Brown Sugar Toast

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Tag: my home

  • The [Table] Search is Over

    The [Table] Search is Over

    I’ve been on a search for over a year. You see, our dining table just wasn’t cutting it in the space department. It was totally fine for our family’s purposes. But we love to have friends over for meals and found ourselves frequently seating people in other areas of our home. Not a huge problem…

  • DIY :: picture holder from a large frame

    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…

  • Kids’ Room :: Global Adventure

    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…

  • Storage Bin Options {for Kallax/Expedit} :: what I chose

    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…

  • DIY World Map Wall Art

    DIY World Map Wall Art

    Oh, by the way, we painted a world map on our wall. I debated about even posting this home tidbit, because: 1) We did this over a year ago (right before Miles was born) & 2) I had a hard time taking a good picture of the room. But I figured this might be an inspiration to…