home art: March 2010

A spring table

Well, it’s in the 70’s here today, and the weather has been glorious for weeks now – SO unlike the Midwest. I’m crossing fingers and toes that there is no more snow! Puhhhleaze? Considering it’s supposed to be 84 degrees here tomorrow, you’d think we’re safe. When I showed you the cute little Dollar Tree bird in this post, I told you I had some ideas in mind for others as well. I was so sure

A cozy window nook!

First of all, thanks so much for your idea on the furniture layout! It’s hard to get a feel for the room just with the pics I posted – there are walkways behind both sofas, so for now, they have to stay put. But I am going to add a console table behind the long sofa for sure – I found a perfect table that isn’t too deep and it’s gorg! But for now I’m trying not to spend any cash. ;) One of the

Moving furniture around (& the holidays?)

First of all, thank you SO much for your thoughts on the veggie garden! I am so excited! It sounds like the Square Foot Gardening technique works great, so that’s what I’m going to try. Onto the purpose of this post. I blame this one on The Nester. Darn it, I love her, but her post about moving furniture around the other day caused me to push very large and heavy sofas around our family room for

How does your garden grow?

Really. I’m asking. How does your garden grow? Cause I want to grow a vegetable garden. :) This year, I have been hit with the must-grow-our-own-food-I-may-not-ever-use-because-I-hardly-cook bug. I MUST have my own carrots. And lettuce. Pumpkins. (Ack! Can you imagine how fun it would be to grow your own pumpkins??) I do OK with plants – we can’t have many inside because we have three cats. One

Lighten up!

First of all, the winner of the $50 HomeGoods gift card is Cindy from The Flipping Couple! Congrats Cindy! Email me and I’ll get your card sent out to you! Sooo…this post could also be titled: “Hello my name is Sarah and I suffer from DOCD (Decorating OCD)” or “I am obsessed with the color green.” or “Spray paint is ahhhhmazing.” I couldn’t decide. I don’t know what’s come over me

Vinyl Love

Are you a vinyl luva like me? I think the vinyl wording and designs that have been gaining popularity over the past few years are just so FUN to use around the house. Recently I’ve been wondering if they are here to stay, and then I saw two episodes of Divine Design where Candice Olsen used vinyl on the walls – and I figured I’m good to go for quite a while. I mean, if Candice is using it…I’m

HomeGoods Spring Challenge!

Well helloooo and welcome to SPRING!! Isn’t it fantastic? It’s about darn time, that’s all I gotta say. (Although I see many of you got SNOW this weekend. For once, we had gorgeous weather!) First of all –- the winner of Donna G.’s photography print is Stacey from The Blessed Nest! (Stacey has a beautiful site, check it out!) Congrats Stacey! Email me and I’ll get you in touch with Donna. OK,

Giveaway Weekend!

Hello there! I am so excited about this weekend’s giveaway because the items just scream SPRING to me. Since spring starts this weekend, it’s perfect timing! I cannot even tell you how lovely Donna Geissler’s photography is. She has been an advertiser of mine for a while now, and I’ve been looking forward to showing off some of her beautiful work. Ahhhmazing. I’ll show you a few of my

DIY built ins

Hello there! I’ve been meaning to do this post for about three months! I meant to do it back in January but things got in the way -- like stairs and family rooms and decrapifying and all that good stuff!
Because I’m working on the big boy room right now, I thought I would share more detail into how my Dad and I made the built ins in this room back when I was pregnant. (Sniff.) I figured a video

Thirty-One winner!

Happy St. Patty’s Day to you! Hope your day includes something green and fun – whether it be green eggs, green beer or a green margarita! (Or a green mint chocolate shake like I had today – yummo!)The (randomly drawn) winner of the Thirty-One giveaway is #621, Shelly from Kansas City! Shelly, please email me and I’ll get your info to Debbie. :)Debbie has offered a free Thirty-One key fob to

A blue room (I did not cry!)

It took me a whole year to figure out the paint colors for the Bub’s big boy room (are you tired of hearing about it yet??). I wanted something that was a bit more mature but still fun…and I was determined to NOT do primary colors. Why? I have no idea. I guess because it was predictable? I’ve mentioned before how hard it is to create a unique space for a boy no matter what the age. His apple

We hopped! And SHOPPED!

OH my goodness! We had the BEST day on Saturday! My friend Beckie and I were so excited the Goodwill Shop and Hop had finally arrived –- even if it was the first day in forever it was cold and rainy. Boo hiss! We still had a BLAST! I am happy to announce there was no cat fighting or hair pulling and ZERO knocking each other to the ground to get to an item – at least I’m pretty sure. ;) We

Giveaway Weekend!

Well hello there! I’ve got another fantastic giveaway for you this weekend! Yippee! My advertiser Debbie is a Thirty-One consultant and was the first to make me aware of these fantastic products. I absolutely LOVE the bags and items at Thirty-One and I think you will too. Thirty-One has a crazy good selection – not only bags and purses, but backpacks and baskets and coasters and adorable

Finding space

I loved reading your sweet comments about the Bub’s room! Thank you so much! Many of you asked about the book holder in his room -- it’s actually a Goodwill find. It was natural wood and I spray painted it white and added the “books” letters. Love it. :) I’m continuing to make progress on his room’s transformation, and I continue to get more and more excited! Yesterday and today, I’ve been

My favorite parts of my favorite room

Well…the time has come. Sniff. I decided about a year ago it was time to start transforming the Bub’s room into his “big boy” room. This one has been a hard for me. I told you here how I worked on this room for weeks while I was pregnant, doing most of the work with my Dad. It is an understatement to say I love this room. Almost every day of our son’s three years, I’ve sat in here at one

My craft “room”

Well, it’s not really a room. There’s no real flooring, and zero drywall…but it works and I lurve it! I created this “space” a couple years ago, but recently have been making changes to make it function better and look cuter– as cute as cement walls and floors can get. ;) The space started out like this a few years ago: That would be a dumping zone. This is the first space as you walk down

Almost time to shop!

Hello all! Oh my, I was SO GLAD to read your responses to my last post. That’s why I love this big bloggy world – so many of us with the same messy houses who experience the same things and can share and vent about them. I am happy to announce I am blogging tonight from my pretty much, almost there, decluttered basement. It’s a bit chilly down here tonight, but I couldn’t resist. ;) The

In real life

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been just a teensy weensy obsessed with the decrapification of our basement. Usually I wait to attack that space every year after I’ve decluttered every room in the house, but I just could NOT even stand it anymore. It was making me just sick every time I walked down there…really. The amount of crap was overwhelming. So a couple weeks ago I started the biggest

The stair redo how-to

I know it took me forever to get this post up, but I’m finally going to share the rest of the steps it took to get the stairs to where they are now – that would be GORG. ;)This process took a while, but the planning before that took a good year – I took my time deciding what to do. I figured they would look fantastic, I just wanted to make sure they would be safe. I did a lot of research over the

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