Share your Holiday Home

ACK! I am so excited! It’s time to start thinking CHRISTMAS!!! Yahoo!! YES, I know…Thanksgiving comes first. I love Thanksgiving as much as the next person…but November 1st really signals the start of the holidays for me. So I get to dream, swoon and plan for them starting today. :) I am THRILLED to share a fun event some of my beautiful bloggy friends and I have thrown together – I guess you

Autumn in Indiana

Hello there! Hope your Halloween weekend is going beautifully! A couple of weeks ago, my Sis and I took a day off from the decluttering around here to take in some of the fall beauty around us. It was her last day before heading to her new job and my last day having her around all day. :( Sniff. I do love being with her – I don’t just use her for manual labor. ;) I’m so proud to be a born

So cheap it’s scary

Can you believe Halloween is just days away? The days are going by SO FAST! I’m so excited for Monday though – November 1st is the first day I really allow myself to start thinking about Christmas. And I have a fun holiday event I’ll be announcing on Monday that you won’t want to miss! ;) So anyway, we’ve had Halloween all over the place for a while now, but I’ve let the Bub kind of take over.

Giveaway winners!

Hello there! I wanted to make sure to announce the winners from the TWO fabulous giveaways last week!

The winner of the Holiday with Matthew Mead “bookazine” is Heather at rcadenhead (at) gmail (dot) com.

Remember if you’d like to order your own copy, you can do that here.

The winner of The Rusted Chain giveaway is Amy from The Hay House! 

Congrats to both of you!

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Welcome to Crazy Town

First of all, my husband is a SAINT. Really. On any given day when I’m working on a project, he comes home to my messes, the house torn apart and everything looking different than it did when he left in the morning. When he takes business trips for days at a time – forget about it. I think he wonders if he’ll even come home to the same house.He’s been dealing with my DOCD/DADD (put the “

Our Sanford and Son deck

Well…it’s time to show you the before and after pictures of our deck clean up! As you know, I like to show you the good and the bad around here. And this one was BAD. After reading this, you will either be highly motivated…or just highly sleepy. ;) I showed you how we upgraded our deck just a bit last year by adding some new furniture and a faux pergola to the seating area. We LOVED it: I

Mood lighting in the kitchen

Well hello! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! My stepdaughter came home for fall break and we had a blast! The Bub was so thrilled…the two of them are 16 years apart, but you would never know it -- they play (and fight) like they are only a year apart.  ;) I finally finished up a project last week that was about five months past due. I installed under cabinet lighting in our kitchen years ago

Giveaway Weekend!

I am so excited to share this weekend’s giveaway with you! Beki from The Rusted Chain is one of my oldest and best bloggy friends. We talk like we’ve known each other for years. We have nicknames for each other (BADGER!) that no one understands but us – and am quite certain we annoy many people whenever we use them. :) And yet we've still never even met.  That is the beauty of blogging. :)Beki

Holiday with Matthew Mead!

YES. I’m thinking about Christmas. YES, I know it’s still October. I do this every year, and I don’t apologize for my GLEEEEEE. :)I do blame my son – the older he gets, the more magical the season gets. This Halloween will be the most fun yet, and I’m over the moon excited to see how he takes in this Christmas. We’ve been going through the holiday aisles at Lowe’s for weeks…and at Hobby Lobby for

A new pantry door

One of the many reason I love to blog is because I know some of you get excited about the little projects that I get excited about too. Or at least you act like you do. (That is so nice of you.)  ;) I was so happy about this one, I couldn’t wait to share it with you. I even took NIGHT pictures. Which means I REALLY wanted to show you, cause you know that’s just asking for horrible pictures. (

Giveaway Weekend!

Hello there! I hope your weekend is going great! I am so excited to share this giveaway with you, because I use this stuff and LOVE IT. BIG. FAT. love it. :) I’ve mentioned the Shaklee cleaning products before, and my friend Bonnie from Donahue Wellness is back again with a fantastic giveaway for a BUNCH of you! Whoohoo!I’m not just blathering on about these products – I really, truly love them,

Spooky in the house

Well, it’s about time for some Halloween decorating up in here! At least that’s what the Bub said – without the “up in here” lingo. OH my goodness – he is SO exited about Halloween this year! He’s been decorating all over the place. Which in his way is pulling everything out of the bins and lining it up along every. single. surface. in the house. Adorable. :) It feels like I just put the

My nekked kitchen windows

Sooo…do you remember that little bitty kitchen project I started ohhhhh…five months ago? With the help of some free Amex points, I was able to take the simple changes I had planned for the space and amp them up just a tad. :) Well, the summer-o-lazy hit, and then the closer we got to fall, the more obsessed I got with decluttering, so the kitchen has had very little DIY action lately. I’m

Our (tiny!) fall porch

We have what is probably the teeniest porch EVER. We didn’t even think about it when we picked out this house though – we loved the exterior so much. It’s another one of those things you realize later…it would be nice to have a porch to sit and rock on. And maybe to decorate.  :) But I have found ways to make it work for each season, and fall and Christmas are of course, my favorites. It’s

Giveaway winner and updates

Well hello there!! Hope you had a fantastic fall weekend! The winner of the Deeply Fabulous giveaway is (randomly drawn) comment #4 – Terrae01 of Minnesota!: Congrats! Give me a holla {thriftydecorchick (at) gmail (dot) com} and I’ll get you in touch for your two cutie bags!! I wanted to mention a couple updates as well – you may have noticed my little consult tab up above is missing, and

My great fall clean up

Well, Stink Eye Sister went and messed up all my grand plans. I was all set to hire her as my assistant, and she went and got another “real” job. WHAT-ev. Seriously, would you rather be at my beck and call, helping my clean my house, work on house projects and running my errands, or would you rather have a cushy, well-paying desk job?? WHAT-ev. I KNOW. I would totally pick the cushy job too.

Falling up the stairs

Last year, I was itchin’ to tackle a certain project for MONTHS. In fact, I researched it for quite some time – and in January I finally got up the courage and went after it…and I’m SO glad I did. :) That project was ripping the carpet off of our stairs and staining/painting the wood underneath. Hands down my favorite transformation in our house. Because we were lucky and had beautiful treads

Before and After Party: Buh bye ceiling fan

Hello there! Welcome to the October Before and After Par-tay! So…I got nothin’ against ceiling fans. Really. We have three of them in our house. Well – now two. :) We’ve always had one in our bedroom -- we hand picked it when we built the house: And pretty much since the first week we lived here, I’ve wanted to take it down. :) We used to use it fairly often, but over the past few years,

Giveaway Weekend!

Well, it really, officially started feeling like fall around here today. We woke to a dark, rainy day – it rained all morning and then turned into a crisp, beautiful 60 degree day. And now it’s just chilly enough to get the fireplace going.

PERFECT.

(But I LOVE rainy days.)  ;)

Because I’m feeling so completely fallified today, it’s been especially fun looking through the highlights for