Category: House Love
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New House Love {In progress}
The living room is FINALLY painted. After the disaster of wrong paint colors and only having small chunks at night to paint (and the shear procrastination of climbing up the extension ladder 500+ times to cut in our high ceilings), the living room is done. I settled on Behr’s Gobi Desert for the main wall color (this is…
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Refinishing a Dresser
We got a dresser from my brother-in-law when they moved a while back. It was too big to fit in their new space, but it was a solid wood dresser – so I couldn’t pass it up! It needed a little TLC and a little drawer repair but was otherwise in good functional shape. I…
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DIY Simple $5 Wreath
I wanted to have part of my new living room design include a wreath or two over the mantle. I had found several mantles that I loved on pinterest and loved the ability to change out the wreaths for the different seasons. I finally have the mantle decor up and finished (I just have to…
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Final Paint Colors!
Many of you saw the “dalmatian” walls I had in trying to decide paint colors. I loved all your comments and suggestions on paint colors – especially those that gave reasons behind it. After reading all the comments and many visits to the paint store I finally decided on a paint color. Super excited I…
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Freezer Crock Pot Recipes
I talked here about my mass prepping of food for freezer crock pot cooking, to have easy to prepare and super low cost meals for the next few months. Here are all the recipes I pull from when I do my mass meal making. Try them out and let me know how you like them!…
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Freezer Crock Pot Cooking Day
Welcome Pinners!!! First I have to say: WOW! I am totally shocked at the response to this post! I’ve had a lot of people ask about the shopping list I used. Here it is! This includes all the things I wouldn’t normally have in my pantry. Things like salt and other spices I didn’t include…
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How I keep my house clean – Schedules and check lists
I love check lists. Check lists for everything keeps me sane. If I tried to just remember everything that needed to be done, even if it is only a few things, I just would totally blank. I have tried a ton of systems for house cleaning. There’s a lot out there. But really what I’ve…
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Backyard Makeover
When we bought our new house the back yard, smack dab in the middle of the grass, looked like this: Now I love roses and all, but an overgrown rose bush in the middle of the yard is not very 2 year old friendly. And the two random mini pine trees – yeah those have…
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Growth Chart
Right before we moved, Brad’s Aunt Susie (who is a super crafty Aunt) made these wall hanging growth charts for both the boys. They are all quilted, the little boy in the middle is made from material! They have their names at the top (and a pocket to store markers for ages 8 – 14)…
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How I keep my house clean – The less stuff you have…
Moving, though I really hate it, is super helpful in getting rid of stuff that you never have or honestly will use. We moved stuff into our old house that we would “some day” use. “Some day” didn’t come in 2 1/2 years. I’m pretty certain that if we waited 2 1/2 more years it…