Grown From Scratch

May 7, 2012 Posted by Amy

Spring Stylin’ and Profilin’

Last week I mentioned that I was challenging myself to a spring makeover in the family room, dining room, and kitchen for under $300.00. That is a tall order for a three room TOTAL makeover. I started...

May 4, 2012 Posted by Amy

Thistlewood Farm And A Virtual Re-design

Usually I do ” Best Of The Blogosphere” on Fridays and share projects I love from across the web. I am going to ease back into that since the pictures/html/writing etc. take a lot of time. ...

May 3, 2012 Posted by Amy

Dining Room…Done-ish

The dining room is done…ish. You know I can never quite be done with something. For this week, it is done-sies. This is how it started…dark, red, and dungeonish. Check out the...

Apr 30, 2012 Posted by Amy

The Greatest DIY Project Ever!

I’m BACK! Whoop, Whoop! Are you all wondering where I have been since my last post? The Cheddar Corn Muffins post…whatta post to disappear on… So it all started with something I (and...

Feb 13, 2012 Posted by Amy

Cheddar Corn Muffins

Pin It These are REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, good. They make Josh forget his low carb diet for a hot corn muffin second. Whoops. TIP: These freeze really well. I make 6 big muffins at a time (you can...

Feb 8, 2012 Posted by Amy

What I Miss About Summer

I was going through my photo archives the other day and stumbled across some pictures I took last summer. I really miss summer. Dear Summer/Spring/warm weather…please come back soon. Here is...

Feb 6, 2012 Posted by Amy

A North Carolina Baby Shower

Last weekend we had my baby shower, hosted by my mom and step-mom. It was a ton of fun. I had a chance to snap a couple of pictures before guests arrived and I thought I would share. The food and...

Feb 2, 2012 Posted by Amy

January: Month In Review

January…oh….January. We had such high hopes for you. We accomplished a couple of projects this month that make us smile. Namely, being able to walk through the garage to get to the...

Jan 27, 2012 Posted by Amy

Girl Look At That Scottie…

I told you all about Piggys surgery last month in THIS POST so I thought I would give you a little update. Thanks to everyone who asked about him . I like to call this picture: Girl Look At...

Jan 25, 2012 Posted by Amy

Willows Room: Sneak Peek

I have a few things going on in Willows Room right now which is exciting since I have had major anxiety over not having it done. I’m just not the girl who slaps a crib in the room and calls it a...

Jan 24, 2012 Posted by Amy

Letters For Baby W-i-l-l-o-w’s Room

I love the name letter (for a lack of a better phrase) that you can buy for a nursery or a kids room. There are so many cute options out there from places like Pottery Barn and Babies-R-Us. Not to...

Jan 23, 2012 Posted by Amy

Garage Update: Progress

This is how it started. 5000 sq. ft. house moved into a 1588 sq. ft. house. After two full weekends… 30 bags of trash and donations… This is where we are now. We were...

Jan 20, 2012 Posted by Amy

Best Of The Blogosphere

There were a TON of great ideas out there this week. Inadvertently this has become Best Of The Valentines Crafts post. There were so many great Valentines crafts out there this week and it’s...

Jan 19, 2012 Posted by Amy

Freezer Meal: Breakfast Sandwiches

I heart cooking for the freezer. It makes my life SO much easier and who doesn’t need an easier life? At our house, we are super busy in the morning, I am trying to get Josh off to work which...

Jan 18, 2012 Posted by Amy

Craft Closet Reveal

I was able to take a couple of hours in the midst of the garage decrapification to decrapify the crap closet…uh…I mean craft closet. By the way, I don’t know if we are going to...

Jan 17, 2012 Posted by Amy

French Onion Soup

I made this amazing French Onion Soup last week when my sister came over for lunch. I needed to make soup and I didn’t have time to go to the store. I took a look in the pantry…I had a ton...

Jan 16, 2012 Posted by Amy

2012 Word Of The Year: REAL

Layla over at The Lettered Cottage challenged all of us bloggity bloggers to come up with a word for the year. Here is what she had to say about the “word of the year” in her recent...

Jan 13, 2012 Posted by Amy

Best Of The Blogosphere

As always, there were some great ideas out there this week. Here are some of my fav’s: This is something I L-O-V-E from Reba and Eldarose at Re-Invented Style. My thoughts have been turning...

Jan 12, 2012 Posted by Amy

Reader Re-Vamp: A Brick Fireplace

Welcome to my first Reader Re-Vamp! I am so excited to be working on projects with my readers right now, I can’t tell you how fun it is! This will be a new installment that I am starting this...

Jan 11, 2012 Posted by Amy

Office/Mudroom Organization

I thought I might share some of my office organization with you guys. As I mentioned 3,000 times we are de-crapifying and getting organized this month. What better way to start off the year? We have...

Jan 10, 2012 Posted by Amy

Huge Fabric Covered Cork Board

I am slowly getting stuff done here in the Laundr-O-Office. I have to add craft room in there somewhere too because I am going to move a couple little crafty craft things in here. Maybe something like...

Jan 9, 2012 Posted by Amy

Contact Paper Covered File Folders

I have been working a little here and there on the Laundr-O-Office, cleaning, organizing, decorating. With the whole garage situation I am haven’t had time to be diligent about it over the last...

Jan 6, 2012 Posted by Amy

Best Of The Blogosphere

Once again, there were so many amazing ideas out there this week. Now that Christmas is over peeps are starting to post some more year-long or year-wide (stuff you can use all year) awesomeness. ...

Jan 5, 2012 Posted by Amy

Willows Nursery: Some Ideas

Willows room is finally empty of everything we have been meaning to get out of there. We painted a few weeks ago and installed a closet system for her clothes (see that project HERE) but still had some...

Jan 4, 2012 Posted by Amy

Getting Organized

For a couple of weeks now I have been talking about January being “Decrapification Month”. Well, it is officially January and that means we have to get started decrapifying. I thought I...