Nightstand Restyling

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If you’ve seen my guest room re-do, this picture will probably look somewhat familiar:

I’ve never been completely satisfied with the nightstand styling in there, so when Emily Henderson announced a nightstand styling contest, BOOM – I knew I was in.

Besides, the prize is a … wait for it … nightstand! And seeing as one of the

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Guest Room :: Before & After

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I promised on Monday that I would give you the whole shebang of guest room pics – beginning with the scary before picture. I love before & after pics, don’t you?

Here’s what the room looked like when I started:

I had so many ideas for colors to use in this room, but continually found my eyes drawn

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Personalized Wall Art

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Hello & Happy Monday!

It seems like the past few months have been a busy blogging time – starting with blogging every day during October, then sharing Thanksgiving, Christmas, & “end-of-the-year” posts. Finally, I have time to share some things that have been going on in my home the past few months! Today, I’m just going to

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Sedum Rubrotinctum

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Last week, I took my kids to Lowe’s. I must start early if I want home improvement stores to be one of their favorite places on earth.

We picked up a few of these guys:

These are my first succulents ever! Can you believe it? After Nester and Sherry posted about their succulents, I began thinking how fun

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Me: 1 / Sewing Machine: 0

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My sewing machine and I have a love/hate relationship.

Sometimes I love it. Other times I hate it. Sorta like my relationship with my workout DVDs.

Anyway, I’m currently on good terms with my sewing machine and that’s because of these puppies:

Yep. Many moons ago I showed you the curtains I made for my guest room (along

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Guest Room Wall Art

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Hello there and a happy Monday to you!

This is me – back in the flesh. Not a guest post, not a post written long before my little man was born, but really and truly me. I am writing this instead of taking a nap…that’s only because my kids have decided to sabotage Mom’s napping schedule and take naps

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Schmurtains

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I am rather excited to share this post with you. if I could duplicate that smiley face a hundred times without being redundant, that would express my excitement quite well.

So, what started as this:

(sorry – ipod pic)

gradually turned into this:

(after a paint

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I Did It.

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Yessirree…I certainly did.

Would you like to know what I did? We will play a game…I will show you part of it and you can guess what I did. ok? here you go:

hmmm…do you know what that is?

well, I got a little head start on my halloween costume. this is my mask.

kidding.

If

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