While fall was my favorite time of year growing up in north Texas, we never get much of one where we’re at now in south Texas. It doesn’t start to cool off until sometime in November then winter starts in January, and we have very few trees that change color other than brown. Nonetheless, I… 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 sorry to go a little MIA this week y’all! I just got super bogged down and overwhelmed with projects and had to take a little step back to try and regroup. Does it come in waves for anyone else?? It seems like I’ll totally be on top of things for a couple months,… Read More
When our friends at Wayfair brought up the idea of doing an update to one of our very first crafts, I knew IMMEDIATELY which one I wanted to tackle. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s always some oldies that aren’t so much goodies, but this is one that never quite sat right with me or… 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
Happy Leap Day friends! We had a beautiful weekend here and got our spring pruning done, got the garden planted, and knocked out a couple projects. #fistbump So obviously I have a bit of a weakness with wall hangings and driftwood, see Exhibit A, but I just couldn’t resist sharing this one that I made… Read More
I’ve been so excited about this day y’all!! I’ve joined the awesome ladies of the Monthly DIY Challenge this year and every second Wednesday of the month will be sharing a DIY project centered around our chosen topic. These are some of my blogging besties (like serious besties, we talk all day everyday…) and some… Read More
