Recently our home has been undergoing some major renovations and although they're not finished I am beginning to see the hard work paying off. We renovated our kitchen/living room cabinetry and counters to bring it forward from the 1970's into what I feel is a light, clean look. With the Christmas season almost upon us, when Home Depot gave me the challenge to choose an area of our home to decorate I chose the dining room as it's one of the spaces where we spend the most time. For this ...
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Turn a Pendant Light into a Christmas Chandelier DIY
In our dining room, we have a pendant light which I really dislike. We have it on the HUGE list of things to replace/upgrade in our home but for now I'm living with it. It's a basic pendant light and does its job so it's not at the top of the list just yet. With Christmas coming, I was recently decorating our dining room and was faced with the challenge of creating something beautiful out of the light. The overall feel of the dining room was a cozy, country Christmas so I tuned to nature to find ...
How to Use Clay Paint to Refinish Furniture
If you're like me, you probably have some furniture in your home that you just wish you could afford to replace. As time has gone on, not all of our pieces suit our style anymore and recently I researched different methods to refinish furniture because frankly we don't have the money to replace everything I would like to. The piece I wanted to change first is our dining room table, we bought it from my cousin years ago. It is a harvest table and the legs were a forest green milk dip which means ...
Decorating a Thanksgiving Table
It's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada which has me once again feeling #ThankFall for all of the blessings I have. The first on my list is my family. I come from a long line of wonderful folks, 23 of whom will gather this weekend to spend time together and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. The majority of my family is in England but the Canadian contingent does a fine job of representing! As the weekend begins, I am reminded by simply looking around how wonderful life really is. Each and every day ...
7 Beautiful Handmade Wreaths for Fall
This week I shared my first efforts at decorating for Fall with my Simple, Inexpensive Wreath Tutorial and now I'm EXCITED to share 6 more wreath ideas with you all. Each and every one of these Fall wreaths are lovely and have been created by some awesome bloggers who always bring forward fantastic ideas. There is no end to what we can create with just a bit of thought, never be afraid to try to get crafty...believe me when I say it didn't come naturally to me! After following tutorials, I ...