Welcome to the first Monthly DIY Challenge of 2017!! We are so excited to start another year of this challenge with you guys and have some exciting topics planned already. First up though was chalkboard this month! For some reason our neighborhood gets hit hard by salesmen and solicitors which is crazy frustrating…and scary. Of… Read More
Today is the December Monthly DIY Challenge!! The girls and I worked with felt this month and since it’s the holidays, we have some great gift ideas as well as little holiday touches! While wrapping presents definitely isn’t my fave, I do love decorating them once they are wrapped. The ribbon, bows, and decorative items are… Read More
I was really excited about this month’s Monthly DIY Challenge material, reclaimed wood, since that is by far my preferred medium to play with for DIYs and crafts. While I have a multitude of project ideas on the docket that use reclaimed wood, this one is near and dear…and super easy…so I definitely wanted to… Read More
Holy cow, it’s already halfway through October?! I’ve been out of town the last week but am going to be dusting off the ‘ol blog and getting back at it soon, sharing pics of my second trip to Magnolia Market(!) as well as my super late First Week Favorites, but today we’ll start with October’s Monthly… Read More
Monthly DIY Challenge time again!! This month we got to play with Mod Podge which somehow I have never used before, ever! I know, I pretty much should be banned from DIY/craft blogland for that. But after seeing what this miracle substance can do and how easy it is to work with, I’m sold and… Read More
I’m coming off a whirlwind five days at my second Haven Conference in Atlanta and am still dragging and in a daze. My mind is sooooo full of awesome information and inspiration and is swimming with all the memories of fun and quality time with old and new blogger friends alike. This virtual space is… Read More
It’s Monthly DIY Challenge day!! The girls and I teamed up with the Leather Hide Store this month to work with the classic home decor material, leather, and also have a fun giveaway for one lucky reader to win some leather for their own project! I’ve never worked with leather, other than making a leather… Read More
It’s Monthly DIY Challenge time!! This month the girls and I were super happy to partner with Royal Design Studio to give a little personality to something in our home with their stencils! From walls, to tile, to fabric, we thoroughly put these to the test! It took each of us DAYS to settle on which… Read More
It’s time for the Monthly DIY Challenge! This month we got to work with a material that most of us had never used before, air dry clay, and man did it test us! I was thisclose to making this a “How to not DIY your own faux coral” post, but I do think it can totally… Read More
So, wayyyyy back about six years ago, FINALLY finished my master’s thesis on research and surveys I conducted for some of our local sea fan species (genus Leptogorgia for anyone who’s interested…). While I wasted no time trashing all those journal articles and paperwork, something I got to keep around as a token of all that hard… Read More
