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Goodwill Goods, Grimaces, and Giddiness
If you have read our blog for the past year or so, there’s one thing you know. Goodwill + Katie B + me (+ John with video camera) = all kinds of ridiculousness. This time we literally ran around the...
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Total Basket Case
Shablam. This is the story of making an old basket into a pendant light using just this $10 thrift store basket that we found along with two other simple supplies. So allow me to further illuminate the...
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All Aboard The Train Board
Can I get a choo choo? As promised via our little Instagram/Facebook sneak peek yesterday, here’s the story of how we made a little train board for Clara. Why a train board? Well, Clara is nothing...
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How We Make Our Videos
You may have noticed that we share the occasional video or two… or 80-ish, if you’re counting things on our video page: And just like we did with this post with our Photoshop tips, I’m finally back to...
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We’re about to get video happy up in this hizzy. It’s once again time for a video house tour since it has been about six months since the last one and lots has changed since then. So here it is. Ten...
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Accidental Upgrade
You guys get extra credit for being especially perceptive, because as some of you have noticed, we got a new camera (we weren’t paid or perked, we just bought it with our own benjamins for reasons I’m...
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Finally! Some Book Project Sneak Peeks…
One of the things our publisher does is have each of their authors create a short video about their book. A movie trailer of sorts – but for a book. Artisan suggested we hire a little film/editing crew...
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It’s In The Bag
So. My basement workshop. I owned up to how messy it was a few months ago. Then building Clara’s dollhouse prompted me to tidy it up a smidge – as in, look you can actually see some of the floor. And...
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Another Hands On Pumpkin Project
Since Clara’s still a few years off from knife-wielding age, we still scratch our heads each year for a toddler-friendly way for her to be involved in the pumpkin decorating process. When she was 5...
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Live From Richmond, It’s…
…the third week of December! Okay, maybe that’s not as catchy as the opening to SNL, but for all y’all (yup, I said it) who follow our Instagram pictures (and who have requested the videos to match the...
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Breaking Down Our $57 Board & Batten
Yesterday you saw how our board & batten project came out for the Pinterest Challenge, so today we’re back with the full tutorial shebang. And hold onto your safety goggles, it’s 2,000 words long....
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A Full Tour Of Our Showhouse On Video
Here we are, folks. After over a year of planning, second guessing ourselves, more planning, sweating, and filling our car with vases and egg chairs, we’ve reached the end of the Homearama Showhouse...
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Our DIY Newborn Photos
You guys have asked some questions about taking our own newborn photos, making Teddy’s birth announcement, taking Clara’s four year photo & making her annual video, and what I got for Mother’s Day...
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Adding DIYed Pull Out Basket Drawers In The Kitchen
Remember how we had a trash compactor in our kitchen? Remember how we removed it waaaaay back in March? Well, we have officially filled the void with some slide out baskets. Only took us three months....
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How To Tape, Mud, And Sand Drywall
Over the weekend we wrapped up our how to hang drywall adventures in the laundry room. It was a humbling experience, but we’re feeling nothing short of glorious about how it turned out. In fact Sherry...
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Hello? Is This Thing On?
Well, last week marked a year since we took our big blog break. We didn’t really know what to expect would happen after stepping away from the blog last fall, and we certainly didn’t expect all of the...
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A Teachers Lounge Makeover, Just In Time For Back To School
Kids going back to school means that teachers and staff are going back too, so we were psyched to make their return a little brighter for one local public school who reached out to us for help with...
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How We Organized Our Kitchen Cabinets & Drawers: A Video Tour
The kitchen post train is pulling into the station once again, this time with a look behind the scenes doors & drawers to show you what we put where. Where’s the trash? Where are the knives? What...
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Now that our kitchen remodel is wrapped up, it felt like a good time for a (long overdue) video house tour. Our last one was nearly three years ago (you can watch it here) and there really wasn’t much...
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New Video House Tour!
It surprised us to realize it has been nearly two years since our last video house tour. And we were even more surprised to realize how much our house has changed in that time! In my head, we hadn’t...
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