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  • About
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    • Colonial Farmhouse
    • Crafts
    • Decorating
    • DIY Projects
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    Functional and Pretty Utility Room Organization

    June 1, 2026 /

    Raise your hand if you have enough closets and storage in your house. You can’t see me, but I’m NOT raising my hand. If you’re in a similar situation, this means we get to activate creative mode to solve this problem! There’s no button to activate creative mode (I checked), but I can open the creaky door to our utility room to share some functional and pretty utility room organization ideas with you. If you’ve been reading this website for a long time, thank you! But you might be wondering where our utility room is since I’ve never once uttered those words. It’s our back porch. In a recent moment…

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    How to Make Beautiful Pebble Flower Art (Easy DIY Pebble Art Flower Tutorial)

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    Empty those pebbles from your pockets! Today, I’m going to show you how to DIY Pebble Flower Art. This is so easy to make, and no two will look the same. That’s the beauty of this craft. Someone has to state the obvious, so it might as well be me… Pebbles can be used to make various shapes. In the case of this art, the shape is a flower, but you can make animals, people, words, etc. The only limit is your patience and imagination. You’re seeing the limit of both of mine in this craft!  That’s okay, though, because I’m smitten with how it turned out. What you need…

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    May 18, 2026 /

    Art takes on many forms, and it will not surprise you, given our recent stone masonry work, that we find stones and rocks make for fantastic gift and craft ideas. Paintings, jewelry, and home decor – these are just the tip of the boulder when it comes to all of the artful stone gift and craft ideas that now exist. People are so creative, and I’m here for it. If you’re looking for a gift or for your next craft, check out these 12 stone and gift craft ideas. Custom Painted Rock | Etsy I can think of a few pictures I’d love to see translated into paint on stone.…

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    What Jollifiers Do You Have In Your Home?

    April 29, 2026 /

    “What jollifiers do you have in your home?” Joanna Goddard recently asked on her site, A Cup of Jo. Oh, my heart! That word! Jollifiers. It’s so fun, and should definitely be added to our daily lexicon. Jollifiers, as defined by Goddard, are small objects around your home that bring you joy or make you smile when you see them. I’ve been thinking about what jollifiers I have around my home. I’m at the stage of life where I’m getting pickier and pickier about what I bring into my home, so I have a baseline affection for almost everything here. Ha! However, if you forced me to choose, here are…

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    Colorful Attic Stairwell

    April 13, 2026 /

    Last year, I gave a much-needed makeover to our attic stairwell. It went from looking like the backdrop of a horror movie to a bright, colorful attic stairwell that could be the setting of a meet-cute in a delightfully witty romcom. Or so I imagine. It took six years to get around to making over this tiny space, but not because we didn’t care. We did! Cross my heart, and hope to DIY. But you know how it goes. When you beg a bank to give you money to buy a fixer-upper with a leaky roof and rotting siding, the attic stairwell that’s hidden behind a door bumps to the…

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    March 16, 2026 /

    Did you know mini wood eggs for Easter are a thing? Dare I say, the greatest thing? Well, you do now! Today’s project, a DIY Wood Pedestal With Mini Egg Trim, was a thrifted find that I made over for Easter, using mini wood eggs for a festive trim detail. Click here to jump to the supply list. Click here to jump to the project directions. There was nothing wrong with the wood pedestal when I spotted it on the ubiquitous dusty thrift store shelf, especially not for the price. It was $6. But I had a makeover idea hatching in my brain, and I couldn’t rest until I knew…

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    March 9, 2026 /

    St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, which means symbols of good luck are top-of-mind right now. I don’t know about you, but I’ll take all the good luck I can muster these days, so I’ve rounded up 7 lucky horseshoe decor ideas for your home. This isn’t a new theme for me. I decorated a good luck horseshoe ten years ago that I still love and hang in our house. You can get the easy directions for that here. Here are the 7 lucky horseshoe decor ideas for your home. You can buy these, of course, but some of them would be easy enough to replicate on your own! My…

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    Who says a wreath has to be round besides the dictionary? No one in this house! I decided my vintage wood berry carrier would be an excellent ‘vessel’ to refresh my mantel for spring. Making this repurposed Berry Crate Spring Wreath also refreshed my soul a little as I’m slogging my way through another winter storm. I’m ready for spring. The calendar doesn’t care. What is a berry crate? A berry crate, berry basket crate, berry field flat, or berry basket carrier is used by berry pickers to hold individual berry baskets full of berries. They use these as a carrier to shuttle their individual berry baskets to a check-in…

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    There’s a certain thrill to driving down the road and spotting free stuff sitting on the side of the road. I gave one such recent roadside find, an upholstered stool, a makeover with a sentimental twist. Of course, because this is me and I have a penchant for making things unnecessarily difficult, I didn’t spot the upholstered stool while driving by. I spotted the stool while out on a walk, and then proceeded to carry it a mile home. My neighbors probably think… Well, I don’t even want to speculate. But, hey. You have to carpe diem the roadside find when you spot it, or it might not be there…

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    I overwinter many of my porch plants (ferns, geraniums, petunias) on our sunporch, and don’t have a great way of displaying the plants that makes it easy to care for them and looks aesthetically pleasing. First world problem, I know. My Current Plant Display Setup: The plants do seem to like it out here, and the photo below shows the best my current sunporch plant display has ever looked this winter. I have a couple of boards perched on top of a seed table that we don’t use for starting seeds. Because of these boards, I can rest three plants on top of the table, so I guess we do…

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