Looking for a quick DIY alternative to wall mounted curtain rod brackets? Look no further! This quick tutorial is different, crafty, creative, resourceful and inexpensive. All you need: An old leather belt Scissors A needle and thread Drywall screw anchors Screws A drill Step 1 Take the buckle off the belt and cut the leather … More How to Hang a Curtain Rod Without Brackets
If you want to bring some character to a wall then I highly recommend this easy DIY Grid Board and Batten tutorial. There are lots of these tutorials out there, but I want to break it down really simply. It’s not as hard as you may think and can be done quite inexpensively! Especially if … More Simple and Affordable DIY Grid Pattern Board and Batten
A couple of months ago I wrote about how we’re trying to make our house a home. We’ve been in our home for nearly 5 years now but I was a 23 year-old expectant mother when we bought it and since we didn’t have much money to beautify the place we furnished it with hand-me … More Budget Room Refresh Challenge
Fun Fact about me: I am a very goal-oriented person. I love setting a goal, making a plan to achieve it and executing that plan until I find success! It’s something I’ve been doing for a while. I developed my first 5 year plan in Grade 8, as I spent hours going through the course … More 2020 Goal Digger
Do you ever just get the urge to paint your brick fireplace at 9:47PM? No? That’s just me? Oh, okay cool. Well I guess that’s just one example of how I’ve opted to sacrifice my sleep for the sake of home improvement. I love a good Before and After. And I have no regrets! In … More Making Our House A Home
The saying usually goes, “Pumpkin spice and everything nice,” but sometimes not everything goes exactly according to the recipe or plan. You see, I had purchased some little pumpkins as decor for our Thanksgiving table, with no intention of cooking them up, but once Halloween had passed I didn’t want them to go to waste. … More Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Enough
Here’s my daily struggle. HAPPY KIDS, ENOUGH SLEEP, TIDY HOUSE. Which two do you pick? It seems like having all three is impossible these days. I can have HAPPY KIDS and ENOUGH SLEEP but then my house is a mess. I can have HAPPY KIDS and a TIDY HOUSE but then my sleep takes a … More Daily Struggle to Juggle It All
It has been my husband’s dream to host Thanksgiving dinner since we bought our house just over 4 years ago. Actually, probably long before that even. We both come from large families who love being all together during holidays. This means the gatherings can be pretty big with 9 adults in my immediate family and … More How We Managed to Host Two Thanksgiving Dinners Back to Back
It’s been over 5 years now since my first miscarriage. We had only been married for a month and a half when we found out I was pregnant. We basically conceived on the honeymoon. It definitely was way sooner than we expected but once we saw those two lines on the pregnancy test we were … More My Miscarriage Stories
I wrote the poem below for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day in 2018 about my first experience of pregnancy loss in 2015. I’ll never forget the momentI stepped inside my parents’ houseI had just been released from the hospitalStill feeling contractionsFeeling the pregnancy slip awayOur baby was goneAnd my siblings, all of them,had dropped … More When A Loved One Loses Their Little One
The Dappled Willow 