Maybe it’s the writer in me but I’ve always loved seeing inside other people’s homes. Even as a little kid, I’d peek around my friends’ moms, who’d answer the door with a dishtowel draped over their shoulder or have a younger child perched on their hip with one arm holding
This year has been…challenging. On New Year’s Eve, we sat around my grandma’s bedside. Just after Christmas, she fell asleep and woke only to say things that made no sense. She didn’t recognize Mom or me. She only knew Eli, who was six-months-old at the time and like a child,
Oh my, friends. I have gone and started way too many projects at once. During cold and flu season. Right before the holidays. With a one and four-year-old in the house! What was I thinking?! I wasn’t. I was all hopped up on Fixer Upper reruns I watched while I
This time last year, I was sitting on the floor nursing a fussy newborn, hot gluing strips of drop cloth to the bottom of Ikea dishtowels to make my own cafe curtains for the kitchen. I was on empty in every sense of the word; no time, no sleep, no
It’s been two years since I chalk painted our kitchen cabinets. Here’s the top 10 questions I get about my chalk painted kitchen cabinets: 1. What did you use? Originally, I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White on the uppers and Duck Egg Blue on the lower cabinets.
I am always flirting with the idea of taking the ceiling fans down to swap them out for pretty lighting. Light fixtures are my weakness. Jewelry…meh. A pretty chandelier…swoooooon. But then, I’m far too Southern-at-heart practical to remove a ceiling fan and I’m fairly confident that would be the nail