In case you’ve missed the Christmas trees and songs blasting through the speakers at stores, it’s that time of year again! Before we know it, December will be upon us, and for me, that means getting my holiday cards ready! The past few years, I’ve gone the route of making photo holiday cards to send to friends and family (see last year’s here). Every year, I seem to go with a different online shop, and this year, I’m excited to select a holiday card design from Minted.com! What’s unique Read More
Personal Planner Review
I confess. I’m a huge office-supply freak. I love new pens, notebooks- you name it. But perhaps my favorite item of all is a planner. I’m one of those gals that lives and breathes by her planner. No digital calendars or notes for me- I’m a fan of pen and paper. Needless to say, I always get excited as the calendar year starts wrapping up—it means I can start hunting around for a new planner! Last year, I tried out the Erin Condren life planner for the first time (review here.) It was Read More
DIY Desk in the Office
Last fall, the husband and I started talking about what we wanted to do with the living room space. The room is oddly shaped with a rectangular inset on the back wall, which was too small to fit a couch. Once we put our heads together, we knew what we wanted to do—use the space for a DIY desk in the office with custom built-ins! In getting through this project, I took the creative director role, and my husband took the execution side of things. In other words, I had the “vision” and picked Read More
The $5 DIY Jewelry Holder
After buying and installing a closet organization system, I have been SO happy with the result. Everything is super visible and accessible, not to mention much more organized with everything in its place. Except for my jewelry. I’ve stored my necklaces and earrings one of those double-sided hanging things with lots of small clear pockets. Trouble was, it was hung on the back of our bedroom door and I had to lift it and flip it around to get at the other half of my jewelry. Plus, the dang Read More
2013…Greatest Hits
I thought it'd be interesting to see the most popular posts I've done from the past year...so here are the top ten! Click the title of each to see the full blog post. Crazy to think that I've written 192 posts this year alone! These are the "greatest hits" by page views...looks like clothing (remixes, budgets and weekly "what I wore to work") and DIY projects take the cake, along with one of my favorite places ever...Target. #10- What I Wore to Work: Week #2 #9- Wantable Accessories Read More
2013 in Review: DIY Projects
I thought it would be fun to do a recap on all the DIY projects the hubs and I did this year. As it turns out, we did 12 projects this year- WOW! (Actually, there are 1 or 2 that were blogged in 2013, but were finished in 2012 if you want to get technical.) Kinda crazy when I look back at it now! Cue the “12 Days of Christmas” song… ”On the first day of Christmas, my handy husband made for meeeee...” Ok, I’ll just stop while I’m ahead. But you get the idea. Click on the title of each Read More
Chaos to Order
I thrive on being organized. I’m the type that needs to have a clean workspace before I can work, otherwise I’m distracted. I am in love with the Container Store and think that if I made a career change, I’d love to be a professional organizer. But when it comes to our master bedroom closet, I knew it was something I wanted to tackle. It’s not terribly unorganized, but plastic drawers and cubes just weren’t working for us. My long dresses were starting to invade the left closet, which Read More
DIY Custom Chandelier with Mason Jars
So since my husband and I are clearly on a DIY chandelier kick after making our foyer chandelier…we figured we'd go for another one! For a while now, my husband and I have been wanting to replace our standard dining room chandelier with something that wasn’t as traditional. We searched at stores and everything was either a “cookie cutter” design or was super expensive. So…we took to the internets—Pinterest that is. I found this photo and knew we had to try to replicate it! (Problem Read More
