I'm just about ready to sign off for the rest of the YEAR - always weird to say - but I wanted to share one last DIY before I wish you all a happy end to this awful year. It has been forever (yes, literally, I do mean it feels like forever) since I shared a cake decorating idea, and this one seemed perfect for the season...a knit beanie cake! Does everyone call them beanies? Some might ju[...]
The following post is sponsored by RubberStamps.com This month is already flying by, and I had yet to make our stockings this year! As such an avid DIYer, I've made us new Christmas stockings almost every year. This year, I partnered with RubberStamps.com to make these easy stamped stockings personalized with tags for the holidays! Who says stamps are only for paper?! Using fabric pai[...]
The following post is sponsored by Cricut When I was a kid (maybe 12 or 13), my mom got one of the first Cricut machines. I was an avid scrapbooker then and all through my teens, and mom's Cricut was the coolest thing since sliced bread! We collected TONS of cartridges my mom still uses often. Years after I had moved out on my own and already started blogging, Andrew bought me the orig[...]
'Tis the season for wrapping! As a follow up to my last post on holiday gift wrapping ideas with Cricut Infusible Ink, I thought I'd share a great low-cost way to make unique DIY gift packaging...lunch bags. Standard brown lunch sacks are the perfect size for wrapping an assortment of gifts, and some scrap paper can take them to blah to gingerbread houses! These gingerbread house paper gi[...]
The following post is sponsored by Cricut I'm sure I've shared before how much I LOVE wrapping gifts! I spend way too much time every year meticulously wrapping our gifts, and this seemed like a good opportunity to make my own gift packaging too! No matter what you're gifting, you can customize the wrapping or gift packaging with fabric bags and Cricut Joy Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets[...]
I teased a while back about the new color of our VERY 80s front door...it's YELLOW! Our front door was completely beat up when we first moved in, and it had an ugly privacy screen that was hard to open and close. We wanted to replace the lock immediately (something you should always do when you first move in), so it made refinishing and modernizing our front door a priority. To modernize[...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, our patio is currently our favorite "room" in the house because it feels the most finished so far. When we first moved in, we could only justify prioritizing furniture purchases for items we didn't have but felt we needed (rather than replacing old items moved over from our apartment). Before we even moved in, our outdoor patio furniture was purchased an[...]
The following post is sponsored by ASTROBRIGHTS® Can you believe it's already November?! I'm in a full-blown fall mode now, covering every inch of my house in pumpkins and prepping for my FIRST year hosting Thanksgiving! Yes, a lot has changed. To prepare, I started playing around with paper Thanksgiving decor ideas with ASTROBRIGHTS and came up with this retro-inspired 3D paper mural[...]
The following post is sponsored by Wayfair As I shared in my last post, we've been living in our new home for one whole month now! Time has flown by, and we continue to work on project after project to make the space feel like US. One of the first projects I was excited to tackle was modernizing our fireplace, which was straight outta the 80s. How, you ask?! The affordable way: paint.[...]
Oh boy, I don't know where the time has gone...but we've been in Montez Manor for a whole month already! Looking back on month one, I'm SO proud of what we've accomplished. Hopefully throughout November I can begin sharing more about the spaces in our home, but above is a peek at our outdoor dining space! We still have more to do outside before I share a full reveal, but it's currently ou[...]