Nest – Bliss & Miscellaneous

Shark Bait

My baby is no longer a baby! And now that he’s “grown” we updated him to a big boy room. It started innocently enough, we moved his furniture to convert his crib into a headboard and I decided to touch up his paint which snowballed into me to painting his entire room a ...

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Create – Free Print

At my part-time job recently I’ve had the chance to spend a little more time designing and less time handling last minute emergencies and “throwing together” graphics with what I like to call my “magic art machine” (hint: although technology is getting ...

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Patriotic Prep – Our Festive Fourth Decor!

This weekend my family will be coming to visit for the Fourth of July. We’re so excited because my brother and sister-in-law are coming in for the holiday but the real the guest of honor is this little squishy cheeked boy. My boys are super excited to meet their West Coast cousin for the ...

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Outdoor Living – Ikea Applaro & A DIY Teepee

I recently posted about how the boys are ready for summer. I decided we needed to update our outdoor space as well. We have a deck and a patio but we really haven’t done much with them since we moved in. Now that we finished our basement it seems like we needed to make the patio a little ...

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Spring Decorating & DIY Fabric Butterflies

Only two more days till the first day of SPRING and we are more than ready for it after all this snow and cold wet weather. Evan is already asking about swimming so I put him to work decorating eggs for Easter. I found some fake craft eggs at Micheal’s so I could let him go without ...

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Family Wall Gallery Printables

If you follow me on instagram you know I recently replaced my gallery wall art. It was about time since it was all Christmas-themed. I still loved the black and white with the gold. I created this Fruit of the Spirit print. I’ve seen a lot of “Family Rules” artwork but I like ...

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The Trimmings

I shared our Christmas celebration but I here are some of my favorite pretty things from this past season. I realize this would have been more helpful if I’d posted it prior to the holiday but so much was done last minute thanks to all the major construction projects going on around ...

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Basement Update

Just a quick update on the basement progress (which means we’re actually making some). Construction started on the 1st of November. They framed out all our walls and the ceiling that day. We chose to lower the whole ceiling in the first room to avoid a weird soffit situation. ...

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S.O.S.

S.O.S. = Sad old sofa. Our living room sofa was actually the one I owned before we got married. And the years have not been so good to her (I assume sofas are female like ships, club chairs are male…obviously). The poor old gal is comfy and is a favorite bed for some visitors but ...

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Halloween Recap & The Next Big Thing

We celebrated Halloween this year with my in-laws, my neice and my mother…so six adults took two kids Trick-or-Treating. Noah got to be the lion by default since he can’t object to it and we already had it. He’ll probably be the lion again next year if it still fits him. I ...