I love the look of String Art and I had been wanting to try my hand at it- honestly it seemed really hard just looking at the images I saw on Pinterest. Most tutorials I saw required that you use an overhead projector to make the design, I don't know about you but I don't have one of those laying around. I shared how I made the first string art design I ever did HERE. Christmas is getting closer and I wanted to give the string art a seasonal change too. Sadly the first design I tried was a #fail. I didn't give up, I tried again and ended up with a really cute Christmas Design. I took ... Read More
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Writing Desk For Small Spaces
In a smaller home you have to get creative with your furniture placement. Making the most of every.single.space. A home office just wasn't happening in an 1100 square foot home with three kids. I was thrilled when I found the THIS small desk to use in our upstairs family room. It created a great space for blogging, puzzles, coloring and storage for guests. Not to mention, I love the way a small desk looks behind a sofa rather than your traditional sofa table. It is a great way to maximize your small spaces. I floated the sofa into the room to separate my daughters Legos and toys from ... Read More
Our Halloween Home Tour
I am hit and miss with Halloween decorating. Some years I decorate and some years I do nothing. I actually just gave away almost all our Halloween decorations, thankfully I saved a few of my favorite things because my girls have been asking for it! Every year since we started having kids we have gone to my sisters for trick-or-treating and a Halloween party. I always love it. Since moving away from family we didn't get to do that last year. I really missed it. My sister makes it so festive and fun. I thought I should put in a little extra effort this year. Perfect timing to join along with my ... Read More
Eclectic Fall Home- Take II
Welcome to my Fall Home Tour- Take II! I couldn't pass up the opportunity to join in the Blogger Stylin' Home Tours, hosted by my friend Lindsay from White Buffalo Styling Co. and 30 other talented bloggers. If you are following on the tour and found me from The Nester, then let's have a moment of silence for her amazing tour. She is one of my favorites. Thank you for joining me as I share the rest of our 1950's Connecticut Cape with some easy fall decor updates. I have really been trying to simplify and get rid of things that I don't absolutely love or would not buy again today. In a ... Read More
Fall Inspiration
My kids start school Thursday this week. Is it bad to say that I am kind of excited? I saw a picture on Facebook that went viral about the Mom cheering and doing leaps in front of her kids obligatory first day of school pictures. She was pumped. She is awesome, I get it. Don't get me wrong I love my girls so much. But it will be nice to have them learn and not feel so much pressure to make sure they read and get something out of the day! I can pass that responsibility onto someone else. I would not be good at home schooling. Anyways I digress.... Now that they have started school I have ... Read More
Beach House Tour and Retro Kitchen
We were fortunate enough to have made some really great friends right when we moved to Connecticut in 2015. I met my friend Sarah at the Crossfit I go to, one of the best places to make new friends when moving to a new area along with church. Our kids are both the same age and we had a lot in common. They invited us to this beach house that they stay at every summer for a week in East Haven, Connecticut. It is about a 45 minute drive my my home. Last year when I went I was pleasantly surprised at how charming it was! I knew this year I would make sure to take the big camera to take some ... Read More
Banquette Style Seating in a Small Space
If this banquette could talk. Oh the hours that have been spent here...my husband watching me cook me watching my husband cook dinner. When we have guests come and stay with us they could tell you the amount of time we spend in this little 10'x13' space talking late into the night and snacking. If it was all wood chairs I don't think we would spend as much time here. The settee makes for a great gathering space and also feels like banquette seating. I would do this 100 times over. When people ask me my favorite part of our home I always say the kitchen. It has not always been my favorite. When ... Read More
Best Baby Products
I really like to know what others find important or useful with new babies or that make great gifts. Our little baby boy is two months old now and there have been products that I didn't know about with my girls and wish I had with them. These are some of my favorite baby products and what I tell all my friends that are new moms they should get! *Contains affilate links- these are all items I recommend- I receive a small commission when you order an item I link to. Your price stays the same. Finn started sleeping eight to ten hours at night when he was six weeks old. Before that he ... Read More
Summer Home Tour and Seasonal Decor Changes
I am so excited to be sharing our home for Simply Summer Home Tour hosted by Nina Hendrick along with Country Living and Birch Lane. This week 29 other bloggers have been inviting us into their homes to show us some fresh summer updates. I love seeing where people live and how they make their environment comfortable and inspiring to them. If you are new to my blog, welcome! We have been working on our 1950's 1100 square foot Cape for the past year and half. We moved from Utah to Connecticut and have really been enjoying our life on the East coast, being 800 meters from the beach helps! We ... Read More
Our Baby Boys Nursery Reveal
Before the finished photos I wanted to show that setting up this nursery was quite the process as any remodel of a room can be. And sometimes we forget the the process can be so exciting too. I knew that things would get better, although it felt like it wouldn't. All the boxes we had sitting in our backyard would eventually get opened and pieces put together, in a small house you don't have a lot of room to shuffle things around. My little assistant always by my side extremely excited to open all the gifts we were given and to help me "organize" it all. Makes me so happy to see how ... Read More