Merry Days & Silent Nights Tutorial

So many good things start with the phrase, “So, I had this old sign from a thrift store”, don’t they? Here is a good example… I also clipped the huge raffia bow and wire hanger off of the sign. Just as I was feeling proud that I was showing Molly about the alphabet…she stole sips [...]

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Towel Rack from a 25 cent Shutter

Just Beachy {Linked up to Trash to Treasure Tuesdays at Reinvented.} I painted a shutter from a garage sale in my pre-blogging days. Hence, no true before photo. It was just wood. Next, it was glorious, in it’s sage and black shabbiness. It was ideal for the top of my kitchen cabs as a backdrop [...]

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Green Week :: Day 7 :: Morning

Green Week is Complete This past week I allowed myself to slow down and notice the color green, as a symbol of new life. {The change in weather, a 65 degree increase from Day 1 of Green Week, is an incredible bonus.} I was able to absorb the turning of the seasons using photography. Ironically, [...]

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Hooked On Lamps

Baby Boy’s Nursery Lamp Redo Can I, as a blogger, do anything anymore, without making a docu-drama out of it? Without the hint of a major blog-dom project party to link posts to, do other, non-bloggers, actually DO projects without their camera? Hmmm….. Thanks to the draw of one such a project-post blog party, called [...]

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Artist in Training

Look for giveaway below! Today’s artist, 3 year old Ryan, is still in his formative years. He has been toying around with several types of art media such as: charcoal, pastels, watercolor and crayon. He is often found at his kitchen table studio doing “projects” with tape. Lots of tape. He prides himself with a [...]

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