How to decorate a junk style mantel

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As soon as the Christmas mantel decorating came down this weekend, I was feeling the need for a trash to treasure mantel. What can I say… I was craving my rust and wood. 🙂 How to decorate a junk style mantel? Easy! Layer, stack, move around like minded clutter until it feels right and there […]

Sat Nite Special link party 117 – your fav 2011 outdoor project

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Welcome to Saturday Nite Special #117, the multi themed link party!  * Home Decor  * Crafts, / Sewing / Recipes * Theme of the week Every Fri 7pm  to Sunday 11 pm Pacific. I really love decorating the yard and view it much like the indoors, just, it’s outside.  Junk looks good anywhere after all. […]

On being an unintentional TREND decorator

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Apartment Therapy had a really interesting post today. (click HERE) They’ve highlighted as above, a few decorating trends and have asked if you follow trends yourself. (thank-you reader Susan Birk for letting me know!) I gasped AND smiled when I noticed I was in the lineup. (thanks AP!) YOU GUYS know I don’t follow other […]

When winter shuts us down

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We are still in our major cold snap! Schools shut down half way through today summoning parents for early pickups. So I put down the dayjob, braved the snow drifts and checked out the very white windy wintery wonderland. Mass mayhem! A regular type street was closed due to drifting snow. Accidents left. right and […]

We have ourselves a chalkboard wall!

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Our chalkboard wall is up! We did it! Or should I say Cody did it. I was having a few issues getting the paint to stick. We used a lightweight sponge roller where the paint was very thick and heavy, so it was going on patchy. I quit when it wasn’t working thinking we needed […]