I don't know who started the DIY pipe decor trend for home decor, but I salute you! Or lift a plumbers wrench to you or something. 😉 I love the hint of modern style industrial pipe projects can add to any home. Honestly, it's hard to think of a style that wouldn't benefit from at...
Valentines Day Hot Chocolate Bar
February sucks. OK, there's Valentine's Day, but other than that it's just a month you have to get through in order to get to the other side of winter and start dreaming of cute little lambs and chicks and bunnies. So to make my month a little less sucky (spellcheck is telling me that's not...
KonMari Method: For Thrift Store Shoppers
I'm sure by now you've all heard of the KonMari Method for decluttering. It is from the book called The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art Of Decluttering And Organizing , written by Marie Kondo (that's an affiliate link, btw You can read my full disclosure policy here.). But, can we thrift store shoppers,...
Cyclamen Care: How To Grow Indoor Cyclamen
Man, oh man! We're not even having a typically cold-as-a-witch's-butt Midwestern winter here (knock on wood) and all the gray skies and gloom have still got me down. So when I went to Trader Joe's the other day, I picked up a vivid pink Cyclamen to brighten up my world. BTW, have you tried their...
Best Books For Thrift Store Shoppers
Discover the BEST Books for those who love shopping at thrift stores, yard sales, flea markets and other thrifty places. Inspiring and informative books on displaying your collections, how to upcycle your finds into one of a kind pieces, how to craft with your treasures and much more. As a kid I would love to...
The Things You Find At An Antique Mall
This is what happens when you're bored. You're still in Christmas buying mode. And it's a slow day at the antique mall. A few days after Christmas, my son and I drove down to a favorite antique mall a few towns over. It was more or less to just get out of the house and...
Favorite DIY Projects, Tips & Recipes
2016 was a year to go down in the record books. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . It was the year that politics forever ruined Facebook for me. You just can't ever un-see Great-Aunt Mildred's potty mouth rants about her political views. Me, I'd rather go...
Wishing You A Merry Christmas
Have a wonderful weekend and a magical holiday! I have a year-end recap going up in a few days (think of all those year-in-review segments on the morning news shows, but less boring and no Matt Lauer for eye candy), but other than that will be unplugging and trying to enjoy the holidays how they...
A Vintage, Farmhouse, Retro Kind Of Holiday Home Tour
Using my vintage, farmhouse and retro Christmas decor to decorate my home this holiday season. It seems like in the world of blogs you need to constantly outdo yourself each year for Christmas decor. The wreaths get fancier, the trees get bigger, the packages under the tree get more elaborate (you know those are empty...