Simple Projects Made With Autumn Leaves

Oh autumn, you’re so seductive. With your crisp mornings, alluring colors, turning leaves, and pumpkin everything, you entice us every time! I write this post as I start my afternoon ritual of lighting a three wick pumpkin vanilla spice candle to fill the air with its scent. :) Soon there will be an abundance of…

Weekend Reading

Friends, how are you? Well, I hope! I’m knee deep in a massive project, one I’m hoping to launch next month, so I’m working busily behind the scenes. It’s a project I’ve dreamed of finishing all year, and I can’t wait to share it with you. Travel and family obligations slowed my progress earlier this…

Black Tile Backsplashes Done Right

I’ve painted walls and furniture black, and installed black (and white) wallpaper, and bought black furniture, and used black hardware on cabinets, but I’ve never considered a black tile backsplash, until now. A tile backsplash is far more permanent than wallpaper or paint which is why I’ve hesitated, I mean, it’s stuck to the wall…

Weekend Reading

Hello! This weekend is a relaxing one for me, the kids are back in school so I’ve settled into my routine. The weather is still so warm so I’m off to a barbeque to hangout with some old friends today, and tomorrow I’ve got a date with a to do list I’ve been neglecting. Hope…

Weekend Reading

My friends, I’ve arrived! Today I’m in Cusco, Peru wandering around this old city, and tomorrow I’m attending a wedding as a guest of one of my dearest friends in a magnificent old hotel. I’ll be sharing scenes in my stories on Instagram! How exciting to be in a new country tasting the food, seeing…

Jewel Tones: Deep Greens

I’m really enjoying the last month of summer but always looking ahead to the next season. Entering fall, richer colors and jewel tones return to our attention: those deep greens, blues, wine and amethyst hues. In a library space I’m pulling together (slowly) I’m waffling between a deep green and a deep blue and these…

DIY: Criss Cross Vegetable Trellis

*This project brought to you in partnership with Arrow Fastener™ tools. It’s garden season! I don’t plant a big garden every year, usually just a few tomato plants, some green beans, maybe some squash and that’s about it. I do love having home grown tomatoes, especially cherry ones, they’re like candy to me and once…

Weekend Reading

Hello friends, how was you June? Mine was a little extra lazy as June should be, right? ;) Today I’m finishing up a garden DIY project that I’ll be sharing soon, it’s one of those kinds of projects where you have to wait for your vines to grow so you can photograph it. :)  Fellow…

Portugal: Exploring the Algarve

The Algarve is the southern region of Portugal, famous for its beautiful coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, and I spent four days exploring it in late April of this year. We were really fortunate with the weather, it was perfect sunshine in the 70s, all the more reason I’m an advocate for traveling to Europe…

Weekend Reading

It was a slow week on the blog, I needed to take some time off and focus on a few things behind the scenes. This year is flying by and I haven’t achieved certain goals that I set out to do in the beginning of the year, so I took a few days to get…

DIY: Diamond Hat + Coat Rack

I finished a fun little DIY project over the weekend. It’s been driving me crazy that I didn’t have a place to hang my backpack, hoodie, and hat each day, so I built a unique solution! Let me introduce you to a hat + coat rack I pieced together, painted, and hung behind the front…

Big Island Inspiration

Hawaii is a magical place that fills the soul and has healing properties. Every time I visit, I return with a little more aloha in my heart. Back in March, Matt and I took our teens on a vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii. I didn’t have any input in the details of this…

Weekend Porch Refresh

*in partnership with Lowe’s Over the weekend I finished up a porch refresh for a great friend of mine. Naomi and I met five years ago in a fitness class, she is a single mom who works full time to support her family. She has two kids in elementary school and no spare time to…

Dino & Heidi’s Flip

Happy weekend friends! I’ve been spending this week in Portugal, tasting the food and seeing the sights of small towns in the Algarve, and the capital city of Lisbon. Portugal is *filled* with inspiration, check out my Insta stories today with pictures of tile on the buildings around Lisbon and at the Tile Museum. Today…