Chalk painting is an easy, affordable and fun way to transform furniture at home. And yes, you can chalk paint fabric as well. In this post, I’m going to show you the transformation of stained worn antique chairs into dramatic beautiful statement pieces. Refinishing furniture can add to the beauty and aesthetics of your home,…
Author: Kaitlyn
The Fastest and Easiest Way to Paint Chairs
Paint is one of the easiest and fastest ways to makeover furniture. I love a good painting job, and feel invincible after a good complete painting project. Sometimes though, painting can be tedious and take longer than desired. This is especially true if there are legs, spindles and lots of curves on your piece. Painting…
The Easy Summer Schedule To Keep Kids Busy
Summer is here, school is out and that means, we have to figure out what to do with the kids all day! If this leaves you feeling a little lost on how to keep the kids from constantly saying, “I’m bored” while trying to minimize screen time, I’ve got you covered. While the beauty of…
How To Do A Summer Reading Challenge Bingo
But what do you do when they start out growing the library’s challenges or they don’t want to go to the local library? You do a summer reading challenge bingo!
5 Small Inexpensive Things You Can Do To Improve Your Home’s Aesthetics
When it comes to making your house a home, there are many small inexpensive things you can do to improve your home’s aesthetics. Design shows, designer blogs, Instagram, and Pinterest love to show the beautiful perfect homes, the high dollar reno’s, the diy projects that take a good chunk of skill, money, labor or all…
What I’m Doing Get The Yard And Garden Ready For Spring
Hi Friends! Today I’m going to share with you what I’m doing now to get my yard and garden ready for spring. Spring is just around the corner and here in rural Pennsylvania Mother Nature is teasing us with the occasional 60 degree day in between the 40 degree days and 20 degree nights. With the…
My Work From Home Mom Routine
Here’s what it looks like to run a business from home, with a baby and three stepkids.
Five Simple Ways To Go Green
Feeling like we need to be perfect to have a positive impact does no one any good. We don’t need a small handful of people being nearly perfect with no impact or a low impact on the environment. What we need is a lot of people doing 10% better with their environmental impact.
Old Fashioned Skills to Begin Cultivating
Cultivating old fashioned skills is slowly gaining traction. As the home making, homesteading movement grows, and the world gets crazier, people desire to become more self-reliant. When you have some of these old fashioned skills you can save yourself money, reduce waste and goodness knows our world is over polluted with stuff. Cultivating old fashioned…
The Old Fashioned Art of ‘Making Do’
Let’s talk about the art of making with what you have, and what this is exactly. Older generations were experts at ‘making do & mend.’ They didn’t just throw something away because a button fell off, a seam came undone or something wasn’t working all of a sudden.