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File Cabinet Face Lift
Mail, receipts, and paperwork have long been a pesky nuisance in our house. We had some stashed here, a few stashed there. When we had people over, I’d cram them into a basket and shove it in one of...
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Sometimes Less is Best
For the longest time I had an old basket on my desk which held all my office supplies. It was fine. It got the job done. But it was such an eyesore! I had a handful of Sharpies, several pencils, tape,...
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I Tried It And I Like It: My In-Home Accessories Store!
I was inspired by this post on younghouselove and decided to follow their lead. The idea is to find a space to keep all of your decorative accessories so that you can find them when you want them and...
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Memento Box
I love old things. I love old family things. I want to preserve them, but I want to be able to display them, too. I do a lot of scrapbooking, but some things just don’t go in a scrapbook either because...
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Toybox
This toy box was made for me when I was little by my mom’s step-mom’s dad. I must have been very small because some of my earliest memories were of this toy box. It was plain brown forever. When Ben...
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Bookshelves
I may have an addiction. To High Gloss Black. Everything that falls into my hands ends up coated in High Gloss Black. I may need an intervention. Here’s my latest and greatest project: Shelves. We have...
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Initial Boxes
I have so many items I’ve kept from my boy’s baby and toddler years. The little knitted caps they wore in the hospital, the little I.D. bracelets, cards, extra ultrasound pictures, so on and so forth....
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A New Year, A New Start
I love the beginning of a new year. I love the freshness of it. I love that I can indulge my cleaning and purging tendencies without my family thinking I’m too much of a weirdo. The boys are off of...
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Winter Project Number 1: Bonus Room
After being sick and sitting around for so many weeks, we had a hankering to get some projects done! The first project was started 2 weekends ago. We have a room that will one day be turned into a home...
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Winter Project Number 2: Closet
Every since we moved into our house, our third bedroom has been utilized as a homeschool room. The boys were little and were happy to share, and I had so much curriculum passed down from my mom and so...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The KonMarie Method of Decluttering...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about this book: Several moms in my holistic mom’s group on FB were singing the praises of the KonMarie method, but I was hesitant to try it out....
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Wardrobe Architect
I don’t know how I find these things, but I do. I stumbled upon the Wardrobe Architect series from the sewing blog, Colette, and had so much fun working my through all 14 posts. Basically, if you’re...
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Letting Go
It’s hard to let go. My boys are growing up. I know that’s what’s supposed to happen, but somehow it still catches me off guard. The thrift store where I volunteer challenged people to do a purge – 40...
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New (To Me) Potting Bench
Karen found this sitting by a dumpster and rescued it, but didn’t need it so she offered it to me. It’s not much to look at, and I can tell it’s not going to last super long, BUT I’m really loving it...
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Starting Off Strong in 2019!
The basement has been my shame for several years now. When we first moved in, the house was tiny so I kept the basement clean and had a little area for the boys to play with their Legos. We assumed...
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