It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful
** UPDATED, this painted hutch and table were photographed in May 2012 and are featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Better Homes and Gardens Do It Yourself Magazine on news stands through April 9th, 2013** Yee haw! **They were also photographed in January 2013 and will be featured in the Better Homes & Gardens [...]
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Ahh, this is the final planned installment chronicling my love and devotion of Angela’s Painted Cottage, a vacation rental in the mountains of North Carolina that we stayed at a few weeks ago. I can’t promise I’ll never talk about it again though. Read part 1 The Painted Cottage, part 2 Good Bones vs Accessories, [...]
The other day we talked about one of the things I learned about myself at the Painted Cottage–I tend to rely too much on my accessories to carry a room. I went on and on about how the bones of a room can be part of the room itself–molding and paneling and flooring and stuff. [...]
Remember those inexpensive canvases that my boys painted? I grabbed one and hot glued it to a deeply framed mirror that I got at a yard sale years ago for $5 and then painted red and then painted white. I found another stray painted canvas and dug out my $10 Hobby Lobby letter stamps and [...]
I shopped the house and made this piece of wall art. Do you remember seeing that black framed wood in my house before? I bought it years ago and I remember a few weeks after I bought it I tried to return it because I wasn’t in love with it. But something weird happened and [...]
I got some comments from this post about my 75 cent little paintings that I’ve had for 15 years. Some of you couldn’t believe that I keep stuff for that long. And I do, if I’m emotionally attached to it. However, there are also quite a few things that I get rid of. I had [...]
Since we busted up some parades yesterday, I though we should talk about good and honorable ways to accessorize. Let me assure you, I am accessory’s biggest fan. I love accessories. I dream about accessories, I am connoisseur of accessories. Of course, these are all my big fat opinions, they are not rules, no accessory [...]
There is something about these glass apothecaries that lend themselves to any season. I guess it could be the fact that they are clear and pretty and you can put anything you want inside them. Shells, an old finial, pretend eggs and nests, fake snow, silver anything, tiny bottle brush trees, berries, rocks, notes, nuts, [...]
How do you decorate your Christmas tree? For most of us, it’s not a matter of deciding what aisle of ornaments to purchase. In a perfect world, it would be fun to get to buy hundreds of dollars worth of the latest Christmas decor ever year, but that’s completely unrealistic. We just want to know [...]
Remember how I told you that I kept pulling things out of my yard sale pile to keep? I had already priced a bunch of topiaries but decided to keep them at the last minute. I used them two Christmases ago on my mantle. I was tired of my unnaturally green, unnaturally perfectly round topiaries. [...]
I've got a secret that will unlock creativity and hope for your home. Ready? Here it is:: It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. Yep. That's it. All you have to do is believe it. Read More…
