DIY wooden village Christmas mantel decor This charming DIY wooden Christmas village brings the magic of the holiday season straight to your Christmas mantel, using scrap wood and a window frame! If you know me at all, you’ll already know I love love LOVE Christmas decorations that are very natural and neutral, as if you’re walking through a forest. Most of […]
Twas 2 days before Christmas, And my kitchen Christmas decorating was not done! So I scrambled one evening ’till midnight… So I could take pics the next day in the sun! There is nothing like a Christmas day deadline to get it ALLLLL done, right?! So welcome to my Christmas junk kitchen and living room […]
This year’s stacked vintage crates Christmas mantel transpired by… fluke. Do you remember my fall mantel with stacked vintage crates HERE? When Christmas approached, I honestly didn’t want to take it all down. I loved the warmth from the old crates! So before I gutted the fall mantel to start all over, I started adding […]
I really did wanted a Welcome Fall rustic living room tour… but at the moment, I didn’t think it would happen. I was sitting on the sofa watching a little TV. When a commercial came on, my eyes wandered around the room. The fireplace mantel was FAR from a fall rustic living room tour.. in fact, it […]
Would you believe, for several long weeks my mantel was completely bare? Oh it was. The fireplace makes quite a statement all on its own even bare! However leaving it bare just felt… I don’t know. Light. It wasn’t intentional. I had just been ‘borrowing’ things it had on it for elsewhere until it had nothing left! The mantel store […]
Imagine ALL your all season home decor items having the ability to magically morph into full out fall or Christmas with the snap of your fingers. Wouldn’t it be amazing to get rid of the big boxes of Christmas we only use 1 month out of the entire year? Only to use things we use every day instead? Yes… why yes it […]
A couple years back, when I first saw Kelly’s vintage sock stretchers hung on her fireplace, I literally gasped. And then when Michael created his gorgeous, upscale wood stockings on his fireplace last year, that was enough for me! That’s when I knew I had to give this wood stocking dea my own little junk styled spin. So […]
Stacked lime and purple hydrangeas for a fall mantel Oh it felt so good to get into the DIY spirit once again. I stayed home all day, mowed the lawn, cleaned the house, then took a wander outside to inspect the hydrangeas. We are now into fall hydrangea season, still with warm skies, but with […]
Learn how to make this reclaimed scrap wood window box . When we were in Hawaii last summer, we went to this little town called Paia in Maui. It wears a true hippy vibe, with patchwork buildings, tall looming rustic trees, with plenty of dreadlocks and bare toes for good measure. So when I whipped […]
Watch out world… I’m in a colour-less mood. Even more so than normal. 🙂 This can change at any given moment of course! Once the Sleigh Rides Christmas mantel came down, the mantel actually sat bare for awhile. A reset, if you will. I was just done seeing ‘stuff’. What was so attractive about ‘bare?’ Invisible. Didn’t […]