Cozy Winter Decor

Happy 2023 EVERYONE!

I hope this post finds you all well and you slipped right

into "2023" healthy & happy!

Refreshing the Staircase - Erase Wood Scratches & Blemishes

Well hello there everyone, it's been a while since my last blog post, what a slacker I am!!! 
I've been posting more in Instagram these days (it's so much quicker).

So this weekend I tackled a project that has been 
bugging me for a while and I want to share it with you cuz 
I am just THAT PUMPED about the outcome!

The "eyesore" I tackled is our STAIRCASE !!!! Our house is 12 years old now and the
staircase has made it through the toddler years, tons play-dates & sleep-over's, 
a 185 pound Newfoundland dog, 3 kittens practicing their climbing skills & my 
vacuum cleaner crashing into it on a regular basis (bad driving skills). 

Our Halloween Front Porch 2017

HAPPY HALLOWEENIE guys!!! 

So today I am sharing our Halloween front porch just in time for Trick or Treater's 

coming over later tonight!

A Little Halloween Tour 2017

Hello everyone, as always I am barely getting my Halloween post up here on time.  

Every year I tell myself to get started earlier and it never happens. 

Well, 1 more day until Halloween and if I don't post our 

little Halloween tour now it will never happen. 

So without a ton of chatter, here we are....welcome to our little tour. I don't go 

overboard with Halloween and only have a few little areas downstairs decorated. 

Most of the big stuff we purchased years ago when we did a Haunted House 

for the kids. Otherwise we probably wouldn't have much Halloween Decor period. 

Come into the foyer. This scary dude is waiting for you!

Gorgeous Eclectic-Boho Style Foyer

2016 in Review

Hello and Happy New Year and all the best to all of you!!! Another year has gone by 

so fast and here we are in 2017.

We still have family over from Germany, so it's been a little slow on my blog 

and I am wayyyyy behind on catching up on reading everybody else's  blogs.

I typed up this quick post last night with a look back of my top posts from 2016. This might
give you a chance to catch up on some posts you might have missed during the year.

Christmas House Tour At Little Brags

Hello and Merry Christmas to you all !!! I have been so busy this last week, I figure I better share 

these Christmas pictures on the blog here before Christmas is over in a couple of days....LOL

You can also see a Christmas video tour of our house here. 

Well, it is getting late already and I still have a few more things to do before bed time! 

So here we go, I will make this really quick with little words....

Enjoy and please pin away with ideas for  next Christmas!!! 

Here is the Family Room

Project Mudroom Organization

Hi there loves, how is your November going so far? Well, I seem to have gotten bit my the organizing bug. I spend this weekend cleaning out the garage and closets and making Goodwill runs. I really don't enjoy organizing a whole lot but it sure feels good when you are done and you can actually find things and open 

a closet door without having baskets and boxes attacking you.  

One area I need to not only de-clutter but also re-think and re-do is our little mudroom. The cold & wet weather is here now and our mudroom gets so crowded with jackets and boots. I currently use baskets and crates for shoe storage but that is not working well, the boys just keep throwing their shoes on the ground 

as they come in and I keep picking them up....over and over... We need a different system! 

I put together this Inspiration Board/Wishlist to help me get started.

I needed a plan and found everything here:

Wayfair Entry & Hall Furniture

A Few New Things Around The House

Hello friends, it's been a bit quiet around the blog this summer. We took a family trip in July and I hardly spend any time on the computer. Things are back to normal, but it seems to me that I will be playing "bloggy reading catch up" for a long time. 

I wanted to share some new things around the house with you. For those of you that follow my blog, you know I have been painting our kitchen and family room this summer. With the new paint color came some re-decorating and I also picked up a few new things. My taste has changed so much this year and I need to take it slow and give a lot of thought to what I want to invest time and money for. 

Well, let's get to the fun part Amiga's (and Amigo's), here are some pictures for you!!!! Here is a wall in our kitchen nook. My friend Michi got me this cute window frame a while back, I wrapped some stringlights around it, I love the combination of the rich gray wall color and the pop of white from the lights.

Our Easter Entry 2016

Hi there friends, today I want to share our Easter Entry with you. Been running around 
crazy all day, trying to get a million things done. Well, I managed to take a few very 
quick pictures of our entry, so I can share them before Easter is over!!!! 

A SIMPLE Little Christmas Tour

I promised you "inside" Christmas pictures in my last post.
If I don't hurry, Christmas will be over and done with!

So let's get right to it, welcome to our entry

I purchased a bunch of STRALA stars from IKEA this year 

and wanted them to be the main focus of our Christmas Decor 

A Bajot Stand Make Over With Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

Hello Lovelies. How has your weekend been?

An Eclectic Entry

Hi lovelies, after all the Christmas decor was put up my foyer looked so sad. I kinda ignored it for a few weeks. I really wanted to do something a bit different BUT what? Well, this is what I came up with...

I wanted something different, and that is what I got! Lol

Hiding A Thermomstat In Plain Sight

Hello Lovelies, today I want to share a wall in our house that I have been hating for a long time. It is a narrow wall right next to our Family room. There is a Thermostat right smack in the middle of it, so I never really knew what to do with it. So I just left it naked for 5 years....LOL

But after getting into the beautiful "Land Of Blogging" and seeing all those beautiful Gallery Walls everyone seems to be doing these days, I went through my house and found a bunch of homeless junk I had stuffed away in a closet.

A Little Christmas In The Entry

Hi  there Peeps, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure did! I finally threw out all my pumpkins and gourds the day after Thanksgiving, which was a shame since none of them were rotten yet.

 So I got my Christmas boxes out and started decorating the Entry a bit....None of the other Christmas decorations are done. I am moving SLOW this weekend.

Decorating with a Grain Sack

A while back I found an old grain sack at my favorite store. I've been thinking about what to do with it for a while now. Well, I think I finally had a good idea.

Wrought Iron Staircase Dreaming and a Lantern

Hello Peeps, I have been thinking/dreaming about re-doing our staircase for a while now. Our stairway is the first thing you see when you enter. Here is a picture I took today

  My biggest complaint are the white wooden support railings. They actually come off all the time. We've had a Handy man come over more than once to fix it. Can you believe that they are installed with a staple gun????  Isn't that ridiculous? I also don't like the pine wood on a staircase, since it is a really soft wood and dents really easy in such a heavy traffic area.