Today is Day 4 in our week long celebration and we have with us Haley from The Distracted Blogger. If you’ve read any of the comments on my posts, you’ll recognize this familiar face. I was so excited when Haley offered to guest post. I love her new blog and I just knew I had to ask her to write about thrifting. I was in awe when I saw all the awesome things she gets from local thrift shops! This girl knows her vintage style on a budget. She’s bringing her best tips for thrift today! Enjoy! Thanks Haley!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My first guest post! How exciting, especially for someone who has been a big supporter of me from the beginning! Christina actually encouraged me to start a blog, so here I am The Distracted Blogger, also know as Haley. I blog about my many interests, I swear I have to many, like my…
Bloggiversary Celebration – Day 3- Going Forward: Blog Goals 2011 – 2012
Hey everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the bloggiversary stuff. Today I’d like to take a brief moment to share some blog goals for the upcoming year. I’m going to be honest here. When I started blogging I thought it would be “easy” and that I’d just do it here and there for fun and make a part time job out of it. HA! Blogging takes time and dedication to make it work if you actually want to turn it from a hobby into a real job. I’ve learned that the hard way. So I sat down recently and started a list of goals for the upcoming year. I may end up adding to them, who knows?(An aside: If you’re blogging for $$$ and have some goals you think I should include or advice for a newbie PLEASE leave me a comment. I’m still very new and learning as I go…
Bloggiversary Celebration – Day 2 – Guest Post: Tales of the Scotts
It’s only appropriate that Eva @ Tales of the Scotts guest posts for me today. Last year during her one year bloggiversary she asked me to share a project I had done based on something I saw during her I heart Mondays segment, so I did a guest post for her and ended up with my own blog! She’s busy with her two beautiful kiddos but I knew I wanted her to share something and so I begged, pleaded asked nicely if I could include one of my favorite posts of hers during our week long celebration and she said yes! Without further ado I bring you Eva’s Pumpkin Bread recipe. I made this last year after she blogged about it and I can totally vouch for how awesome it is. The one recipe makes a nice amount of bread and it is SO creamy and delicious. (And she’s totally…
Bloggiversary Celebration – Day 1 – The Year in Review
Due to a cold last week, I missed my own one year anniversary in blogging, so I decided to do some celebrating this week. Today I wanted to take a look back at some of the projects I’ve tackled in a year. (It kind of boggles me that I’ve done this stuff and showed our mess to the world – ha!) If you’ve missed any of these projects you can click on the caption below to go directly to that post.The most popular post by far in the past year has been this one:Who knew some dollar store frames would get that much attention?I still use those on a daily basis too. And they haven’t broken yet! Next up is my post on how I organize my kitchen. I’ll be honest with you here. I got the command hook idea to organize the measuring cups from my mother’s kitchen as I…
Sunday Pinspiration #2 – Swanky Side Tables
Hey ladies (and gents if you’re out there)! This week I was inspired by creative or unique side tables. (Actually, I was inspired by quite a bit. I was a pinning fool yesterday!) A couple of reminders before we begin:1. I have done my very best to find the original link for each picture. If for some reason there is an error or due credit isn’t given, please, PLEASE kindly let me know.2. If the link is directly to your blog – i.e. it is your original work – and you would rather I not post it, please let me know and the picture will be removed.3. If you like any of these and want to add them to your own Pinterest boards, please click the source link and pin from there to ensure proper credit.Let’s begin:I just loved the colors on this. So fresh. You should click the source link and see how it started…
Where Scrappy Gets Crafty – Pt 1
When I first started blogging (a year ago yesterday!?!) I featured my home office space and mentioned that I had plans for my cork board. Remember how it looked back then? Yeah, well it sat that way until Monday of this week when I decided enough was enough. Here’s the before – cluttered, messy, only barely functional:Well, that’s all over now! I hinted a couple of months ago that I was working on a fun and exciting project. Well, I can’t keep it to myself anymore. I’ve revamped my side of the office as my very own crafting studio! We use The Hubs desk for home office stuff and my side of things is all for me to create and craft! While it’s not completely finished, I couldn’t wait to show you the positive change in that area of the space. Here’s the cork board today:Sorry for the nighttime shot. It was…
Fall Wreath Dollar Tree Style
So while I was working on those flower poms for my dining room table, I thought I’d grab a couple of extra things from the Dollar Tree to whip up a quick wreath for fall. I grabbed a twisted, natural wreath form and some additional flowers and it took all of 10 minutes to throw this together:Here’s a detail shot of the flowers:Basically I just popped the flowers off of the stems and hot glued them to the wreath form. It cost me all of $2.00! Here’s my dilemma though. This was “done” two weeks ago, but I kept wanting to add to it – make it grander, but something told me to stop adding and live with it for a bit. I love the way it looks but something still nags at me. I feel like something is missing. Any suggestions?
Sunday Pinspiration #1 – Repurposed Bookshelves
OK so since joining Pinterest I have been pinning like a crazy person. If you follow me you know this. If not, well why are you still sitting here? Follow the link to the right to find me! ;)A couple of housekeeping notes to start:1. I have done my very best to find the original link for each picture. If for some reason there is an error or due credit isn’t given, please, PLEASE kindly let me know.2. If the link is directly to your blog – i.e. it is your original work – and you would rather I not post it, please let me know and the picture will be removed.Anywho, it gives me far too much inspiration. I cannot wait until we have a house so I can start doing some of the heavier duty projects, so for now I just thought each Sunday I would share some of…
Dollar Store Fall Decor
Last year, I spent a lot of time and effort making Halloween decor (that I will show you next week) for our newly annual Halloween party, but this year I wanted something more transitional. I like Halloween, don’t get me wrong, but pumpkins and spiders only go so far between October 1st and Thanksgiving. Obviously, since we’re saving for a house I didn’t want to spend a lot on new decor so I turned to one of my favorite stores – Dollar Tree. I also gave a little love to the Target dollar section. (There’s a reason they put that stuff by the front door and it sucks me in every time!)Check out what I made for our dining room table – all of which totaled NINE BUCKS (plus a couple of things I had already):First, I made these floral poms. Each one is a wiffle ball covered in “silk”…
Martha Hacked – Newspaper Recycling Station
A couple of weeks ago I was wading through e-mails and came across my Martha Stewart Craft of the Day e-mail. I generally look at the craft and then pop over to her organizing tip of the day on her website to see what incredibly expensive/difficult/time consuming project she had planned. Well on that day rather than just glossing over it, I stopped when found this – a newspaper recycling station! SourceNow, with all do respect to Ms. Stewart (who I am warming up to slowly) and her idea, I didn’t feel like going out and buying a wooden crate and the hardware that would be needed to create her ingenious project. I knew there had to be a way to do it cheaply and with some of the things I already had laying around the house and I was right! I did it with just what I had on hand…no…