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Dear Family Room

January 28, 2010

I’m sure you are glad to be back to your old self. Thanks to some much needed tweeting from my good friend, Melissa, I hung your red check mistreatments back up. After a brief email exchange full of laughs and advice seeking, she wisely told me in very firm words to “go put your red [...]

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Do Less, Be More

November 30, 2009

It’s official. The Christmas season is upon us.

The Christmas Tour of Homes is in two weeks. December 14th we’ll all come here and share how we decorate for Christmas. But remember, it’s not a contest~no perfect decorations allowed.

I dare you to do less and enjoy more this year.

This coming week we’ll talk [...]

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Contentment :: A Guest Post

September 16, 2009

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The following is a guest post by Christi from Jealous Hands. I’ve gotten to know Christi over the past few weeks and find her attitude to be refreshing, and freeing. Christi, thank you for trusting us with your story.
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Our house will be foreclosed on October 6.

I’ll bet it’s happening [...]

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Home Wasn’t Built in a Day

September 3, 2009

My boys have never really had any kind of window treatment on their windows other than a randomly tacked up mistreatment that lasts for a few days. My oldest son’s mattress is currently on the floor. In the last couple of years we’ve moved so often that if I delay a month or [...]

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Removing Gunk From Windows

August 6, 2009

When we moved in the first thing I did was removed the weird fern patterned “privacy paper” from the front door sidelights. Y’all. This stuff is like contact paper for your windows only SUPER sticky. One day I walked up and found my boys pressing their hands and faces and well, other [...]

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The Naked Truth

August 5, 2009

We’ve lived here six weeks now and our bedroom still looks like this. And yesterday, Writer Chic wrote a wonderful post showing her beautiful master bedroom transformation and linked to Nesting Place so much that I think my head grew a few sizes. I felt the need to show you my reality just [...]

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Easy Fireplace Surround Makeover * And Giveaway

July 22, 2009

Here’s the after shot of my surround makeover.
And here is one of the billions of befores. Forgive me for the tragedy that is up on the mantle. But do you notice the difference with the black surround? Or whatever that part is called surrounding the firebox? It’s not a huge change [...]

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Life Doesn’t Have to be Perfect to be Wonderful

March 11, 2009

Ever wonder what inspired the tag line for Nesting Place?
It was this post written by Heather who I doubt has ever come to this blog. She’s dealing with more important things these days. I read that post the summer before I started blogging but the simple message was profound and stuck with [...]

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10 Ways to Avoid Having a Home You’ll Love

February 24, 2009

1. Worry that it’s never good enough.
2. Put off doing anything because you don’t know where to start.
3. Aspire to have a home just like the ones you see in the magazines.
4. Tell yourself you don’t deserve it.
5. Assume you can’t have anything pretty because you have kids and not much money.
6. Study up on [...]

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There’s No Wrong

January 13, 2009

Do you ever wish that you could have a set of rules that if you just followed them step by step then whatever goal you are trying to achieve would be met?
Are you looking for rules to follow when decorating your house? I’ve been known to spout a few rules myself but I always [...]

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5 Steps to Enjoying your Home to the Fullest

January 5, 2009

Just like you I’ve been thinking about goals lately. Every year my husband and I take a few days and get together with my sister and her husband and my mom and dad and we share our goals, hang out and be dorks together. It’s one of the highlights of the year. [...]

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The Rules

November 11, 2008

Watch out, I’m deep in thought.Do you try to decorate by following RULES? I found this great little diagram and definitions here. I really didn’t read the too much into it but thought it was a good way to think about decorating.

Bureaucratic: You feel that rules are necessary to get things done. [...]

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Perfect vs. Good

September 24, 2008

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How many things do you put off because you are afraid to fail? Afraid it won’t be good enough? Afraid it won’t be perfect? I am guilty of this in so many areas of my life. This article and this one both found deep in the [...]

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Mistreated Table

August 26, 2008

I was too ashamed to take a before photo of this table that is in my craft room. It had piles of extra stuff that was slowly getting out of control. So I did what any lazy perfectionist would do and I covered it up real cute like.
I’ve got a big bunch of [...]

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High Heels for the Bathroom

August 25, 2008

Are your bathroom cabinets low and feeling all bad about themselves compared to the new 42 inch cabs in all the newer houses? This photo is from my old nest and my poor midget cabinets were in need of either a makeover or counseling. I think the counter top reached just above my [...]

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The Lazy Perfectionist

July 13, 2008

I mistreated my shower. We don’t have a window and I had this fabric that I used in my dining room in our old house. The lower shower rod is bolted into the wall. It was here when we moved in. If it weren’t tightly secured, I might have just moved [...]

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Yesterday

June 16, 2008

I had no idea how many of you were gonna do the easy to remember, rolls off the tongue, IDHTBPTBB post. Can I just tell you that I was hoping, praying that 20 people would take the time to do this? And, I’ll admit I’ve wanted to do it for awhile but [...]

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Imperfectly Beautiful

June 15, 2008

Here it is people! The first post of the it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful party? Carnival? Spectacular? Celebration? I have no idea what to call this! Here’s a photo of my pretty sitting room. Today is my baby’s 7th birthday. [...]

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Imperfectly Beautiful

June 13, 2008

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Otherwise known as: It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. Words to live by doncha think? I get so inspired and secretly happy and feel so normal when I see other moms do things that look great but aren’t perfect.
Am I the only one who feels joy and confirmation [...]

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Swiss Walls

April 23, 2008

I’m getting ready to preach. Preach about my walls. Please forgive me in advance because this is something I’m passionate about! A few of you asked the same great question about my nail holes…
Here’s Jo:
But what do you do with all the holes in your wall above the piano where you [...]

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Pictures, Papers and Terrorists

April 14, 2008

The other day I got this email:
My name is Sophie and I am from France.I need some advice on how to place frames above my mantel.It will be painted non-flashy red and I wanted to spray paint small frames white. But i don’t know how to put them, how to leave space between them, and [...]

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It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful Part 2

January 1, 2008

Last night I was watching whatever channel that is that Jon and Kate plus 8 comes on. Have you seen it? It’s a show where they show the daily life of Jon (not John) and Kate and their 2 twin 6 year olds and their 6 sextuplet 2 year olds. Needless to [...]

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