Nursery

  • Little Tikes Play Kitchen Makeover Before and After

    Little Tikes Play Kitchen Make Over for Boys

    Last year my niece got a darling little play kitchen for her birthday.  The thought of a play kitchen had never crossed my mind until we were visiting and my oldest son became quite enamored with it.  He began asking to go to her house and play kitchen!  A few weeks before his birthday we…

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  • Vintage DIY Guest Room

    There is something about guest rooms that I honestly love. At my core I’m a hostess and I love when people come to visit.  Growing up we never had an official guest room so when we bought our first house I was over the moon excited when we had a third bedroom that we were…

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  • Happy Grey, Green and Aqua Nursery

    My oldest son is about to turn 7.  SEVEN.  I can’t even begin to wrap my head around that.  In my mind he’s still brand new and we are still learning how to be parents.  (Ok, let’s be real, he may be almost seven but we are still learning how to be parents.  I’m not…

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    YOUR BORING HOUSE IS AWESOME (EASY WAYS TO MAKE ANY HOUSE SPECIAL)

    After purchasing our first house I found myself lamenting that we hadn’t gone for something with more character. That we had bought a less boring house.  Our home was the largest we could afford on our barely-adult salaries.  The house had interesting things about it and it certainly ended up being something we loved in…

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    Cloth Diapering 101: How to use cloth diapers (And how to clean cloth diapers!)

    In the last few months I’ve been asked by a handful of mama’s and mama’s-to-be my thoughts on how to use cloth diapers (and the real question – how to clean cloth diapers). After typing it out a few times I thought I’d make it into a proper blog post so I could send it…

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  • How to stage a small bedroom for sale

    TINY NURSERY REVEAL AND HOW TO DIY A SLIDE OUT CHANGING TABLE

    Our old house had 3 bedrooms, with the smallest of the bedrooms measuring in at just 9×11 – teeny!  Until our youngest son was born this was used as a guest room.  We always kept a full size bed and dresser in the room.  There wasn’t a lot of walking around room but it served…

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