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My Front Door: Before and After
My front door is my favorite thing about my house. I LOVE that it is the original door to my 1938 home and I LOVE that it is rounded. I love that it is solid wood. Thick and strong. But I did NOT love the orange color of the wood. I held off on doing anything at first because I didn't want to take it down and have to sand it clear down to the bare wood. And then after awhile I just got so use to looking at it that I forgot it was orange. Well, Better Homes and Gardens coming to my house changed things! I suddenly saw my house with new eyes and I realized the orange had to go. Somewhere along the time when we bought our house and now, I found out about Gel Stain. You don't have … {READ MORE}
Basic Lined Skirt: By Tammy
After talking about gathering techniques to get everyone ready for spring skirts, there is no way I could skip making a spring skirt for this series! Unfortunately, around here we don’t have spring weather yet, but there is no reason we can’t pretend a little! Besides, it goes perfectly with Stacy’s current “Point of View” series! This is one of my favorite skirts—lined, twirly, and best of all, no bulk at the waist. There are so many variations on this skirt out there, but I think it is a good idea to start with the basic, lined skirt and then you can change it up any way you would like. I love to make this skirt in tiered ruffles and use a different fabric for each tier.This design … {READ MORE}
Good Things Utah Clip
I think I did better this time around. I am pretty sure I only said "yep" 3 times instead of the 49 times like last time. I didn't get all the info in there but it went pretty smoothly. They are all so nice over there! Everyone from the producer, to the interns, to the hosts :) LOVE them!!! I am planning on posting a staining guide and also a painting guide that will be on my sidebar all the time. But not today. I got all the garbage bags full of laundry out of the garage last night so today is a laundry party. … {READ MORE}
My Better Homes And Gardens Photo Shoot
Part 2 of my story....... (You can read Part 1 HERE) *Thank you all for the support! I loved reading all the sweet comments yesterday. They made my day. I don't know why I was nervous to tell you all :) The next day the photographer and stylist came back to the house around 9 am for the shoot. When they came I was using my juicer to make homemade lemonade for lunch later. My 4 year old was sitting on the counter helping me peel the lemons. I had my hair curled but not fixed. I was in my PJs and no make up. Hey, they had seen me at my worst already so this was an improvement :) Plus the lemons covered up the old fridge funk. Laura, the stylist, ironed the wardrobe she brought for me … {READ MORE}
My BIG suprise, "The" project, and a DREAM come true
This post might end up being a little wordy but please read it all!!! I am normally a short and sweet and to the point kinda gal but there is a lot to tell and explain with this.And WARNING it might be all over the place too. I don't know where to start so I think I will go back to where it all began......... When I was growing up I was not normal. I wasn't girly. I would sneak into my dad's shed and get his tools. Then I would sit in the scrap wood pile and saw and hammer away. My first creations were "ducks" made out 2x4s. I think I was 5. When I was around the age of 10 I started a diary that I wrote in every single day until I got married. When I was 10 or 11 I started cutting … {READ MORE}
Rainbow Kid Garden
I am a BIG gardener!!!! I love it. It is my therapy. There is just something about being outside and digging in the dirt that makes me feel better. Calm. Relaxed. The fact that you can plant a tiny seed and it grows to be a plant that produces food will never cease to amaze me. It is a miracle. My boys love our big garden. They always say it is like grocery shopping in our back yard. They love to help so this year I thought it would be fun if I dedicated one section of the garden for a kid garden. Then I had the idea as I was looking through seed magazines that it would be even better to have a rainbow garden!!!! I know my boys are going to get a kick out of growing things like carrots and … {READ MORE}
Ruffles!!! By: Tammy
Michigan is finally beginning to show some signs of spring and we are so excited! With three girls, I am gearing up to make lots of spring and summer skirts. I love skirts for little girls—all of the advantages of shorts, but just a little fancier. Skirts are really easy to make and there are many patterns and tutorials out in Blog Land. Since so many of them are gathered in at least one place, I’d like to share some gathering techniques. This should be helpful for gathering lots of things, not just skirts. A gathering stitch is a straight stitch set to the longest length on your sewing machine. After gathering and edge, typically that edge is sewn to something else like the ruffle in a … {READ MORE}
Rainbow Bread
So I went to get my kids ready for school (which thanks to Mr. Day Light Savings Time it has been rough to say the least) and my second son asked "Mom, why are you talking to us in a grumpy voice?" Yep. That was the wake up call I needed to realize that my kids have been getting the short end of the stick. While I have been working on my "project" night and day, they have been getting the "leftover" me. The tired, and yes, grumpy me. So I decided to make a surprise while the 2 oldest were at school. I made rainbow bread! My boys are OBSESSED with St. Patrick's Day. I don't get it to be honest. But they love it. I haven't decorated. I didn't make them a green breakfast, I didn't even … {READ MORE}
Studio 5 clip
So my day was a bit crazy. I knew it was going to be a rough one when my baby pooped in the tub. I was trying to hurry and get ready and then had to disinfect him and the tub and then me. My sister came with me and while driving to Salt Lake, someone cut us off and to avoid an accident she slammed on the brakes. My tall lamp went flying and broke in half! I was dying. We were already running a titch late as it was. We stopped at the closest Home Depot (good thing there was one at every exit) and I bought some 1 minute epoxy. We go running into the studio late and with a broken lamp. Nice. I am frazzled and trying not to hyperventilate. I was able to glue it back together and it is actually … {READ MORE}
