popular lately.  I see it popping up all over social media and blogs with people reviving furniture with these […]

Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk looking at a bag of wine corks a friend had given to me to add to my own collection as well as a ball of bakers twine I had kept from a box of cannolis from a local Italian bakery.  Then it hit me!  Why not use the […]

  With the new year starting, it seems that everyone (including myself) is looking for ways to get organized. This laundry pedestal is a great start for your laundry room. My husband and I built this a year and a half ago for our new washer and dryer.  There are a lot of oddities with […]

I’m so excited to show you my new pegboard for my craft room.  I’ve wanted one for quite some time, and thanks to some wonderful Home Depot gift cards from Christmas, I finally decided that now was the perfect time to do it.  I suffer from the problem of “out of sight, out of mind” […]

  I love pulling out Christmas ornaments every year and having a memory for each one.  Especially watching the evolution of the ornaments from my husband’s and my first Christmas as a married couple, to having a personalized ornament for our family of three to now our family of four.   DIY ornaments are no […]

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s pretty chilly here in AZ right now, which is totally putting me in the Christmas spirit!  Last year, I was wearing shorts and flip flops when we were putting lights on the house.  Yesterday I was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt and freezing!   Today, I’m sharing my Christmas Centerpiece with […]

Hi everyone.  I’m really excited to share this DIY Monogram Wreath with you today.  This is the first time I’ve ever made a wreath.  As much as I love to DIY everything, I usually purchase fresh wreaths every year.  Mostly because I love the fresh pine smell when I go in and out the front […]

Earlier this week I shared how I built this kitchen island for my mom.  As promised, today I’m going to show you how I built the butcher block table top for it.  I went back and forth, fretting over whether to build a butcher block table top or to buy one.  When I say buy one, I […]

Hey everyone, I’m so excited to finally share with you the project I’ve been working on for the past month.  My mom has wanted an island in her kitchen for pretty much forever.  She finally decided that it was time to have one and she asked me to build it for her.  We went through […]

Hi everyone.  As I said earlier this week, I’m sharing how I built the Parson chairs for our DIY Farmhouse Table.  I really wanted to still try to save money on the chairs as well, but I couldn’t find any that either matched our table, had the fabric we liked, or that weren’t an arm and […]

Hi Everyone.  I’m still on a mission to stop neglecting fall and creating some fun and easy decorations.  I whipped up this easy and inexpensive Thanksgiving burlap canvas art last night in no time flat.  Quick and easy projects are definitely my favorite.  Especially when they are also cheap! I started with a 12×12 stretched […]

  Hey there!  I am so happy to share this farmhouse table build with you.  With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, this table is the perfect size to fit your whole family.  My husband and I built this together earlier this year and we absolutely love it.  We don’t have a formal dining room, so this baby […]

  Happy Halloween!  I absolutely love fall.  I wouldn’t actually say that we have much of a fall season, but I love it just the same.  While some people are starting to bundle up, we are finally getting temps down in the 80s.  The kids take this as their cue to spend every available second […]

  My husband and I have wanted to make a bottle cap table for a couple of years now.  We started saving beer bottle caps and recruited our friends to save for us as well.  We weren’t sure what we would build or when, but we kept saving anyway.  When the dinette table in our […]

This console table was the first build my husband and I did together. I had been begging for a console table forever and he (rightfully so) didn’t want to spend $1,000 on a table. I finally convinced him that we could just build one and save a TON of money and have some fun working […]

I have a huge obsession with mason jars. They’re not just for canning anymore. There are so many things that you can do with them. I use several of them in my craft room for storage and I decided that once I finished my craft cart, I would make a cute caddy to hold them. […]

Today I’m going to share this fun and easy Halloween decoration.  It literally took me about an hour’s worth of work to make it.  With the exception of the spider, I already had all of the supplies on hand for this project, so it was super cheap for me to make it. You’ll need a […]

Hi everyone!  Today I’m going to show you how I did the glazing on my craft cart.  I have to admit that I was extremely nervous about glazing it.  This was my first time glazing and I didn’t want the hours I’d spent painting my craft cart to be ruined.  It turns out that glazing […]

I’m so excited to share my very first project post with you today.  I’ve been searching for the perfect table to build for my craft room for several months.  When I saw this Pottery Barn inspired kitchen island built by the very talented Whitney over at Shanty 2 Chic, it quickly made my shortlist of ideas.  When Ana […]