Helllllo 2021! Like all of you, I'm hoping this year will be a million time better than the last. That's setting the bar pretty low...and we're NOT off to a good start. Now that we've made it through the holidays, I'm hoping to get back to focusing on the house. I've been purchasing decor pieces here and there to keep things affordable, and yes, there are DIYs in the works. You can follow[...]
Oh, hi! I can finally share that I am a MARRIED LADY! That's right - on Dec 31, 2020, Andrew and I had a last-minute micro backyard wedding to close out the awful year on a high note. After postponing (more like cancelling) our wedding twice in 2020, we agreed to get married before the year ended. We've been together for almost eight years, and after my grandma recently passed away, I ask[...]
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[...]