I know you are all curious about my free Craiglist mirror 🙂  But first, a little weekend recap…. Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!  Ours was nice and relaxing.  Saturday we did a little garage saling, a Menard’s run, and a trip to the Scenic Overlook on the trashhill in Bolingbrook.  Yesterday, after church […]
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Just a warning there are a LOT of pictures in this post.. I’m attempting to teach myself photography 😉 I’m excited to show you the progress I made in decorating the bedroom.  While Jake was a little sad to have his fishing lure puzzle taken down, I think it’s for the best. 😉  I was
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Lately I’ve been loving gold leafing! (This probably has to do with a project that I’m very excited to share with you soon…. ;)) Â Gold leaf adds such a fun and sparkly, yet rustic look to where ever you apply it. Â Here are some fun fall gold leaf projects I found. Grace over at Stripes
Hello all!  I hope you like the new blog design.  It’s been a blast playing around with it all and getting it just right 🙂 Today I wanted to share with you my makeup storage solution.  I bought this tiered stand a year or so ago at Savers for $3.  Thinking I might use it
I love making things. Â DIYing something, for whatever reason, is infinitely more satisfying to me than simply buying a similar piece. Â Knowing that I can make more of what was less (and save loads of money in the mean time) gets me all excited and jittery! But… I really appreciate classy (and sometimes ‘high-end’) looking
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As I’ve been brainstorming what lovelies I should fill our picture ledges with, I’ve fallen in love with the themed vintage prints gallery walls. Â It seems like they are everywhere and of everything! Â I think the botanical ones are the most neutral and therefore the most popular. Â But, I must say I also love the
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Several weeks ago, Mr. Fancee and I decided to make two picture shelves to hang above our couch. Â My vision is to collect lots of neat frames and artwork/pictures for a gallery wall. Â These photos were the inspiration for the project: Well, it was a learning process, but we finally completed the shelves and hung
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Lately I’ve been LOVING stripes! Â I know they are really trendy right now, but they are also so classic. Â Specifically I’ve been dreaming of black and white striped walls, ribbons, dresses, and well… everything! Â Here are a few inspiration boards with some of my favorite striped pics. Â Hope you enjoy and Happy Friday! Black &
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Last week while perusing the local thrift stores I found this beautiful gold oval mirror. I just love how it classes up our living room! I’ve been searching through thrift stores a lot recently to find frames and art for the picture shelf we are currently building (more on this soon, hopefully!). Originally for this
Have you ever had one of those projects that looked a certain way in your mind, but the final product looked… well not quite like that.. ? Â That’s how I’m feeling about this calendar. I’ve been wanted to DIY a calendar so we had one that was a little cuter than the white dry erase
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