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The textured wallpaper I used on my stairs is getting a workout, that's for sure. It's getting to be right up there with drop cloth on the list of materials I would like to wrap myself in. But instead of...

You've seen pictures of my upstairs hallway before, but you may not have noticed the tiny nook right before the guest room on the left hand side. Yeah, that's about all it's good for- a vase with random twigs...

I recently sold a piece in my booth (yay!) that I wanted to share with you guys because I used the infamous tin foil technique. I had never tried it before, but given the original state of the coffee table, I...

Since fall has passed, I thought it was time to take down my paint chip garland. I loved it, but it was making me miss the leaves... So, I was on the hunt for a new garland to grace my B&B and turned to...

When Jessica from Joyfolie emailed me about her brown paper floors, I jumped over to her blog to check them out. Click image for details. Aside from the amazing shoe eye candy all over the place, I couldn't...

Oh yeah, just when you thought I couldn't possibly ruffle anything else...it happened. Now I love love love our BH&G comforter, but it just got to be too difficult to wash the king size monstrosity. It...

Check out my floors in the May/June 2012 issue of Natural Home and Garden! Also featured in the November 2012 issue of WNC Woman!  My brown paper floors are by far my most viewed content, at the top of...

The kitchen has been seriously lacking in the window treatment department. I guess I was always worried about blocking the light since there's only one window. I was thinking about alternatives to traditional...

I'm on a everything-is-cheaper-if-it's-reusable kick which prompted me to try and make lunch bags for my husband and I. After a little google-ing, I found this tutorial at Prudent Baby which seemed pretty...

To my house anyway. I finally rid the front door of the forsythia, and replaced it with 1 "fall garland" and two seasonal "spike accents" from A.C. Moore. I bought a roll of rust orange ribbon to hang the...