dollar store Halloween village makeover

DIY black Halloween village from Dollar Store houses

I love Halloween and I love the decorations that come along with it. I’m also a big fan of those cute little Halloween villages, but can’t really justify spending the money on one (especially since I have an elaborate Christmas one…), so when I saw a tutorial from Desiree over at The 36th Avenue on […]

it’ll be a breeze: part 1

It seems like every time I think something will come together quickly and easily in my house, we run into roadblocks that add hours (or even days!) to our renovation plans. Welcome to the joys of older-home ownership. Although it’s not fair to blame all my house problems on it being over 20 years old, […]

october mantel

I’m so sorry I missed the last two posts. We went out of town for the weekend and I was so busy running around trying to get things ready to go, I forgot to publish a post for Friday and Monday and didn’t think about it till I was in the car on my way […]

$12 chalkboard

Months ago when I posted about our hall bathroom makeover, I mentioned in my still-to-do-list that I wanted to add some more wall art. I’d been thinking for awhile about what I wanted to hang next to the window picture frame in there; I knew I wanted to do some kind of quote, but couldn’t decide […]

raw apple spice cake

It’s been awhile since I shared a yummy recipe with y’all so I’m jumping on the Fall flavors bandwagon with a delicious raw apple spice cake today. After cleaning and chopping up any type of baking apples, they bathe in a mixture of brown and white sugar for half an hour. I know. Sounds amazing […]