Randomness

First of all, I need to announce the lucky winner of the Pick Your Plum giveaway! That lovely lady is Kristen at kristenmadson (at) gmail (dot) com. (Please email me at thriftydecorchick (at) gmail (dot) com!) Congrats Kristen! What will you do with that extra $100?? This week I have all kinds of RANDOM running through my head – and some of that random will be spit out onto this post. :) First

DIY memo board, take two

Hey all! This week is going by SO FAST! Can you believe the weekend is almost here? If you’ve read this here blog for a while, you know I share the fails along with the good stuff. And sometimes there’s a project that’s not necessarily a fail --  it just doesn’t work the way I had hoped. Case in point – the DIY memo board in my office: I showed you how I made it back in January. After I

Above the cabinets

Hello all! How was your Easter weekend? I hope it was wonderful. :) We had a great one – as you can tell by the tuckered out Bub and dog: :) Adorable. I get asked a lot how to decorate one spot in particular – and it’s a toughie. High spaces in particular (plant ledges, above armoires) are hard, in my opinion. And the kitchen cabinets are no exception. Our cabs aren’t super tall – we

Giveaway Weekend!

Hello all! I'm so excited for this weekend’s giveaway! The timing of this one is funny, cause I’ve been thinking lately that it’s been a while since I’ve done a good crafty project. I’ve had this urge to pull out the glue gun, cause we all know glue gunning does the mind good. :)And then I found out about Pick Your Plum. It. is. FUN:Pick Your Plum...get it before your neighbor does.Pick Your Plum

Summer lovin’

Hello all! I have a quick, fun announcement about an upcoming linky extravaganza!! :) I’m joining up again with my bloggy gal pals Kate, Layla and Rhoda for FOUR fun linky parties sure to get you in the mood for the summer! We had a blast putting together our Holiday Home party, so we thought it fitting to do a warmer version: The linkies will be spread out over two weeks, so we

If I had a million dollars…

OK, I know I’m not the only one who daydreams about winning the lottery. I think about the healthy college and savings accounts we could create, paying off our house and of course, because I’m a house nut and nuts for our house, I think about all the projects we would do around here. It makes me giddy! But there’s a little bitty issue. We don’t play the lottery. And like we’d actually win if

Accidental redo

OK Squeezies. Hang in there with me on this post. I’m going to try to make sense of the way my mind works and the stream of thoughts that go on. Aren’t you so excited to get a look into how my decorating ADD happens? My mind can be a very scary place.  ;) As I mentioned last week, I’ve started a little redo of our playroom/loft. I can’t even pinpoint when it started, but it’s been in the works

Prettying up the ceiling fan

Helloooooo all! Hope you had a great weekend! A couple weeks ago I did a little project that only took about five minutes and buck to complete. So of course I had to show you. :) It all started last month when I finally addressed the massive pile of magazines I’ve been avoiding for months (years?) now. I saw an idea in one of my old BHG mags and then did a little researching online to see if

The gallery wall-to-be

Helloooo! How’s your week going? We were on Spring Break around here last week and I was an absolute slug. Really – when hubby is home all day I’m just completely worthless. All I want to do is sit around, eat A LOT and watch ridiculous amounts of reality TV. It’s AWESOMENESS. But by about Saturday at 5 p.m. last weekend, I my slothdom had run it’s course and I had to do something. And do

Giveaway winner and in between

Hello all! Whew…it’s been an insane couple of days. Lots going on (good and not so good) including news yesterday that we need a brand new (read: not cheap) air conditioning unit and $1000 in car repairs. Niiice. I’ve started an impromptu redo on a room in our home and I LOVE how it’s turning out…but for now it’s a mess. I’m in full “in between” mode around here -- doors off the hinges, wire

Covering the (nekked) windows

Remember those nekked kitchen windows? I loved how much light they let into our formerly dark space. I have lived, quite happily, with nothing on those windows for at least six months now. I decided I was going to keep them that way until I found just the right covering, at just the right price, that I loved. If I didn’t find all of the above, they were staying nekked…FOREVA!!! OK, that

Giveaway Weekend!

Hello and good day! :) It’s a been just beautiful here today, even though it was supposed to rain all day. I think I (finally) see flowers for our window boxes in the near future. Yippee! I have a great giveaway for you this weekend – the folks at Wuslu.com have such a fun site with fantastic deals. Yasmin, the owner of Wuslu, is a buyer in the interior design industry, and is able to negotiate

The sofa search (an update)

Well hello there! I think it’s high time I fill you in on our search for a sofa in our family room. I wrote about the impending purchase a couple of months ago, and I so appreciated all of your feedback on that post. As I mentioned one or 15 trillion times, our family room is an odd configuration of open layout, a wall of windows, a corner fireplace and a walk way into the rest of the house:

Before and After Party: A favorite!

Hello all! It’s time for the next Before and After Party! Whoot! This time I’m showing you an oldie (it’s been done for a few years now) but it’s one of my very, very favorite transformations in our house. LOVE. We have a fireplace in our bedroom, and yes, it’s fanfreakingtastic. Really. It was all hubby’s idea. The day we decided to add it in to our house plans, I was huddled in a corner,

Month in review (and a winner!)

Hello all! Hope you got a touch of spring this weekend like we did! It was SO nice today – just a bit insanely windy. I’ll take it though!! I’m back for another month in review, just in case you missed that one post.I know it would be awful, really. But first, I need to announce the winner of the Sentry Safe! The lucky chick is Katie Lott of Kate Congdon Designs! Yay, congrats Katie! Please