We swapped Daniel’s office and the guest room last summer. I fixed up the new guest room right away, but I wasn’t inspired to do anything with Daniel’s home office until recently. I’m sure you’ve seen those big black and white (cheap!) engineering prints from Staples all over the internet lately. I got it in [...]
Would you believe I’ve never done a DIY ornament post? So weird! This is an easy one, and it would make a cute gift. All you need is a boring ornament you want to monogram-ize, puffy paint, and spray paint. If you choose a matte finish ornament like I did, you can draw your design straight [...]
A while back I made my own suet cakes for our backyard birds, and they absolutely loved them. I have never seen so many birds in our yard before—it was like The Birds but in a good way. When I ran out of homemade and refilled the feeder with store bought suet, the birds didn’t [...]
Tonight I’m hosting a girls’ night for a bunch of friends. I’m making a few of my favorite fall recipes including this spiced cider, these gingersnap cookies, and my mom’s homemade chex mix. I’m trying out this caramel-in-a-can recipe to pair with apple slices, and I can’t forget a veggie tray to balance out all [...]
Lately we’ve had a lot of rain around here, and all sorts of wild looking mushrooms have been popping up. Since one of my terrariums recently suffered a casualty, I decided to make some little mushrooms to fill the void. Supplies: oven bake-able polymer clay sturdy wire cut into 3″–4″ lengths (make sure it isn’t [...]
Someone special is turning 4 today—Mabel! Oliver’s 6th birthday is in a few weeks, so I made them little crowns (from toilet paper tubes, spray paint, and twine) to celebrate the occasion. They seemed to think the crowns were some kind of weird punishment, but since I bribed them with treats they let me snap [...]
I’ve been longing for a different coffee table for a while. I couldn’t find one that I liked available for sale anywhere, but I knew exactly what I wanted. Luckily my dad has major woodworking skills and a garage full of tools! I drew a sketch of what I had in mind, and last Saturday [...]
Last week my friends and I threw a tea party baby shower at my house for our friend Laura. I wanted to decorate with doilies since they seem tea party-ish, so I dyed some of the doilies with coffee to give them an antiqued look and folded them over yarn to make doily bunting banners. Don’t [...]
I ran out of blank pages in my sketchbook, so I picked up a new one today. In college I had a professor who required us to decorate our sketchbook covers, and I’m going to start doing that again. Since I’ve had Danni’s washi tape notebook in the back of my mind for a while, [...]
Do you remember the chalkboard mug and chalkboard platter I made last year with Pébéo’s porcelain chalkboard paint? Well, the folks at Pébéo got in touch with me. They kindly sent me 3 bottles of their Porcelaine 150 chalkboard paint to share with you lucky people! This is super special paint. It’s not regular chalkboard paint, and [...]