In the current market where owning a house can seem impossible, there are some creative ways to get started. Your first home may not be your “forever” home, but once you own something, it is MUCH easier to move up. Mobile Homes Mobile homes are not what they use to be. I grew up in …
Crafting Spotlight: Stamped Jewelry
Jewelry is given and received as gifts, but it doesn’t always speak to our hearts, or say the things we need to hear. I find that I sometimes need something to remind me that I believe in myself. Sometimes this is just a word, or it could be a favorite quote. We can place this …
Office Decluttering
My Office is a real challenge for me. I have worked from home for over 22 years. I have usually shared an office, since I would use it during the day when others were gone. However, this made it really hard to hold myself accountable since I could tell myself that the mess was a …
Once Upon a Time…
…I decided to sell my house. We had lived there for 14 years… longer than I had lived anywhere my entire life. I moved around a lot as a kid, 30 times between kindergarten and high school, but that is a different story. Moving a lot as a kid though had never prepared me for …
My Craft Studio Story
I have an amazing craft studio space now, but it did not start out that way. Just like everything else around here, it evolved over several years. In the beginning, it was just a garage full of stuff on metal rolling shelves. It worked, but it was cold, and visually cluttered. Honestly, the origins of …
My Upstairs Landing…
One of my intentions with this blog is to share tips & tricks that have actually worked for me. In doing so, I am going to be honest and share parts of my house that I am not proud of. These spaces didn’t get this way overnight, and during the pandemic the clutter had only …
January is “Get Organized” Month!
So let’s LABEL ALL THE THINGS! I think it is only natural to want to start the year off more organized than the last. Lots of new stuff comes into the house over the holidays, and we have to find somewhere to put it all. Just the simple act of making a dedicated space (shelf, …