Craft Projects to Make to Decorate Your Home

Light Up The Night: Outdoor DIY Lighting Ideas

May 24, 2013

5 + Outdoor Lighting Ideas for your backyard

June 21st marks the official start of summer, but for most of us, Memorial Day is the launch of the season with backyard cookouts with family and friends. Memorial Day is Monday! We have no plans, but I want to get my backyard in shape and plan on cleaning out the garage this weekend to [...]

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Chalk Painted Kitchen Dishtowel Rack

May 1, 2013

Way back in August of last year, Ed and I helped our oldest move into an apartment close to the medical school she is attending. The previous tenants had just moved out. The place was not clean yet, so I took it upon myself to at least start cleaning the kitchen until the cleaning company [...]

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Decorating Details: Shelf Trim

April 26, 2013

Sometimes it is the subtle little details that can make the biggest difference in the appeal of a decorated room. They catch your eye and take whatever they are embellishing up a notch on the style scale. I love the decorating details and enjoy finding ways to add them to every room. They are the [...]

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Hidden Chic: Add Pattern & Color Where You Least Expect It

April 3, 2013

Decorating and organizing cabinets and shelves with colorful patterned gift wrap

Spring color may not be blooming outside my house yet, but I am making sure it is coming to life inside. Spring cleaning is one of the best rituals we can do to renew and refresh, not only our home – but our well-being even more. I am enjoying the process of going from room [...]

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Houndstooth Step Stool

April 1, 2013

I have another easy furniture before & after decorating idea for you today. One that you can complete in less than 30 minutes and have you stepping in style! One that is a little bit different from the norm of using paint or decorative paper. To give a plain stool a little bit of chic, [...]

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Furniture Makeover: No Paint Needed

March 26, 2013

Decorative Furniture makeover using removable wallpaper

You know that I enjoy transforming furniture and decorative accessories with paint, right? I sometimes feel like a paint brush is attached to my hand like Inspector Gadget – always ready and instantly accessible to put my style on everything with the swish of my brush. My twin sister, Carol (yes, I am an identical [...]

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Mudroom Organizing Wall–Grand Central Station

March 24, 2013

I have a fun decorating and organizing project for you today, one that I have been wanting to create in my house for a long time. Recently, Command Brand asked me if I would like to come up with a few decorating projects using their damage-free wall hanging product. It didn’t take me long to [...]

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How To Create a Monogram to Print Using Microsoft Word

March 8, 2013

Creating a monogram printable | tutorial

This is Part 2 in a series of 3 about Decorating Ideas Using DIY Monograms. In my post yesterday, I showed you how I took a monogram that I made on my computer into a way to decorate objects around your house or to embellish a gift. Today I am going to show you how [...]

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The Container Store: Knock-Off Magazine Files

January 7, 2013

I have been organizing over the weekend while I was waiting for paint to dry on a few projects I was doing. The biggest one – the wood file cabinet for my studioffice that I showed you last week. I am almost finished it. It still has a few more tweaks to go and then [...]

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Scrap Fabric Christmas Tree Photo Ornaments

December 7, 2012

It is beginning to look a little like Christmas around my house – the outside is all decorated and I have Ed and my youngest to thank for helping with that. Now I am trying to get the inside done. I am not doing a lot this year – just enough to make the house [...]

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