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I have this thing with roosters

It all started on a trip to my local Value Village. I was on the hunt for a new sugar bowl that was big enough to hold a useful amount of sugar and interesting enough to not be boring. I was starting to feel like Goldilocks – This one’s too small! This one’s too floral!

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ORC Week 3: Painting our Kitchen Cabinet Doors

Well, we are halfway through the One Room Challenge and I’ve officially finished painting all the upper cabinet doors and have started on the lower doors and let me just say – this is taking F-O-R-E-V-E-R. Maybe some people can paint their cabinet doors in a weekend but I am absolutely not one of those

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ORC Week 2: Raising the Kitchen Cabinets

It’s week two of the One Room Challenge and we’ve made a lot of progress with our kitchen cabinets. First, we completely emptied the upper cabinets and moved everything into our dining room where we had set up some temporary shelves. I have a feeling this room will be out of commission for the next 5

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Kitchen Renovation - Before

One Room Challenge Week 1: Introducing our Kitchen!

When we bought our house we didn’t have a lot of money for upgrades, so we decided to put our money in the “big stuff” for our kitchen like granite countertops, tile flooring, pot drawers and taller than usual upper cabinets. Essentially we already have half our dream kitchen – I’m really excited to say that we’re

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Kitchen Makeover Inspiration

I have been daydreaming about our kitchen makeover since we moved in…maybe even since we bought the house from plans. Yes, we bought the house from plans and did not have the builder put in our dream kitchen. Why? One word: upgrades. Everything we wanted was an upgrade, and we were not working with a

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Master Bathroom Makeover Reveal

Our master bathroom makeover took forever.  You know what happened? The day after we ripped out our old vanity my father went in for a routine surgery and all hell broke loose. His recovery ended up taking 6 months instead of 6 days…so…not the best time to be in the middle of a bathroom reno.

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Deck Stained & Sealed

When we built our deck last year it was pretty late in the season so we decided to wait until this summer to put a water seal on the wood. Turns out it was the right decision because apparently you should let the wood “breathe” for a year before applying any sort of stain or

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Hand-Painted Yarn With Kool-Aid

I have been knitting for about 10 months now and I’ll admit it, I’m convert. It’s fun. And yarn, how can you not love all the pretty yarn out there?  You know what I do not love? The price of yarn. Especially all those amazing skeins that people painted by hand. I’m sure once I’ve

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Garage Makeover Distraction

Our master bathroom makeover is so close to being done – I just have to finish building my new towel ladder and some shelves (and you know, clean up all the tools and paint cans). But…I’ve become completely distracted by our garage that the ladder and shelves are on hold. What’s going on in the

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