Confession

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There’s not gonna be a window mistreatment ebook. Back in December I was trudging right along with working on the ebook.  It was really hard for me to get into writing this in ebook form but, I promised I would have it ready in January and that alone was motivation to kick my working into [...]

Bird Watching

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Blank Space, Dream Shelf, Ebay

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Here’s the other side of our family room.  See that big wall?  That’s where the dresser used to go.  We really, really could use some bookshelf/storage space over there.  Our entire family reads in the family room, my husband is always having to pile his books in corners and my boys do there homework in [...]

How Our New TV is Paying For Itself

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Remember how I hated our TV wall?  I like it much better now.  My husband got all mathy on me and showed me how if we canceled our cable we could still watch our favorite shows and in about 9 months, the new TV will pay for itself with the money we save on our [...]

A Secret Decorating Ingredient :: It’s Awful

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This weekend I finally found something that I had wanted for a very long time. I wanted a sailfish. I felt dumb even admitting it here a few times.  Why in the world did I want a sailfish on my wall?  I remember a fish {was it a sailfish?} on my grandparent’s wall growing up [...]

Bird Watching

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Ellen’s daddy made this bed for her. And by made I don’t mean he put the sheets on, he used like tools and junk. Here’s the whole room so you can drool. A group of lovely ladies got together over the weekend to hang out, shop and create.  They opted out of a blogging conference [...]

Decorating With Dough Bowls

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I blame the cottage. Oh, I had seen these rustic dough bowls used before but always in an über crafty/country/dried flowers with roosters and other things that are pretty but weren’t quite my style.  But, once I saw one at the cottage, I decided that I could incorporate one or 20 into our home. I [...]

Your Camera:: An Unlikely Decorating Tool

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Last week when I did this wall, I could tell there was something off.  I liked it but it still needed tweaking in some way.  It wasn’t until I was miles away in Nashville posting the photos of the plate wall that it became glaringly obvious.  That long platter was messing me up and needed [...]

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