WE DID IT!!!  Some how, some way!  In the midst of a pandemic and (hopefully!) a huge global shift towards ending racism, our family managed to pull together and finish a room from top to bottom in 8 weeks and complete the Better Homes and Gardens ONE ROOM CH...

You guys!!  We are so close to the end of our first official BHG One Room Challenge and things are totally coming together!  I feel like this was such a learning curve - and I also feel like I am so much more prepared on how I want to approach our next challenge; from...

Here we are at week 6 of the Better Homes and Gardens One Room Challenge and what a week this has been.   I have struggled so hard this week with everything going on in the world, so the last several days I have allowed myself to feel all of those emotions and have jus...

We are officially HALF way through the Better Homes and Gardens One Room Challenge and I can't believe how much I am enjoying myself.  I am really grateful that we stuck with a smaller room for this first journey into the ORC, because I can easily see how it would have...

I can't believe we are already into Week 3 in our Better Homes and Garden's One Room Challenge!  It has been so much fun to really focus on the girls' bathroom and put together the details - my favorite part!!

All of the elements have really been coming togeth...

I am all sorts of excited to be a guest participant in the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge.  We have been making quite a bit of progress in the inside of our house and on the back patio...so much so that we are down to needing the floors put in before we can go any fart...

The next two weeks are going to be rough ones; and because I have young kids and I want them to remember these days as happy and full of special times together, I made a promise to myself to do the only thing within my control; stay home, and to keep our days filled wi...

You know, word around the street is that it takes thirty days in a row of doing something to truly make it a habit . . .or thirty days of NOT doing something to break it.  And the best way you have to hold yourself accountable is a physical way to chart your progress....

As much as we love our new home, there are a few too many rooms (I promise a tour is coming soon!!) with wallpaper that was probably beautiful in its prime, but just is way too dated now.  In fact, I am absolutely in love with the big floral patterns that grace all of...

Ever since I have been a child, I have always appreciated the art of a prettily wrapped present; the bows, the crisp paper, and just a touch of something unique that will make your recipient smile.  A thoughtfully covered gift is almost like an invitation before a part...