I hope you've all had a great New Year's! I don't know about you, but I am always so glad when the holidays are over. Life can become calmer and the house can get back to normal. We spent the whole day upstairs taking down holiday decorations, cleaning and organizing. A few days ago the [...]
Our main living area wooden window repairs are completed! It is a tedious and time consuming job. So glad I didn't have to do it. My hubs is the man for the job, his idea of a fun time is re-piecing a plate that's scattered in to a thousand pieces. I am the kind of [...]
Smiles peeps, It's so beautiful out and Fall is in the air, and I've so being wanting to do some Fall decorating, but I can't! Why - because we are renovating the dinning room windows. Last year I shared with you how bad our living room windows looked. Peeling old looking windows - then we [...]
Smiles Everyone, About two weeks ago I shared our new Two Toned Buffet, I also mentioned that there was another buffet sitting in the garage! I just love buffets, and when I spot a cutey I just can't help myself. But my home isn't big enough to hold two, so there was only one thing [...]
Happy Smiles Everyone, Today I'm sharing my tutorial on how to make a Cottage Lampshade Slipcover. Yesterday I shared with you our new dining room corner vignette that I showed the slipcover in. The Slipcover is very quick and easy project that can be sewn or you could even use a hot glue gun. I [...]
Smiles Everyone! Last week I shared how we took an ugly bookcase to a cottage charmer! Want to see how we transformed her? Check it out here! Isn't she pretty - she needs a little prettying up! I just love it, and pulled all rooms colors in. It look me about 4 hours before [...]
Good Morning, Today is the Charmer's 2nd Guest Post - in celebration of my 1st Blogaversary! Rukmini from Trumatter is gracious enough to join in on the celebration by sharing her creativity with us! Yes, we are very lucky indeed! Some of Rukmini's creativity is shown in the transformation of her DIY Project: Wine Crate [...]
So let's have another 1giveaway 1st Blogaversary GiveAway! A $25.00 gift card to HOME GOODS!!! How Can You Win? Simple - Be a Follower! Either on Facebook, Linky, Email, Twitter or Pinterest! - and leave a comment saying how you follow and how excited you'd be to win! Simple, Right? Want extra entries? Tell Your [...]
Smiles, I'm still in the process of transforming our living area to a cottage style, hubs and I have been working on changing an old ugly bookcase in to a cottage one on a very frugal tight budget! Here's how the bookcase looked before we started (before room painted).. Yikes, that's an ugly bookcase don't [...]
Good Morning, Today is the 1st Guest Post during my 1 year Blog Anniversary Par.tay! I have Audrey from Elegant Economics and I am so thrilled with the post she put together on the Basics of Vignettes. Before I turn you over to Audrey I'd like to share with you some of her beautiful [...]
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