If you’re looking for a festive touch to your holiday party this year, make these Christmas ornament drink stirrers. It’s a simple DIY that will take about 10 minutes and costs around $10-$15. You might remember these fun little drink stirrers from last year’s Christmas home tour when they made their debut appearance. I love…
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Glam and Spooky Halloween Home Tour
It’s looked like Halloween around here for quite a while now (since early-mid September-ish!), and now the weather is actually starting to feel like Halloween as well! It was still crazy hot here in the South up until about last week. When we got back from fall break, we were so excited to find that…
Easy DIY Halloween Decorations
These easy DIY Halloween decorations will add a touch of Halloween splendor to your home in no time! These spooky decorations are simple to make and each costs under $10 for supplies! Here’s to Halloween – DIY style! It’s September! In my world, that means I’m busting out the skulls, spell book and witch’s hat…
Farm Birthday Invitations using Picmonkey
Every year, I make a customized birthday party invitation for the Circus’ party. This year, it’s a farm themed birthday, so I made farm birthday invitations. It’s actually pretty easy to make your own invitations and on top of that, it’s much more affordable than buying customized ones via other sources. Use this guide to…
Easy DIY Dollar Tree Skull Candle Holder
This skull candle holder won’t cost more than $5 to make and won’t take but about 10 minutes to put together. I’m willing to bet, it’s going to be one of your favorite Halloween decorations this year! It finally happened. It took giving up for it to finally happen, but it happened. When I finally…
Latest Good Reads
I just finished another book reading binge, which means we went to the beach 🙂 and I realized I haven’t shared some of my favorite books that I’ve read lately with you guys! I love that so many of you love the same kind of books I do and I love even more that you…
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DIY Kitchen Banquette
Disclosure: This project was in partnership with Behr Paint, however all opinions are 100% my own. Affiliate links may be included in this post. I really like building things. I’m not an expert in it by any means, but I’m pretty good at basic builds. I’ve most definitely mastered the art of those built-in shelves I make,…
17+ PicMonkey Tutorials, Tips, and Projects
If you have been around here for long enough, you may have heard me chat about PicMonkey* – the way I edit pictures online for free.
But that’s not all Picmonkey does. Nope, you can also create images from scratch on there, make collages, and so much more. All the images you see around here with writing on them, all the collages, all that kind of stuff – I made with PicMonkey.
A Colorful Christmas Home Tour | Part 1
Merry Christmas! Welcome to the first part of my Holiday Home Tour! If you’ve been around for a while, flying your freak flag right alongside me, then you know what to expect – holiday decor at it’s most colorful, meaningful and perhaps a touch on the tacky side. If you are just popping in for…
How to make Character Stocking Holders
Ready to add a fun touch to Christmas decor and make your kid’s eyes light up this holiday season? Then make them their very own unique stocking hanger using this DIY stocking holder tutorial!
Video Tutorials
You’ve read some posts, you’ve seen my About Me page and now you’re dying to know what I really sound like, aren’t you? Well honey, it sure ain’t fancy. I call it Modern Day Minnie Pearl. Here are some video tutorials where you can hear my totally ineloquent southern drawl and also maybe learn something…
Isle of Palms Beach: Where to Stay, Where to Eat, What to Do
If you’re looking for that beach you’ll love coming back to year after year, you can stop looking. Isle of Palms beach is that beach. This barrier island, located just outside of Charleston, SC, IOP isn’t crowded, has a small town feel, wonderful restaurants and yes – beautiful beaches.
The Beloved Foreclosure Home Tour
The Beloved Foreclosure will always hold a special place in our hearts. It was indeed a foreclosure and the first time we went to look at it, there was no running water or electricity. But, it was in our “perfect” neighborhood and we knew we could make it our own. We worked non-stop one summer…
How to Make Lamp Tassels in Five Minutes. BOOM.
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My Favorite Green Decorating Moves
I make no bones about my love of the color green in decorating. I will fully own up to the fact that I use it often and maybe too much for some people. I don’t care though. I’m not a quitter. Meg from Green with Decor emailed me a couple months back and asked if I wanted…
Christmas Home Tour: The Finale
Have you seen the Geico commercial where Europe is performing The Final Countdown?
It’s a fantastic commercial.
Well, I kind of feel like I should be doing a parody of Europe’s song with this post.
It’s the final Christmas tour.
This finale is filled with really simple holiday decor ideas, a few memories (because it wouldn’t be one of my Christmas home tours without them) and of course – some quirk.
Let’s start in the kitchen…
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My Favorite Things Gift Guide
This post is one of my most favorite ones to do all year long.
It’s my favorite things gift guide post, plus a huge giveaway.
I just wish I was rich like Oprah and could give each and every one of you one of my favorite things, instead of only showing you my favorite things and being able to give some away.
But ya know, I do kinda need to send my kids to college, rather than give each and every one of you a sarcastic coffee mug.
But it is a damn good mug.
Either way – I do get to giveaway THIRTEEN of my favorite things to THIRTEEN different people and in the process, you get some pretty stellar gift ideas for people on your gift list. Not a bad deal, eh?
Click the link below to read more and enter the giveaways!
Liquor Cabinet Makeover + Adding Fretwork to Furniture
After a few weeks, I started missing the red.
Not the red on the buffet itself, but just the color red in general.
Apparently, not only are my beloved colors kelly green and navy, but also a bold red.
This really isn’t surprising. Red was always my favorite color growing up. I’m quite sure it became my favorite color when Reba wore the red dress.
If you know the dress I’m talking about, then we are kindred spirits.
So I started hunting for something to paint red.
Que Lorrie Morgan’s Something in Red.
Sorry, I’m not quite sure how this post has become about country music of the 90’s.
And I happened upon my great-grandmother’s china cabinet turned liquor cabinet.
I know. I know. You can judge me. It won’t bother me at all.
It was time for a change.
And not just a change in color, but also a change in location.
Summer Home Tour: The Details Make The Space
It doesn’t matter how many times I paint a piece of furniture or upholster a chair – if the accessories around it don’t look good, the furniture or chair won’t shine and the space will fall short.
The details make the space.
It took me a really long time to realize that.
And a lot of backaches and wasted paint.
I get it now though – and even if we are just talking about decorating – the pain was worth the reward.
As dramatic as that sounds.
So this summer home tour is about the details.
The quirky little objects that I love.
That some may find ugly.
Or even tacky.
But for me, they make my space a reflection of my family.
And that’s all that matters.
So if you love it or hate it, either way, I don’t care.
Because we love it.
And its how we fly our freak flag.
Welcome to our freak show.
DIY Flamingo Wreath in under an hour
Want to dress up your front door for summer? What better way than with a DIY flamingo wreath! The best part? It’ll take just an hour to make!
12 Outdoor Furniture Makeovers That Are Easier Than You Think
Its that time of the year, friends.
Time for sipping drinks, preferably ones with little umbrellas, on porches, decks and patios.
Furthermore, we should all be enjoying those beverages in pretty outdoor chairs, chaises and other comfortable perches. No?
If you are like me though, as you were dusting the three inches or so of pollen off your outdoor furniture, you may have discovered the furniture needed a little facelift of its own.
These outdoor furniture makeovers have my head brewing with ideas. The best part – they were all done with a HomeRight Paint Sprayer. That means they were easy as pie to re-hab.
Now, if only a real facelift were that easy…and that inexpensive. 😉
9+ Must Read Cleaning Tips
If we’re being honest, and since I’m always honest with you, my house is not clean right now.
Its not clean at all.
May is a whirlwind of events for us and cleaning is not one of those events that tends to take place during the month.
Until there is a mad dash next Friday to clean right before the kid’s birthday party so that our guests don’t turn and run screaming out the door…
I can hear the circus talking to her therapist in ten years, “Everyone showed up for my birthday party that year, but then made a beeline for the door when they saw dust an inch thick and dried crusty milk on the floor. They took all their presents with them. I’ve never been the same since.”
Therapy is going to cost me a fortune.
So next week, to hopefully cut down on therapy costs, these are my best cleaning tips that I will actually do…well at least everywhere that guests will be… 😉
Mohawk Lollipop Holder: A Jonathan Adler Knock-Off
This project will fall into the category with the snake bowl and the snake vase for many of you.
That’s the category classified as:
Things Jenna Loves & Most People Hate
That’s perfectly fine.
Me, my snake bowl, snake vase, and the newest addition to the category, the mohawk lollipop holder will be perfectly happy together.