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Celebrate the Season with Pillows!

Hey everyone- I am in a bit of a pillow-palooza at my house! My sister recently sold me on the classic down pillow. She was a northwest girl for a few years and she embraced her inner sweater and down vest self! Seriously! They put feathers in everything up there! So she got me to [Read more…]

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Fall Decor Ideas for Small Spaces

With fall in the air I wanted to share a few fall décor ideas for  small  spaces. Little ideas can make a big impact in a small room,  loft, apartment, dorm room, assisted living or mother-in-law suite – it doesn’t take much to add seasonal décor! These birch branches are from my Christmas tree last year! I bundled a few branches [Read more…]

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Updated Basement Accessories for Under $100.00

updated basement accessories I am so excited to share my  updated basement accessories.   Here is the basement space this winter.  This space  doesn’t know if it wants to be a contemporary football viewing room  or a mountain rental décor space. Seriously, it is the room for misfit furniture and  accessories. Check out the painting over the fireplace; it  is a child’s career ending art [Read more…]

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Living Room Limbo.. need comments

My {first} husband and I almost always agree on design ideas for the house!   We have similar tastes and we are both highly motivated by budget friendly ideas. This is our living room and it shares a wall that leads into our family room.  We both agree that we don’t want a traditional living room.   [Read more…]

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A Return to the classic kitchen table

Hi everyone~ How many of you jumped on the high top kitchen table trend?  I wouldn’t say my {first} husband and I are always at the forefront of a trend, but we were on the high top table’s 15 minutes of fame a couple years ago.  While participating in our neighborhood’s annual garage sale I [Read more…]

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Patriotic Pillow Decor

HI there- I admit I don’t use a lot of red, white and blue in my house for the 4th of July. I think because the heat just makes me cranky and it doesn’t have the wind up like say Halloween where you can get a good 4 weeks out of the ghosts and pumpkins!  [Read more…]

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Newspaper Covered Clock

I thought something horrible had happened;  like the cable went out. This was my first thought when my {first} husband, looking completely exasperated,  rushing  into our bedroom the other night, having just returned from Utah for a  tennis tournament.   This is a guy who never gets rattled, but clearly something was unsettling him.  It [Read more…]

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Cork Décor Ideas

Hi there- I am a cork dork these days! I found a package of cork circles at Ikea a few months ago. I had no idea what I was going to do with the cork, but this  has never stopped me from making a purchase! I was on a mission to find a few cork décor ideas.  [Read more…]

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Décor in Minutes

décor in minutes The seasons fly by so fast and if I didn’t love spending time decorating for the seasons and holidays (there is a difference) I would call it a huge sane drain!  But, I love the seasons and holidays and LOVE to decorate.  My friends give me a hard time when I am [Read more…]

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a bed and a bench

Where do you weigh in on this pressing topic?  I recently added a bench to the end of our bed and we like it and more importantly, Chloe our Bernese Mountain puppy  loves to use a bench to nail her after flight vault and landing onto our bed. Here’s the end of our bed before the [Read more…]

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Fun & Easy Bathroom Ideas for Kids

If you have  kids  boys you hate bathrooms!  It doesn’t matter if they are two or forty two!  Some mornings I need disposable gloves and a hazmat suit.  And,  the moment you reach to raise the toilet seat…. I can’t stop the visual!  I will never understand how a towel  never meets a towel bar, like [Read more…]

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Pottery Barn Knockoff Recycling Basket

When I saw this recycling basket in the Pottery Barn catalog I knew I could re-create it for much less. Over  the holidays,  I saw the recycling basket in Pottery Barn and it was used as an office filing basket.  I loved it because my office has hardwood floors and is lacking storage, but this fell [Read more…]