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  • Cooking

    Sweet Southern Sun Tea

    7:42 PM - By 

    Hon­est­ly I don’t remem­ber hav­ing a whole lot­ta sun tea grow­ing up. In fact, it was a on going joke that my mom could­n’t make good tea. She always seemed to scald it on the stove and it had a burnt taste. She was even gift­ed a fan­cy tea mak­er one year for Christ­mas which did help.…buuuut when it quit work­ing she all but quit mak­ing tea.  I start­ed mak­ing tea again about 7 years ago when Josh and I were first mar­ried. Tea for this gal is best served cold and sweeeet. South­ern style I guess you could say. And…

  • DIY Projects

    Decorating from the Pantry

    6:56 PM - By 

    Being stuck at home real­ly makes you eval­u­ate the things you have right in front of you. Your decor for exam­ple. Maybe all this extra time at home has brought your atten­tion to areas of your home that could use a refresh. Sure you could do a lit­tle online shop­ping to pass the time, but how about we raid our kitchen cab­i­nets for FOOD…yes food, but were not eat­ing it, we’re dec­o­rat­ing with it! Enjoy this col­lec­tion of cre­ative ways to use pantry items in your decor!  To kick off our col­lec­tion is this amaz­ing dis­play of glass jars, can­dles, lentils,…

  • DIY Projects

    Easy Ink Transfer Using Parchment Paper

    7:57 PM - By 

    I have always want­ed to try my hand at trans­fer­ing images via wax or parch­ment paper. All I had on had was parch­ment so thats what I used and I am pleased with the result. Was is per­fect? No, but for the the look I want­ed per­fec­tion did­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mat­ter. I am not claim­ing this is THE best way to trans­fer images, I am sim­ply shar­ing what I did to achieve this look. I start­ed with a piece of parch­ment paper I cut just small­er than the size of a piece of card­stock and taped them together. Next, I print­ed this…

  • Decor - DIY Projects

    5 Repurposed Kitchen Island Tutorials

    1:50 PM - By 

    When I was toss­ing around ideas for cre­at­ing a kitchen island, I knew with­out a doubt that I want­ed to repur­pose SOMETHING, but I wan’t too sure on what. Of course, if you fol­low the blog, then you already know we decid­ed on the dress­er in the image below. I am super pleased with how this piece turned out. But y’all, if I had a place in my house for more than one repur­posed island, you betcha I would have these in this collection. I just sim­ply want­ed to gath­er them for you, and unfold my thought process behind my…

  • Decor

    Thrifty Spring Decor for Your Mantle

    7:18 PM - By 

    Recent­ly, I made a trip to one of my favorite thrift shoppes in town on a mis­sion to gath­er a few bud­get-friend­ly items for my Spring man­tle. I did­n’t want to go all out Easter‑y with bright eggs and bun­nies but did want a taste­ful yet fresh look to my space. After brows­ing the store for about 30 min­utes, which must have been a new record for me, I had a col­lec­tion of vin­tage prints, old bas­kets, books and some faux euclyp­tus stems. I also bought a old chip­py bird­cage and a sofa table, but that’s a whole dif­fer­ent thing.…

  • DIY Projects

    Easy Vintage Stamped Lamp Shade

    2:28 AM - By 

    This DIY has got to be one of the eas­i­est cre­ations I have made in a while. It took me all of 5 min­utes, maybe less to com­plete this DIY. It all start­ed with a plain lamp shade, stamps and a love for all things vin­tage. If you have these three things handy then you too can reacre­ate this look. What you’ll need: This post con­tains affil­i­ate links. Ink Pad Stamps Lamp Shade Mod Podge is optional  Sim­ply take your stamp, press it into the ink and stamp away! That is it! If you are want­i­ng this vin­tage-type look, I advise you…

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    DIY Projects - Kitchen

    How to Repurpose a Dresser into A Kitchen Island

    12:19 AM - By 

    This dream of hav­ing a kitchen island start­ed with a dress­er we found at a local resale shop. It was a bit taller than your stan­dard dress­er and made the per­fect height for an island, and thus, the dress­er to island con­ver­sion project was born. If you’re look­ing to start a upcyled project that will look amaz­ing in your home, this would be an amaz­ing place to start. It’t the per­fect blend of rus­tic and beau­ti­ful. Don’t take my word for it, see for yourself. Where to Start If you’re look­i­ung for the per­fect piece of fur­ni­ture to flip upcy­cled into a…

  • DIY Projects

    How to Layer Stain Like a Pro

    8:09 PM - By 

    Learn how to give new wood a beau­ti­ful nat­u­ral­ly aged look with the stain lay­er­ing tech­nique An easy DIY method for using stain to achieve an old look. The goal here was to make this wood look aged and pre­vi­ous­ly loved. In this case, a since shade of stain was­n’t gonna cut it. I decid­ed on using a tech­nique I am unof­fi­cial­ly nam­ing stain lay­er­ing. To be truth I don’t know if this is techini­cal­ly a tech­nique but it’s what I came up with and I must say I hap­py with the results. These are the shades I used:  Min­wax Weath­ered Oak 270…

  • Decor - Decor + Styling

    Spring Gnome Inspiration from Etsy

    12:35 PM - By 

    Browse a col­lec­tion of adorable SPRING GNOMES from Etsy. I did­n’t real­ize how dif­fi­cult it is to find actu­al DIY tuto­ri­als for these cute lit­tle cre­ations until I went on the hunt. Click­ing on these images and links will redi­rect you to an Etsy shop. Even still, I hope this col­lec­tion leaves you inspired and excit­ed to take a shot at recre­at­ing some of these for your self! How­ev­er, you are look­ing for tuto­ri­als I have a sep­a­rate Christ­mas Col­lec­tion for that. LOOKING FOR DIY TUTORIALS? CLICK HERE KEEP SCROLLING FOR SPRING INSPIRATION -DON’T FORGET ME- PIN FOR LATER