Our kids had their last day of school yesterday! They each had a friend over and played outside all day. Loving our play-set and water under the trampoline. It is always a bitter-sweet day. Ella was too excited to be sad, but Lola said she was sad because she would miss school and her friends. Our kids go back to school the last week in August. I know this summer will fly by for us. We are headed to Yellow Stone National Park soon and a trip to Utah to see family and friends. What summer plans do you have? I will make this Friday Favorites quick! But if you have noticed with me, no blog post ... Read More
Easiest Way to Make Candles- Non Toxic and Natural
I decided to try making candles. I actually volunteered to teach how to make candles for a church activity and not once had I ever made a candle. I was willing to try. I thought candle making would be a fun activity, sign me up! The only problem. Well besides I had never made a candle, was that we were doing the activity outside. No stove. No double broiler. After some research I found that candles have been made in a crock pot. But not the way I wanted to do it. Needless to say. I experimented. And maybe because it was a church activity, it totally worked! This is the EASIEST way to make ... Read More
Small Space Living Series- 110 sq ft Kitchen Tour
I am excited to have a guest feature today! Morgan from @thewhitefarmhouse is inviting us into her kitchen. I am including it as a Small Space Living "Mini" Feature. The kitchen is about 110 square feet and her entire home is 1800 square feet. It really is just an amazing before and after! They also made great use of the space by adding in a cabinet to her dining room to use as pantry storage. She totally makes it work. They are a family of four living in Michigan in this charming house. Let's go see inside... (I linked all the sources at the end of the post). The kitchen ... Read More
Kids Chore Chart- Great for a Summer Chart
Anyone love summer break with kids, but also get a little scared? I am serious. I get scared that they will be standing around me asking what to do next or me reminding them constantly to read, practice math and all the other things that kids need to do to keep their brain active! I love when everyone feels productive and knows the plan. We enjoy getting out and doing active things. BUT I believe there are things that kids need to take ownership of daily. Just like adults. This will help them to feel empowered. It is also a leveraging tool to say "we can't go do an activity until you list ... Read More
Organized and Well Nested Home and Printable- Organizing Challenge
I am very excited to start an organizing challenge with all of you! Personally I just went through the steps to get to an Organized Well Nested Home. After completing all of our organizing and decluttering I thought I really could have used a check list! Or someone holding me accountable. Kevin was actually helpful when I would tell him that I need to work on the basement, he would say "just go do it! I kept talking about it and saying how overwhelming it was. So he would go to the basement with me and work. Most of it I could only sort through. But enlisting a partner, kids, a friend, parent ... Read More
Friday Favorites starts with Shed Magic Light Trick and STRAWBERRY TRICK
I am so thankful for your encouraging words on the shed makeover. Just by taking the time to appreciate not the design, but notice the hard work that goes into something is really a gift so many of you posses. You know it makes you a DAY-MAKER! And if there is something to strive to be it is that! My entire blog and life is about NOT striving for perfection. It is about doing it better than before. If you are working on a project and you have done all the research, created a design board, found an inspiration picture. Go for it! Don't over think it. And most importantly don't compare or ... Read More
$200 Black Shed Exterior Makeover
Kevin had a couple days off this week, the kids are still in school so we couldn't go anywhere fun. In the back of my mind was a FUN project. Always. A little shed makeover! And the way Kevin works it took a day, it would have been less if we didn't have kids and other things going on. I took a poll on Instagram asking what color we should paint the shed, either black or white. The entire time I had wanted to do black. But then I thought....hmmmm maybe white would be better to match our house. You want to know what everyone voted for?? It was basically SPLIT in half! And I just want to preface ... Read More
Five Must-Do’s to your Home for Summer!
Do you make seasonal changes to your home? Making seasonal changes does not mean bringing up a tote from the basement of seasonal decor. It actually could mean the opposite, especially in the summer. Taking things away. For me it does. I put away all the heavy throw blankets and the fuzzy wool pillows (that I LOVE so much). Spring is still chilly for us in Connecticut, so the real changes come about June. I have heard of people removing rugs in the summer for a more drastic change. Besides putting away the heavy throws and wool pillows I move things around, just changing art from one nail ... Read More
Friday Favorites starts with Why and Before and Afters
Friday Favorites with some amazing Before and Afters from some of YOU! The kitchen makeovers, painted cement steps and more just had to be shared! I love seeing what you are up to and possibly what I inspired you to do or try. It makes me so energized! Don't you get like that? We rode our bikes to the beach the other night and I saw someone working on their slats under their deck and I was like, YES! We can totally do ours. Yesterday I shared our Small Space Living Organizing Hacks. I get so many great questions from you that always inspire my next blog post or what to share with you. A ... Read More
Small Space Living Series- Organizing Hacks in Our 1200 Square Foot Home
Today I am finally sharing our home for the Small SpaceLiving Series! All of our organizing hacks and ideas. I took a video of all of the places we keep our stuff, so make sure to watch that at the end of this post so you can see our basement too...where the laundry is. I am warning you now, it is basic. I really don't want to do anything fancy to it, my goal would actually have it be almost empty besides the necessities and extra water! We try our hardest to keep it clean and organized because if it isn't it takes up space in my brain. Anyone else like that? Let's get right after it and ... Read More
