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Kimm at Reinvented talks about the Top Five Budget Decor Rules {eg: Think outside the Barn}.

All this week, Beckie at Infarrantly Creative has been posting about how to reupholster chairs. Makes me want to do it.

Someone just recently emailed me about these drapes available at Country Curtains~they are very similar to the silk buffalo check [...]

Photo: unknown~if you know where it’s from please tell me so I can give them credit
I have a dream.  And it involves this branchy chandelier.  Think I can make one? I’m thinking I could just wrap some kind of bendy branches around a current chandy.  Any thoughts?

Look, here’s another kind: DIY  How to Tree Branch [...]

all this cute loot is or will be available on ebay
Are you ever out shopping and find all sorts of lovely items that you don’t really need but you really love and they are a great price and it makes you sad that no one wanted this darling thing because it is at a thrift [...]

I have a ton of serving dishes and hostessy type items. I guess I could pack them away safely until I was serving someone something or hosting a baby shower but, I’d rather use and enjoy them all the time.

I use this two tiered platter thing {what are these called? I know they have a [...]

This post chronicles the tale of how one tiny room with two walls got a makeover.  No furniture, budget, or marriage was harmed in the making of this room.

Here’s how our little dining room turned sitting room looked up until last week.  I realized it wasn’t working for us when one of our boys wanted [...]

The two winners of the last DaySpring Giveaway for a $50 gift certificate each:

Melanie {no blog but, thehooksfam email–I emailed you}
Alisa D @ While She Slept

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Shey B Giveaway $25 gift certificate winners::
comment winner: Jill @ The Averitt Fam
twitter winner: Rachel @frugalandsimple
winners: email me at nestergirl {at} gmail {.} com and I’ll get you your code
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emily, emily, lindsay, melissa, rhoda, nester, sandy, kimba, jen, laryssa, gina
Blissdom was phenomenal, yet again.  It was beyond wonderful to get to know other bloggers a little better.  I especially loved the time we house bloggers got to spend together even though it was not near as long as I would have liked.  It’s hard [...]

Want to do a little something to help?  Maybe you only have a few dollars to spare or a service to offer?
Find out how you can join in at Hope For Haiti.
You can donate as little as $1 and have a chance to win a great prize–or buy a few tickets for multiple chances.
Maybe you [...]

JoAnne Lenart-Weary, the ever talented and encouraging designer that trained me, has a pet peeve.  She calls it Accessories on Parade. Fitting don’t you think?  It’s so easy to fall into the trap of adding all of our favorite accessories together until they look like they are standing single file in line to get on [...]

I’ve got nothing.  Nothing funny, nothing inspiring, nothing new and exciting, nothing serious and holy, nothing.  It’s 6:30 am on the Monday before Christmas.  I haven’t wrapped one gift yet.  My house is as decorated as it’s going to get for Christmas and you have permission to let yours be as well.  We are hosting [...]

None of us want to go out and buy Thanksgiving decorations. And none of us want a plain unfestive table either.
If you’ve been a good hostess all focused on things like clean bathrooms, thawed turkeys and having enough forks, the last thing on your mind is what to put on your table to make [...]

Our home is far from a thing of pristine beauty. Every room reflects the season of our life. Ebook writing, early Christmas decorating for a post on Monday, and a muddy yard results in all sorts of messy. I’m not a fussy housekeeper.
Sometimes I feel bad–focusing on the lack of order that I [...]

I’m taking a Christmas gift poll, if you are reading in a reader swing by and check your answer..

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PS, did you see that Kimba moved?!
Here’s something I “made” for my neighbor when I found out that it was her birthday…meet me at (in)courage to see it.