Category: Decor
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valentine’s day thoughts + reads
Valentine’s Day is on a Sunday this year. And I, for one, am glad. I tend to over-complicate holidays. I build up expectations – whether it’s Christmas, my birthday, or Valentine’s Day – and then I try to compensate for my skyscraper expectations by telling myself it doesn’t matter what happens, it’s just another day, and blahblahblah.…
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DIY :: picture holder from a large frame
Several months ago, a friend of ours moved away to New Jersey. She was on her way to donate some home decor items and asked if I wanted to shop her car before she left. One of the things inside her lovely “car shop” was this large 2′ x 4′ picture. When she asked Jonathan…
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Kids’ Room :: Global Adventure
It was probably about 6 months ago when Jonathan and I re-painted our kids’ room. You might remember this flowering branch wall art I created for my little girl several years ago? Yeah. I was over it. So we solved that by painting over it and placing our Ikea storage unit where the wall art + changing table…
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Storage Bin Options {for Kallax/Expedit} :: what I chose
Many moons ago, I told you the story of needing more storage for my kids’ room and finding this lovely via a facebook yard sale group: Remember how I was looking for storage bins and rounded up a lovely list of options I was considering? Here, let me jog your memory with this graphic: Here’s…
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me: 1 | nightstand clutter: 0
I have this lovely piece of furniture next to my bed called a nightstand. I mainly use it to hold books. At least that’s how it originally began it’s life purpose. But after years of use, I opened each of the 3 drawers to reveal a big M-E-double S and that spells MESS. It’s always nice…