Imagine a slideshow of all the plants I have killed over the years. It's long. The plants are brown, dry and ugly. At my front door I especially have a problem. The mid morning sun blasts my front door and with the Californian he ...

I just added the last reveal picture to the advent calendar reveal. If you tried stopping by yesterday, you probably could not load my site. As I posted on the Facebook page, our entire neighborhood had an 11 hour power outage. f ...

I am so incredibly happy with how this guest bath turned out. From that little idea in my head, to reality. By far the most remodeling we have done to any room in the house, and we have done quite a bit of it. Let's first take an ...

I made some felt sleeves for some inexpensive votives that I got at Target a while back. I paid 50c for each. They are almost perfectly straight up and down, so they were very well suited for this craft project. I measured and ...

You need: 1 vine of leaves (I got mine at JoAnn's with a 40% off coupon at $7) 1 flower pot 1 flower stand. I have seen these at Lowes and places like that. 2 blocks of oasis 2 pieces of wire, heavy gauge. Small pieces of light g ...

Linking up: (Click banner to go) I needed some green color on my open kitchen display shelves and I needed something that I did not have to water or change out too often. I went to Jo Ann's (craft store) and got a few simple i ...

I was really inspired when I saw this post by Emily Henderson. I was also inspired by a butterfly art piece by Ali Edwards I made two pieces of paper art for one of my living room art walls. I made this smaller piece that fits ...

I started taking art classes with my son and we are having so much fun. Last weekend I tried my hand at drawing from a photograph. This was the first drawing I attempted on my own outside of class. I took this picture of some fl ...

This is the first decorating project in our house. My son's bedroom was the first room to receive a make-over. He is 8. Here is the before picture from before we moved in. Clutter was by previous owner: The center piece/foc ...