We are slowly {so very slowly} making progress on Beckett's new room. We have all the furniture purchased, and Scott and I have hot Valentine's plans to assemble the bed and bookshelves tomorrow night. Don't be jealous! But there was been one area of the room plan that I had been procrastinating on - the closet. Sometimes I work best under a deadline, and that was the case this weekend. The annual Elfa sale at the Container Store was scheduled to end on Tuesday {but has now been extended to ... View the Post
I Love You Because… Dry Erase Love Note Printable
I love my husband for a million big reasons and a million small reasons. I constantly tell him that I love him, but I don't always tell him the specific things that I love about him. So, for Valentine's Day, I wanted to find a way to tell him all of the things that make him so special to me, and what better way than to leave him a love note every day?! This ever-changing love note is a Pinterest inspired project. I designed and framed the "I Love You Because..." print, and placed it ... View the Post
The Language of Flowers
My book club is one of my guilty pleasures! I love having an excuse to read a good book every month {and I love that my book club girls really read the books}! This month, we read Vanessa Diffenbaugh's The Language of Flowers, and beside being a moving story about a woman with a gift for flowers who is struggling to overcome her past, the book also inspired me to learn more about the meanings behind the flowers that we give and receive. With Valentine's Day just one week ... View the Post
Ombre Cupcakes – Perfect for Valentine’s Day
While my favorite colors are shades of blues and greens, my younger sister is a fan of anything red, pink or purple! To help her celebrate her birthday last week, I made her cupcakes with pink icing - three shades of pink icing to be exact. The ombre cupcakes turned out so pretty that I had to share them with you because they would also be perfect for Valentine's Day! I started by making two dozen strawberry flavored cupcakes, and I baked them in purple and pink polka dot cupcake papers. I've ... View the Post
Valentine’s Gift Bags and a Bag Topper Printable
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and I've been busy preparing gift bags for Beckett to give each of the kids in his preschool class. I started (as I often do) by searching around Pinterest for ideas, and as always I found lots of inspiration, but nothing was quite what I was looking for. I had a few requirements: no candy; something fun and age appropriate for 2 to 2.5 year olds; low budget; and, finally, something that Beckett could help to create. A few weeks ago while shopping ... View the Post
{shopping for style} Adorable Gift Sets For Only $4
I can't walk into Target without stopping to scope out the latest offerings in the Dollar Spot. I always manage to find something I "need," but this weekend I hit the jackpot, and I had to share my Dollar Spot find with you! It seems like I'm helping to host a lot of wedding and baby showers these days, and one of the biggest challenges for me is finding prizes to give the winners of the games without spending a lot of money. I like to give gifts that are practical and useful, but also ... View the Post
{organizing with style} A Filing System for Menus and Recipe Clippings
Does this ever happen to you... You are in the middle of a big project when some small pile of clutter catches your eye, and even though it's been that way for a long time, it suddenly seems imperative that you stop the big project you are working on to address it immediately. I call it Organization Procrastination. Or maybe Organization A.D.D. is a better way to describe it?! Well, that happened to me a while back. I was in the middle of a larger project in the kitchen, when all of ... View the Post
Sharing the Love with a Valentine’s Banner Printable
In the past we have never had any Valentine decorations around the house. Some years it seems like I can barely get the Christmas decorations down by the end of January, so putting up more decorations for February seemed like too much work. But ever since we added some bright pink accents in our living room, Valentine's Day has been calling my name. So this year I designed a cute banner to drape across a large painting that hangs in our entry/living room - pink of course! One of my ... View the Post
{entertaining with style} A Simple Elmo Cake & Basic Cake Decorating Tips
I pride myself on being pretty well rounded when it comes to the world of arts and crafts, but if there is one thing that I know almost nothing about, it's cake decorating. I'm not proud of this, especially considering that when I was little my mom was a professional cake decorator and taught cake decorating classes. Now that I have kids, I want to be able to create fun cakes for them like my mom did for my sister and I when we were little. So this year I asked my mom to help me create a simple ... View the Post
Chicken & Broccoli Pockets
I'm mixing things up on the blog today and doing something I've never done before. I wanted to share one of my favorite recipes which I have modified to make it perfect for entertaining. I served these delicious chicken and broccoli pockets at a baby shower brunch last weekend and received a lot of requests for the recipe. So here you are, ladies! Years ago, while flipping through a Pampered Chef cookbook, I came across a recipe that I just had to try. It includes a handful of my favorite ... View the Post
{decorating with style} Modern Metro with a Touch of Urban Funk
Last week, Ashley, at 7th House on the Left, blogged about how she used the Home Goods Stylescope Quiz to finally put a name to her personal style. I've taken a lot of these "what's you design style?" quizzes in the past and the results always seemed too generic, but after reading Ashley's post, I decided to head over to the Home Goods site and give Stylescope a try. And boy am I glad I did! The Stylescope quiz is quick and simple. You just pick the five photos that most appeal to you from a ... View the Post
{blog upgrades} Check Out the Updates
You know how sometimes you start working on what you intend to be a small project, and before you know it that small project has become a big project and you are wondering where the hours days have gone? Well, that's been the story here the last two days. I started to do some research on how to add a project gallery to the blog, and before I knew it I had not only added an extensive gallery, but also an entire set of new blog pages. Check out the new links at the top of the page, and you'll see ... View the Post
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