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Getting Back to Etsy & Creating
Wow, the month of November seems to be slipping right through my hands. I think this month always seems to go this way, which is a bit sad since this is my favorite time of year. It’s that cozy time before it gets too too cold, the leaves still have some color and are covering everything, and the holiday spirit is sprinkling in before the big “rush” to shop for Christmas. But, this season, I decided to change things up for myself and started spending time getting back to creating and listing items in my Etsy shop. And I have some exciting news about a new Etsy shop that I…
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Vintage Valentine’s Day Mantel {blog rewind}
Happy February! With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, I wanted to share an oldie but a goody (at least in my humble opinion!). We are going back to 2014 when I decorated our vintage mantel for the holiday of love. I didn’t buy anything new for this vintage inspired mantel vignette. I simply shopped my home and thought outside of the box. Back to Blogging Illness has been rampant in our home for the past few months. We’ve had the flu, stomach viruses and lots of colds pass through. Even poor little Fletcher caught RSV just before he turned three months. It has been a rough winter. I hope the groundhog…
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Christmas in the Dollhouse
It’s never too late for a holiday home tour in miniature is it? I spent a lot of time getting our dollhouse “just right” for the holidays, but never got around to photographing it till now. I hope you enjoy the tour even though it comes a bit after the holiday season! Our dollhouse has been a work in progress for a couple of years, and still has some rooms that aren’t finished, but I hope to get to work on those as soon as time allows. And we have fun playing with and decorating it no matter how far along we are in the miniature renovation! This post contains…
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DIY Countdown to Valentine’s Day
For the past few years, I have made an advent calendar for my children for Christmas. Each year, it has been a little bit different than the one before. They love it so much, that this year, I decided to do one for Valentine’s Day as well. I know I am a bit late in getting this post out there, but I wanted to share it with you anyways in case it might spark some last minute inspiration! This post contains some affiliate links. I may receive a small commission for any sales made through them. For this project, I decided to make handmade paper ornaments to celebrate the holiday…
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5 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues (at Home)
Does the time after the holiday season ever get you feeling blue? It does for me. It’s like the bottom falls out after New Year’s and I just don’t know what to do with myself. I miss the music on the radio, the movies on TV, the lights around town. All of the decorations, the magic, the wonder of Christmas is suddenly gone. And we are stuck knee deep in the thick of winter and the long, gray days of…………blah. Well, maybe it’s just because I live outside of Rochester, NY where the sky doesn’t turn blue again until late spring and the snow has been known to stick around through…
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Holiday Home 2017
It’s a little late to share a holiday home tour, I know, but better late than never right? My focus the past few Christmases has been on making our home cozy, inviting and festive to create lasting memories for my little ones. Which meant this year, I was going to take the pressure off getting the house camera ready for a holiday home tour post. I signed up for one, but ended up backing out when I knew it was just going to add stress. So here we are…the first week of January and you get to see how I did up our home for the holidays! Haha. I can’t…
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