I've spent the last week doing some organization projects that I've been putting off for the last few months. We've all been there right? You're busy doing a project and other areas tend to get a little neglected (ok, a lot neglected). Our garage was especially bad! Putting supplies away on our work table in a pile again and again after a project added up to a big disorganized mess! So I thought I would put together a list of all the areas I'm planning to organize over the ne

Last March we did a budget friendly kitchen refresh that took our kitchen from this... to this. I knew going into this project that it was going to be a very budget conscious makeover and I tried to make decisions along the way to keep us in check. My goal was to spend under $2,000, but when it was all said and done I never tallied it all up! Do you think I managed to stay under that? Let's see how it actually shook out shall we? I'm going to break it up into two categories-

Last week the kids and I tackled my four day at home summer camp and we had a lot of fun! I thought I would give a run down as to just how our summer camp went and what I might do to change things up next summer. Things that went well: - Overall, my favorite activities were the make your own forky, water balloon fight, ice block smash, homemade ice cream, kindness rocks, slime, and cotton candy. - My kid's favorite activities were cotton candy, kindness rocks, slime, and spin

A few weeks ago we finished our backyard makeover, but I never got into the nitty gritty of how the string lights came to be! It was Kris' idea to add string lights to our backyard. He had been petitioning for this project for years, so when I was formulating the plans for the backyard I knew that string lights needed to happen. But I also didn't really know how they would attach or where they would go...I thought maybe tying them into our tall ligustrum bushes might be a goo

Last week I revealed our dining room for the Spring One Room Challenge! Today I wanted to go into a bit more detail about all of our place settings and tabletop items- I did all of my shopping for the tabletop on Birch Lane and they had everything I needed!! I absolutely love collecting antique blue china, but finding a perfect set of enough pieces to set an entire table with would have taken me years to collect... The fact that Birch Lane has full sets of this Italian blue d