I came home from the grocery store the other day to 1,500 black and gray scrawny looking birds devouring my $7.95 birdseed bell. It was like a scene out of The Birds movie. Tippi Hedren would have been running for cover. I had bought the bell at a specialty bird store for my pretty Cardinals,...
Vintage Wall Pocket Organizer
Do you all know what a wall pocket is? They were quite the "arrow" or "bunting" of home decor back in the early 1900's. No self-respecting Martha Stewart wannabe housewife would be without one. What? That was before Martha's time? She's no spring chicken you know! They were normally ceramic, shaped like vases, animals, houses,...
Christmas Home Tour: Thrift Store Decor Style
I went back and forth whether I wanted to call this a home tour. Because it's not. And then it is. I decorate my home for my family and me, first and foremost. I feel as a mom that should be my focus at Christmastime and not being all concerned about how it will photograph...
Tom And Jerry Drink Recipe
Two years ago I found a vintage Hazel Atlas Tom And Jerry set at a local antique mall for a really good price. Of course, I snatched it up. I got all excited about it and shared it on Instagram and chatted about it on Facebook then promptly forgot about it. Months went by and...
100 Best Thrift Store Makeovers
It's Thrift Store Decor Wednesday and today we're going to show you our 100 Best Thrift Store Makeovers from this past year! I'm going to highlight a few of my favorite makeovers and then at the bottom you will see a whole ton more of them! 100 to be exact! Is a hundred a ton?...
Adding Retro To Your Christmas Porch Decor
Today is Christmas Porches Tour day!!! It's the day I get to team up with some amazing bloggers to show you what we've been up to on our porches for the holiday season! I am so EXCITED! And if I'm being honest, a little bit scared! This is the only official tour I do for...
Easy Holiday Front Porch Planters
Every year I show you how I make the porch pots as part of my outdoor holiday decorations on the porch. Last year they were very festive with lots of red accents and had more of a Christmas vibe to them. The year before, they had somewhat of a farmhouse look. This year I decided...
20 Beautiful Winter Planter Ideas
I always try to do something fun and extra festive for the planters on my porch for the holidays. And hopefully make something that will last LONG past Christmas, so it will be able to stay on the porch throughout the rest of winter. Around here there's not a lot of prettiness happening in mid-January,...
Mid Century Plant Stand DIY
I've been on a little bit of a plant buying kick recently and I was needing some planters that would be worthy of my new babies and kick my plant cred up a bit. And I feel like these wooden mid century plant stands are a nice way to do just that! Although my house...