decorating/improvements

Make a List of Big Projects You Want to Do Around the House

I don’t know if you’re like us, but we have a tendency to think of all the ways we would spend money whenever we don’t have any extra. It seems like those are the times when we look around and say, “Hey — I wish we could do this or that.”  Conversely, whenever we would [...]

Our Homeschool Area

On this week’s Not Back to School Blog Hop, the theme is your homeschooling classroom or area. We are beginning our third year of homeschooling, and I have to admit that we have done just about everything as far as having homeschooling areas in our house. We began homeschooling at our kitchen table.  We moved [...]

7 Quick Takes: April 23, 2010 (Vol. 38)

~ 1 ~ Do you know which company is just about the coolest ever? It’s Catholic Child Catalog. I’ll post more another time about it, but it’s safe to say that I love them. ~ 2 ~ We finished our last day of our homeschool co-op this week.  Although I look forward to a summer [...]

Using Scrapbook Layouts to Decorate Your Walls

This week’s Works for Me Wednesday theme is a “Great Tip” theme. I picked one of my past WFMW posts (from January 2008) to repost. I will admit to being a flunkie and I still have the exact same layouts up on my wall today as I did two years ago. Maybe I’ll change them [...]

Why You Should Choose Larger Portraits for Your Walls

I used to have my own photography business, and I hung around on many photography forums.  One thing that came up again and again was how so many people would order very small sizes of prints.  They might order some wallets, a handful of 5x7s, and then their big portrait — an 8×10. I will [...]

Refinishing Our Free Piano

This school year, we decided that each of the kids should take some type of lessons. It was an easy decision, because each of them had been expressing a desire to try something that involved lessons. Jack wanted to try violin, Molly wanted ballet, and Noah wanted to try the piano. Not having so much [...]

Our Homeschool Classroom

This summer, the room that we use as a toy room and school room was a mess. But, now as we have ventured into the beginning of the school year (today!), I finally got it all cleaned up and organized. (What a huge relief!) The boxes that I plan to use for Work Boxes for [...]

Decorating Your Kitchen with Sprinkles

I had really been wanting to implement this idea that I saw on another blog (although I absolutely can’t remember where I saw it — edited to add that my friend Pam reminded me of where I saw it — at Bakerella’s blog!), but I put off doing it. Granted, I mostly put it off [...]

Redecorating a Room Without Paint or New Furniture (WFMW #59)

We have recently done some room redecorating, and we did it without a single gallon of paint or any new furniture. Now, I won’t say that it was cheap, but it was the easiest room redecoration that we’ve ever done. We had been wanting to have a slightly different look in our bedroom, so we [...]

Reorganizing My Craft Room

I can’t seem to help myself — I like to organize. So, from time to time, I reorganize something that I have already reorganized. Honestly though, it’s usually because it’s just not working for me anymore, and I have a new idea of what might work better. My craft room, of course, is no exception [...]

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