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Tutorial: How to Plan a Gallery Wall

Finding Home — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:00:30 +0000

When I put together the gallery wall in my guest bedroom, I kind of just went for it. But, when I put together the wall in my kitchen, there were several conditions that required it to have a little more planning – a limited defined space and two things that needed to be in a [...]

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Faux Taxidermy Christmas Ornaments

Finding Home — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:00:56 +0000

Okay, I will admit it, this is totally “out of the box” for me. In fact, I am having palpitations writing this post right now! But when Dean and Shannon of AKA Design invited me to be part of a Christmas Decorating blog hop – I wanted to do something different. I think this fits [...]

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Roasting Tomatoes & Thankful for 2 Years of Blogging

Finding Home — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:23:48 +0000

This week marks two years that I have had the gift of being here in the blog world. In many ways, that first week of September two years ago was the same as this first week. We ran our annual 5K race. We had the first day of school. Sunshine had a few bumps getting [...]

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Vintage Wicker Chandelier Tutorial

Finding Home — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:29:30 +0000

I shared with you earlier this week our screened porch as part of Takin’ It Outside Week. Today, I thought I would share with you how I put together the chandelier. First, I was lucky to find this enormous wicker shade at a vintage shop locally. However, I think a wicker basket or bowl could [...]

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Baseball Bat Flag Tutorial

Finding Home — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:46:15 +0000

Thank you so much for all of the kind feedback on our summer mantel – it was a fun project to put together. As I said I would, today I am sharing a tutorial of how we put together the baseball bat flag. We obviously started with the bats. I bought then at an auction [...]

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Spring in Paris Painting

Finding Home — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:21:35 +0000

I have been wanting to tackle a painting for some time and the other day I shared how I “picked up my brush” and tried my hand at painting. I wanted to have something fun and bright this Spring, that reminded me of our trip to Paris. The original plan was to add it to [...]

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Embroidered Valentine

Finding Home — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:31:33 +0000

So far I have shared two Valentine projects that can be found here and here. Today, I want to share a new one. I guess I have been on a bit of an embroidery kick this week. First, I shared my love for a towel that was embroidered and then I shared a beautiful vintage [...]

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Crayon Watercolor

Finding Home — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:10:42 +0000

Last week I shared a project I did with my daughters, a Crayon Valentine, this week I am sharing a new Valentine project. We used essentially the same techniques as the Crayon Valentine. After we finished that project, we had another idea. We loved so much how the color ran that we thought we would [...]

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Photoshop Elements & Christmas

Finding Home — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:18:28 +0000

Over the last several months, I have been trying to improve my photo editing skills. I was gifted Photoshop Elements 7 some time ago, but I had always been very intimidated by it. A few months ago, I decided it was time to finally figure the darn thing out. So, I turned to Pinterest and [...]

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How to Frankenstein a Bed

Finding Home — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:43:28 +0000

Last week I shared my daughter’s finished bedroom. You can go here to read that full post. Today I am going to share with you how we made the bed – and I am not going to lie, this is a long one! (and for those of you have asked, I will be posting the [...]

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