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Summer Mother Daughter Picnic Ideas | Simple & Beautiful
When life is hard I want to create and relax, which is why I’m so excited to share these simple mother daughter picnic ideas with you! If you haven’t heard yet, we have been home with our adopted daughter for 7 weeks. I shared a bit about the first few days it in my cottage container garden tips post a couple of weeks ago. But more time has passed, and while some of the challenges we faced early on are settling, we are finding new struggles. Currently, our biggest struggle is communication. She is so smiley, but when she wants to communicate with us and we don’t understand her it…
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Create A Beautiful Cottage Container Garden with a Bench & Herbs
We decided to add charm to our new patio with a simple cottage container garden this year. You won’t believe how easy and life-giving it was! *This post is generously sponsored by The Home Depot. All opinions shared here are 100% my own. This post also contains affiliate links for your convenience. Thank you for supporting my blog and the brands I truly love! It’s been a while since I’ve shared here. Truly I’ve thought of sharing so many different things with you. But life has been very full since we brought our daughter home from Korea. In beautiful ways and in difficult ways. But I guess that’s the way…
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How to Make a Beautiful Spring Artificial Flower Arrangement
Creating an artificial flower arrangement is one of the best and easiest ways to add beautiful Spring touches to your home. I’m so excited to be joining Pasha with Pasha is Home and 12 other ladies to share some Spring inspiration with you. If you’re here from Simply 2 Mom’s I’m so glad that you came! I loved all their ideas for decorating with faux greenery. It reminds me of the DIY faux tree I made a few weeks ago. How this artificial flower arrangement reminded me that loving people is much easier than we make it out to be As I type this, I’m walking among some of the…
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7 Beautiful & Thrifty European Farmhouse Spring Home Accessories
Adding Spring home accessories can be gorgeous and budget-friendly if you get creative and keep things simple, let me show you how! Before we dive into my budget-friendly Spring decor ideas I want to say thank you to Kelly with The Tattered Pew for inviting me to join this home tour! It’s always such an amazing week full of home decor inspiration from some of the most wonderful ladies. To see everyone’s post this week just scroll to the bottom of this post and you’ll find all the links to everyone Spring home decor inspiration. If you’re here from Jen’s light and airy Spring Home Tour I’m so glad you…
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How to Decorate Kitchen Shelves Beautifully
Open shelving can be very intimidating, which is why I want to share my easy process to decorate kitchen shelves that turn out stunning. FAQ about decorating kitchen shelves Before we get into the process I use to decorate shelves I want to address a few common questions concerning kitchen open shelves. Are open shelves still in style? They made a comeback in the early 2000’s and so it makes sense to ask if it’s a trend that is on it’s way out, or if it’s sticking around for a while. Open shelves have made a few transitions since they were first reintroduced. You used to mainly see farmhouse kitchen…
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Minimal & Beautiful Easter Tablescape with Blue and White
Setting a table for everyday life can be hard, which is why I’m going to share how to style a beautiful Easter tablescape for everyday living. Before we get into this minimal and beautiful Easter tablescape, I wanted to say thank you to Pasha with Pasha is Home for inviting me to join this fun blog hop! Are you here from Kelly’s pretty Easter table? She is such an amazing and talented friend. If you haven’t seen her table make sure you head over and check it out! What makes a good “practical” tablescape? If you’ve been following along over here you know I LOVE a good tablescape. But you…
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Welcome Home Saturday – Spring Inspiration
Today I’m so excited to be joining the lovely ladies who host the Welcome Home Saturday series! They are such a fun group of girls and I’m absolutely honored to call them friends. It’s March now so we all are experiencing a little bit of Spring fever and are so excited to share all kinds of ideas with you about Spring. This coming week I’ll be sharing a Spring tablescape and then I plan to share the rest of our house all dressed up for Spring. Decorating for Spring is one of my favorite times of year to decorate. That and Christmas. There is something so exciting and refreshing about…
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The Best Lemon Ricotta Cookie Recipe with Sourdough Discard
This winter I began my sourdough journey. It led me to a simple and easy sourdough lemon ricotta cookie recipe that is perfect for Spring. I’ve mentioned this past fall here that I struggle with cooking and baking. Not that I’m not good, although I can assure you I’m not an artisan chef. I’m probably just regular good. My kids tell me that I make the best food, but as sweet as that is we all know they eat meals prepared by me more than anyone else haha! Regardless, I’m always afraid of trying a new recipe and setting it before anyone other than my little family. I’m sure this…
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How to Make A DIY Artificial Plant | Realistic and Thrifty
During the cold months, I need to have faux plants in the house, which is why I decided to make this beautiful DIY artificial plant. I love large displays It doesn’t take very much time following along here to realize that I’m a fan of BIG plants in our home. I started with this pretty and large lilac display a couple of years ago. From there I graduated and just kept getting bigger. Wildflowers growing in the ditches, multiflora roses, and autumn olive displays are among the most common in our home. Oh and all the tree limbs my husband prunes! My father-in-law told me this year I’m allowed to…
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DIY Wooden Peg Rail | Beautiful Simplicity
We finally added a DIY wooden peg rail to our farmhouse open shelves in the kitchen and I wish we would have done this sooner. Okay, guys… I recently had a thought, and it brought me so much peace that I feel like I just have to share it with you. I was standing in the kitchen pouring myself a cup of coffee. Then I looked up. I saw our simple open shelves and my new sourdough starter sitting on the counter. Then when I opened the drawer to grab a spoon (because I was adding milk and sugar to this cup of coffee haha) I saw a drawer that…
