If you want to fix the wrong stain color, a bad stain color, an ugly, outdated or boring stain color, there is an easier way to do it without having to strip the piece of furniture back down to bare wood. In fact with this technique, in most cases, you won’t even have to remove the top coat. What are…
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Look around at your clutter and let IT tell YOU what you need. We just hung a wall mounted vertical coat rack in what some might think is the oddest place. It’s the small strip of wall between our kitchen and our hallway to the bedrooms. But the truth of it is, it’s the spot in our home where my…
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Is finding time to do a full-sweep decluttering showdown a problem for you? How about finding others to help you get it done? Or coming up with the cash to pay someone to help you with it? I can relate because last post-Christmas, I was in a quandary about all of this myself. The story goes kind of like this….
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Here are six nature inspired Christmas crafts that are inexpensive to make and easy enough to complete within a few hours or as a weekend craft project. All of these ideas bring a bit of nature inside for the holidays, whether it’s natural items you can collect from your yard or craft products that look real enough to help you…
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This FREE colorful THANKSGIVING WREATH printable can both go up on your wall for Thanksgiving, and then stay up on your wall throughout the year. Set on a black background it has mix of rusty red, gold and blue-green tones. Not your traditional orange, brown and gold, for this holiday, that’s for sure. Hey friends. I know the celebration of…
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One easy way to update a room inexpensively is to cover your current throw pillows with new pillow covers. They can often cost less than half the price of buying all new decorative accent pillows. The problem is, pillows covers aren’t as readily available to buy in stores like accent pillows are. And even those are getting harder and harder…
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Have you ever gone on vacation, bought a souvenir and found yourself admiring the gift bag it came in? Okay, you are probably not as weird as me, but if you actually look at some of these souvenir bags, they often sport some pretty crafty artwork. I’ve saved several over the years, but there has been one in particular that…
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Hey all. I’m excited to say that our small sun porch sitting area makeover has been completed to the tune of about $800. If you’ve ever done a room makeover, you know how quickly the receipts start adding up. I didn’t determine a budget on this room. Basically I just knew I wanted to paint it, change out the vinyl…
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