If you work from home, then take my advice. Get your home office in tip-top shape. Paint it. Decorate it. Organize it. Make it you. I’m not sure quite how, but somehow, magically, once you do that, you become so much more productive. So much more saner. So much more feeling like maybe you can just…
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Freak Show Friday: Signs You’re Raising a Well-Rounded Child
From the time the Circus was born, all I ever wanted was for her to be a well-rounded kid. I of course want her to be happy and laugh and play, but I also want her to appreciate music of all kinds, love aspects of both the city and the country, appreciate dressing up and…
No house is a home until it has a few good decades on it.
This post is sponsored by Liberty Mutual. While this was a sponsored opportunity, all content and opinions expressed here are my own. In my adult life, there has only been one house I’ve lived in that didn’t start out as a fixer upper. That one house was actually a brand-new construction. We were in that…
DIY Clothes Rack and Free Printable Size Dividers for Your Next Yard Sale
Yard sale season is so close, I can almost taste it. Nearly every Friday come spring, the Circus and I will load up and hit all the area yard sales. And then on Saturday morning, we’ll do it again, courtesy of our chauffeur, Grunt Labor. And of course, my friends and I have become quite…
Over 50 Home Decor Fabrics under $15 a yard
In the last month or so, I have scoured online fabric stores looking for the perfect upholstery material for projects in my office and upcoming projects at the farm. Usually, I end up finding the perfect fabrics, but not at the perfect prices. Champagne taste on a beer budget. The story of my life. This…
Types of Paint for Cabinets
I get multiple painting questions every week. I thought I had covered most all painting topics with my Complete Guide to Painting Anything, but getting those questions tells me that I haven’t. And that’s totally ok! That’s what I’m here for – to answer as many of your DIY questions as I can or be…
A front row seat from a lawnmower.
We were watching In the Heat of the Night when I told him I thought I should learn how to drive the tractor. Sitting in his recliner, with a cigarette between his fingers, he nodded his head. A week later, there was a new riding lawnmower in the toolshed for me. I was not surprised. My…
Free Printable Horse Art
My pap bought my brother and I a horse once. His name was Charley. I shit you not. He bucked my brother and I off one day though and after that my pap just told us Charley ran off to the ridge. In reality, he got sold. I didn’t get on another horse for a…
Simple Valentine Wreath in 10 Minutes with Vintage Valentines
I never knew Grunt Labor’s grandfather, but after the many stories I’ve heard about him, I feel that we would have gotten along quite fabulously. Although, he would have never used the term fabulously. Among other things, we both liked to hang onto things. Some might call it hoarding. I, and maybe Grandpa, though would…
How to Build a Children’s Stage with Hidden Dress-Up Clothes Storage
All I ever wanted to be was either Reba McEntire or Dolly Parton. I mean really, that isn’t too much to ask, is it? I didn’t think so either. When my singing voice never quite caught up with my dreams, I decided I would be ok being a Modern Day Minnie Pearl. I mean, Minnie…
How To Get a Layered Caribbean Blue Look When Painting Furniture
This post is sponsored by Velvet Finishes, however all opinions are 100% mine. Affiliate links are included in this post. Rarely do furniture projects go as planned around here. In fact, they often go full speed ahead, jump the track and end up over the bridge in the opposite direction of where I had intended…
How to Paint Baseboards
When you decide to renovate a house, you pretty much know that the renovation will include painting just about every single room.
But when you see that house the first couple of times, you are too caught up in the potential to realize just how much painting there is to do – and not just painting of walls, but also of ceilings. And baseboards. And basically all trim. And all doors. Oh and then all cabinets.
And that’s when you want to go in a corner and cry and hide and ask yourself why, why, why did we do this to ourselves???
Oh ok, that’s just me.
No it’s not. Admit it. You’ve been there or at least been in a similar situation.
Every single room, every single door, cabinet, baseboard and piece of trim have to be painted in the 70’s Landing Pad.
Now, I wasn’t too concerned about how much time it would take to paint the walls – rolling doesn’t take too long. The same was true of the doors and cabinets – I would be able to spray a good portion of those with my paint sprayer.
All the trim though – particularly all the miles and miles and miles of baseboards were causing a touch of anxiety.
But get this – in the end, it took me about 30 minutes (minus drying time) to paint all the baseboards in the living room, dining room, and hallway of the 70’s Landing Pad.
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Embracing the Imperfections
Hey there. 🙂 I’m still here. I’ve been missing your (virtual) faces. I know it’s been over a month since I’ve last posted. I guess you could say I’ve been easing into 2018. Some people may refer to it as laziness. 😉 I’m sure other blogs you follow have by now posted all about their…
A shower of blessings…
There comes a day in every mom’s life when you simply have to do what must be done. You can no longer put it off. You can’t try to weasel your way out of it. You have to put on your best face and smile. Literally. You have to get the freakin’ family photos made….
A Colorful Christmas Home Tour
Yesterday, I shared a home tour of our farmhouse all decked out with its Christmas decor. Today, I’ve got a holiday home tour of the 70’s Landing Pad and it’s pretty different from the farmhouse… While both are filled with decorations full of memories and many vintage, this one is quite a bit more colorful….
Vintage Inspired Farmhouse Christmas Tour
I’m going to be honest, y’all. Christmas decorating this year was stressful. I’m sure that part of it was due to the fact that I was decorating both the 70’s Landing Pad and the farmhouse, but there were some serious moments of wanting to huddle myself in a corner and cry it out. And maybe…
Unique Gifts for Someone Who Has Everything
Sometimes it can be so hard to figure out what to get the person who has everything that’s on your gift list. If they need something, they usually buy it for themselves, right? Well, this list of unique gift ideas for the person who has everything is sure to have something on it they will…
What the Circus is Getting for Christmas
I think we’ve covered gift ideas for just about every kind of person this year, except kiddos. I usually don’t do gift guides for kids because each kid is so different about what they like at different ages. Since the Circus is a big part of this blog though and is the reason for many…
