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Revamp Your Home Without Adding to Your Anxiety

pink tray with candle, matchbox, and potted plant

Anyone else been thinking of revamping their homes? You too, huh? More than a year of mostly staying home has got us all looking around the rooms in our house in despair. Why is there so much clutter? Why does this table feel too big for this space? Why does this room feel so heavy? […]

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13 amazing furniture makeovers you have to see

This article was first published in Cromly. I’ve been talking to several people about refurbishing really old (and dilapidated) pieces of furniture lately, and even have some DIY projects waiting on the wings for me, so I decided to dig up this piece I wrote some time back (and even added several new items on the […]

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9 creative ways to make your own headboard

Hello! Well now wasn’t today’s onslaught of rain and wind (and hail in some parts of the metro, I hear!) something? I hope no one got hurt in this afternoon’s maelstrom, and that everyone’s home from the horrendous traffic that ensued. If you recall over the weekend, I posted about how I switched up the […]

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How to hang art

Hello! How’s your weekend going? Not as wet in our part of the metro anymore, but still with the occasional drizzle and sweater-weather feel. Today I’ll be talking about how to hang artwork. I know right, such a mundane thing to even blog about. But hear me out.

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My daughter's hobbit birthday party: Food and decor

(Scoot over here for the full post on preps for this DIY party!) Now I had enlisted the help of a lot of friends and family to decorate the venue and set up the party. But as I said before, my daughter’s birthday, while falling a couple days after Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ actual birthday, […]

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My daughter's hobbit birthday party: Preps

Since it’s Thursday, here’s a throwback post to when my hubby and I DIY-ed a hobbit birthday party for our daughter some eight months ago. Now let it be known to all that my husband and I are major Tolkien fans. I must admit that my Tolkienitis has lessened of late (you know, like the courtesy of Edoras Hall […]

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