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The Lazy Person’s Guide to Refinishing a Table
I really need to write about half-assing your way through home improvement and/or life in general. I am really good at making my home look like I spent a lot of time tending to my decor etc.. when in fact, I am a bit of a fraud. I am not good at painting, restoring, fixing, and anything else that goes along with home decorating. I make it nice, as Dorinda from Real Housewives of NYC would say. Nice IMade It Nice GIF from Nice GIFs I create the illusion of complete serenity as chaos looms underneath the surface. I have a Pinterest board FULL of splendid ideas to make my home even more…
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How To Decorate For the Holidays Using Only the Target Dollar Spot
Target Dollar Spot, for those who aren’t informed, is the little section at Target by the front doors that offers little items for under five dollars. Back in ye olden days (so like five years ago or maybe more), they only offered items at a one dollar price point. Then Target being the sneaky bastards that they are (obviously this isn’t a sponsored post), decided to sneak in some three dollar items to see if we were paying attention. Then they were just ballsy and added five dollar items as well. I have a love-hate relationship with my Target Dollar Spot for this reason. Also because my closest Dollar Spot usually sucks. You…
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My Dad & “I” Built a Picket Fence
I say “I” because in all reality, my dad did most of the building and I like to think we know each other well enough here that you would already realize that even before clicking on the link to this post. When Mike and I were driving home from dropping Anna off at college, I was thinking of things to keep me busy so that I wouldn’t miss her as much as I did at that very moment. It was as we were in the middle of God knows where (an actual place, by the way), an idea popped into my head: I MUST HAVE A PICKET FENCE FOR MY HOME…
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Fall Home Tour 2018-The Same as Summer, Only More Orange
To be honest, I was a little sad about putting up the fall decorations this year. Look how summery it is in hereeeeee. Sigh. But fall is upon us and I only had one day to put it up and out, so I decided to light a pumpkin candle and get it over with. I also would like to add that since putting this up, I made a loaf of pumpkin chocolate chip bread and ate half of it. DAMMIT, FALL. So this is what I do to get myself motivated: turn on all of the lights (unless it’s sunny), and blast music. On this day, it was a mix…
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My Favorite Budget-Friendly Fall DIY Ideas Because We’re Broke
‘ And by “we”, I mean “all of us”. Until I get discovered, or my screenplay gets made, I don’t have excess money to spend on things like decorating for holidays. I want to spend money on it but I need to pay for things like food, water, and light. So I have relied on three places to get my fall stuff: Goodwill, Hobby Lobby, and Dollar Tree. Not necessarily in that order. Thank God for the above because otherwise, I would have a crepe paper pumpkin and like, one candle. NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. I just like to decorate for the cozy holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and…
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Family Cave Makeover
When Ella was born, my mom came from central Illinois to spend two weeks helping me adjust to baby-hood again. At the time, it was a survival technique. It was January, really cold in these here parts. It was dreary, and dark at four in the afternoon in these here parts. Mike was working long-ass hours and I had a little postpartum depression with Anna, so I knew with Mike being gone, I was going to need my mommy more than ever before. In those two weeks, she saved my soul by bringing along Facts of Life on DVD to watch at any hour of the day or night; she…
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How I Made a Canvas Using Photowall*
*”I” didn’t really make it. *But read on because it’s a good story and you are better at these things than I am, so you’re good. I mentioned a few weeks ago about a mural company contacting me and a brick wall snafu that followed. Here is an excerpt of that conversation from my Home Tour post: Long story long, I had a mural company reach out to me back in the fall asking if I wanted to write about their company if they shared with me a mural of my choice. I was all HELL YEAH because that meant one less wall to paint. Not at all…
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Home Tour 2017-2018
When people come into my home for the first time, I usually hear “your home is adorable!” or “I love how you decorate!”. To which I reply, “thank you! It’s what I like to call garage sale chic.” Because that is the best name for my home’s decor. I am not trying to be trendy, or “that” blogger who can turn trash to treasure; we don’t have a lot of money to use on decorating our home, it is out of necessity, not fun. So I make up for the fact that we live among garage sale crap by making what we do have look prettier, and to be honest,…
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Holy Shiplap
So there’s this trend called “Farmhouse Chic” or just “Farmhouse” that is going around. Have you caught it yet? No? You’re one of the lucky ones then. Probably got one of them shiplap vaccines. I have to admit, I love the farmhouse look but I would like to state that Joanna Gaines is not responsible for this look. I don’t know that Joanna Gaines had ever been on the inside of a real farmhouse in her life before moving out to the countryside of Waco Texas with her four kids, whimsical husband and many trendy yuppy goats and such. The inside of most farmhouses don’t look like this: Most…
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I Hate Painting Furniture
I do. I really, REALLY do. I have read my share of DIY blogs to know that everything that I crank out is sub-par at best. In fact, one could argue that my once DIY blog no longer has anything to do with DIY. That is unless DIY stood for Dammit! Ick! Yikes! which is exactly my reaction to anything I try to remedy on my own as it pertains to decor. I am good at decorating. I am bad at painting. And for the sake of every piece of untouched furniture in my home, I need to turn in my paintbrush. Because it’s insulting to the furniture when the…
