Check out this easy Easter tablescape I created a few years ago for our Blue Cottage. I can’t believe it’s already Easter soon!
Come on in! The Blue Cottage is all decorated for Easter. Happy spring — we finally made it!
5 Easy Ways to Limit Our Impact on the Planet and Create Positive Changes
When it comes to sustainable, green living, we can either ignore the fact that our earth’s resources are limited or make a positive impact for the next generations. Here are five easy ways to limit our impact on the planet.
As parents, we all want to raise healthy, happy children, but parenting has become infinitely harder now that we have information about the latest and greatest at our disposal every second of the day thanks to Facebook, smartphones, iPad, and Aunt Millie who emails us about the dangers of Pink Slime.
The sheer volume of information out there about the right and wrong way to parent and keeping our family healthy is enough to make your head spin.
We are inundated with daily news alerts about something else that was found to be toxic or unhealthy.
That avalanche of information is an added burden our parents didn’t have to deal with when they raised us, but it’s also an opportunity to react and make positive changes right away.
Regardless of socio-economic status, you can make a positive difference today, every day.
You don’t have to be rich to be able to make an impact.
In fact, having less money forces you to make smarter buying decisions, and as we know, we all vote — and make our voice heard — every time we buy, wear, or eat something.
I personally find that empowering instead of discouraging. [Read more…]
The Lazy Guide to Painting a Bookcase
The Lazy Guide to Painting Furniture
I have a small storage room in the back of our house — that I call the Blue Cottage because it’s blue and decorated like a little cottage — that has never really received much love since we moved in years ago. [Read more…]
Easy DIY Hutch Makeover With Chalk Paint
Let me show you how to create this hutch makeover with chalk paint. Repainting furniture with chalk paint is so satisfying because you can start painting right away. There is no need to prep the piece with sanding beforehand.
Easy Hutch Makeover With Chalk Paint
What would you do with six hours of free time?
I had hours of time a few days ago, and I used it to get out my Annie Sloan Chalk Paint® can and finished painting our hutch in the living room.
I had painted part of it about a year ago to take picture on it for my Etsy store — I wanted a spot for pictures with a white background — but I never liked the look of the distressed, off-white lower part and the crisp white upper part of the hutch.
See what I mean? Not pretty.
Country Cottage Decorating Ideas With White & Brown Accents
Are you wondering about the country cottage decorating style? I decorate with cottage and farmhouse decor in our Blue Cottage.
The nice thing is that decorating with white and brown decor can be combined with many other styles very easily.
Country Cottage Decorating With White and Brown
I could look at pretty pictures of country cottage decor and farmhouse decor on Pinterest all day.
I recently noticed how much I pin pictures of white rooms with wood accents.
There is just something soothing about a mostly white or off-white room and brown accents from furniture, wood beams, or home decor items.
Here are a few of those pictures of cottage decor with white and brown accents. Let’s start with a super-cute cottage:
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