Create a Beautiful Home On a Budget
Easter is this Sunday! Are you looking for super-easy Easter and spring decorating ideas you can create in just a few minutes?
Then you are at the right place! Who has the time for elaborate decorations, right?
Here are 10 Easter and spring decor ideas that are so easy that you can make them even if you are DIY challenged!
All of these ideas will only take a few minutes to make, I promise. [Read more…]
Xylitol is the natural sweetener that tastes like sugar, has less calories, doesn’t create cavities, and has many other health benefits. Move over, sugar!
“Sugar is sugar.” Every time I see that deceptive commercial, I wonder how the actor must feel getting paid to tell a total lie: sugar IS NOT sugar, and most people know this by now, I hope.
High-fructose corn syrup is not the same as cane sugar, honey, or molasses.
I’ve recently been looking into all kinds of sweetener options — sugar, artificial sweeteners, and syrups.
I already wrote about agave nectar not being a good sweetener alternative, because agave syrup is as bad as high-fructose corn syrup. [Read more…]
I made this cute little DIY glitter house out of an upcycled toothpaste box! Making it was so much fun — and it didn’t take much time or skill, I promise.
You can make them in any color, so why not make one or several for spring decor?
I wanted to find a way to make making them way easier than the glitter house tutorials I found on the Internet, and starting off with a toothpaste box is the way to go.
You know me, I’m a saver. I save thousands of dollars a year and know so many tricks, I even wrote an ebook about all my frugal living tricks called From Frugal to Fancy.
I don’t only try to save as much money as possible by couponing and researching the best deals — I’m also passionate about green living and keeping trash out of landfills.
I save all kinds of things I think might come in handy eventually to reuse, so this challenge to reuse something for a DIY project was right up my alley.
Check out this easy Easter tablescape I created a few years ago for our Blue Cottage. I can’t believe it’s already Easter in a few days!
Come on in! The Blue Cottage is all decorated for Easter. Happy spring — we finally made it!
I decorated the living room for Easter: our dinner table, the mantel, and all around the room.
The most work went into my easy Easter tablescape.
