Christmas is a time when I always feel like my home comes alive! I spend the weekend after Thanksgiving decorating the whole house for Christmas. This year, we added decorations to one of the few rooms in the house we…
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Premiere Surfaces- Countertop Options
Disclaimer: This is a Sponsored Post with Premiere Surfaces. All opinions are my own. All images are from Premiere Surfaces. Between meal preps, cooking, canning, cleaning, and parties I spend a great deal of time in my kitchen. My current…
Pre-Fall Decorating: Sunflower Flags
I affectionately refer to our current season as pre-fall, in Virginia we’ve said goodbye to summer but we haven’t yet said hello to fall. Don’t worry, in another week or two I’ll be the conductor of the Pumpkin Spice Train! In…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Room Edition
Do you love the book, A Very Hungry Caterpillar? Well, then HomeDynamix’s new collection is what you’ve been waiting for… and more. NJ rug brand HomeDynamix has collaborated with renowned children’s author Eric Carle’s to create a collection of rugs,…
Our Oven Upgrade
When we sold our first home, I was devastated to leave mine behind my oven. It was a white coil range, and I loved it. Our new home came with a glass top oven/range, and I wasn’t impressed. Nevermind, the…
How To Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
I bake a lot, which means I use a lot of extracts. Like, a lot. But, I no longer buy the extracts that I use for baking and cooking. Making your extract is simpler than you ever imagined and addictive…
Quick Bedroom Update Under $30!
After my latest trip overseas, I became enamored with the duvet comforter concept. As luck would have it, the comforter in our bedroom had seen better days and was ready to be updated. I perused the Internet to locate a…
Hall Bathroom Light Fixture Update
We were very lucky that our vintage cottage had 2 presentable bathrooms without the tiled walls you see in many of the homes in our neighborhood. There are three bathrooms in the home, but the third is so SCARY… we…
Home Decor: A Few of My Favorite Things
Jerad and I bought a construction site… I mean house two years ago and we have since spent a lot of time and money updating the home and making it “ours”. Remodeling a second home (our first home was a…