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Log Cabin Home Tour: Kitchen & Dining Room
As I mentioned last week, I have been preparing a full log cabin home tour from our recent stay in the Adirondacks. Today, I am so excited to get it started with the kitchen and dining room! If you missed the personal side of the trip, you can check that out here. I will have follow up posts with tours of the living room, master bedroom and more, in the coming weeks so stay tuned. For now, come on in and enjoy a virtual tour of this dreamy log home’s kitchen and dining room… My mom was actually the one who found this rental cabin listed on vacationrentals.com. I have…
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Trip to the Adirondacks
Last week, we had the pleasure of going to the Adirondacks for a few days. It was the first time my husband and I had been there. We went with my mom, step-dad and uncle who had all been before. When my mom and uncle were little, my grandparents would take them up there since it was where my grandmother grew up. That made it even more special since both of my grandparents passed away earlier this year. It almost felt as if they were with us. Their memory definitely was. We stayed in a beautiful log cabin, which I will be sharing a full home tour of…in installments over…
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July Dining Room Mantel Vignette
It’s no secret that I like to change out my mantel decor…a lot. If you visit here regularly, your probably know this. Today, I am sharing how I just recently redid it for the month of July. I kept it fairly simple with a mixture of vintage and eclectic pieces, hints of black, potted succulents and fresh cut flowers from the yard. We bought this old mantel from a local salvage shop and gave it a makeover a couple of years ago. It used to have very chippy brown paint. It has lived in our dining room for the past several years. Sometimes, I want to move it back to the…
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Coastal Inspired Altered Bottles {Making Memories from the Sea}
With summer in full swing, many people are heading to beaches and lakes to get away, so today I am sharing a project to keep some of the memories alive from those trips, while adding a coastal touch to your decor. It only requires an old bottle, some embellishments and letting your creativity flow. You could embellish these bottles with nature collected along the shore, pieces saved from trips passed or items that remind you of a previous vacation. I made these “Ocean Relic” altered bottles, as I affectionately named them, for my online shop back in 2009. I shared a glimpse of them last week in a vignette I…
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A Cottage Style Summer Vignette {a look back to 2009}
Since I haven’t had a lot of time to decorate for summer lately (other than the small bit I did on our front porch recently), I thought I would share a vignette from our former townhouse that I set up the summer of 2009. Decorating was basically my life then. I lived for creating these vignettes. Not a whole lot of time (or space) for them these days…but it is still a passion. Life was sure easy back then. It is very different now and a lot harder in some ways, but I wouldn’t go back. I love spending my days with the little ones and even though that means…
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Eclectic Summer Porch
Even though our porch could use some improvements, I still enjoying changing out the decor season to season. I didn’t do much with it this past spring, since it has been very rainy, but here is how I dolled it up for summer, just in time for the 4th of July. I would ideally love to paint our siding gray and give the trim around the door a crisp coat of white. I’d also love to add some shutters and window boxes. At this point we aren’t sure how long we plan on staying here, since it is getting pretty cramped inside, so we have held off on doing any…
this creative life
