Inspiration Station

Because I Like You…and Christmas – FREEBIE ALERT

PROMOTION HAS ENDED. HOPE YOU GOT YOUR CARDS! 🙂 I don’t usually post deals and other such things, but because this is so awesome, I had to share with you all. You can get 35 TOTALLY FREE CHRISTMAS CARDS right now from Minted. Here’s how. 1. Register for a new Minted account which will automatically place a $25 credit on your order through my referral link. (To be honest, I also get a credit, but that doesn’t take away your

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November 7, 2015
Loving Here

Don’t Forget About The Fiverr Freebies

UPDATE: The promotion for a free gig is over, but you can still purchase regularly, here.  This post is sponsored by Fiverr in partnership with Kasai Media. All opinions are my own.  Remember when I talked about starting the #FiverrHustle business challenge, here? Well, I’m back with an update: it’s time to order your freebies! “But there isn’t anything that’s truly free,” you say. My answer is that if you sign up for an account with

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November 4, 2015
DIY

Seven Tips and Tricks – Everything You Never Thought You Needed to Know About Upholstering Chairs

Yesterday I shared about the tricky process of reupholstering the backs of our dining room chairs. Today, I’m back with a few additional tricks we learned along the way that I think might be helpful to anyone else tackling this project. We’re not professionals at all, so there was a lot of trial and error, (maybe more errors than we’d care to admit…), so here are seven of our best tips. 1. Protect the fabric!

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October 30, 2015
DIY

How to Reupholster Dining Room Chairs

The seats are easy, comparatively speaking. I went over those steps, here. The back is where we found things to get tricky, so I’m going to attempt to break down what we did. The first step is to make sure your fabric, foam, and support strips are cut and arranged. Then, start stapling one layer at a time. The first piece, the back of the chair, needs to be small enough that it won’t interfere

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October 29, 2015
Loving Here

Table Touch-ups

Sometimes, projects don’t turn out as well as we expected. In the case of the table, it’s a little mix of both because while we are really pleased with how it all turned out, there were some issues that developed over the past two years we’ve used both the table and the pew. See that yellow coloring? We’re not sure why, but there were some off-colored areas that started to show through the white paint.

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October 26, 2015
Family Life

Weekend Rewind: Finally Fall Edition

Am I the only one who seems to be stuck in summer? I keep writing August as the month every time I have to write the date on something. I’m not sure why…I just can’t believe we’re halfway through October, maybe. Or maybe I feel like our life sort of stopped when Will was born and I’ve been living in some sort of secluded bubble where time moves extra slow or something? Either way, this

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October 20, 2015
DIY

The Dining Room Chairs Are Done—Finally!

Because it’s been a week since I teased about our dining room chairs being done and I still don’t have our last DIY post on that ready (Will and I have been sick all week so not much has been accomplished (other than lots of snuggling and sniffling, and some crying on his part), I figured I should go ahead and just share the photos of our finished chairs. Because they are awesome, and you

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October 17, 2015
DIY

Sweet Seats – ReDoing Our Dining Room Chairs

Our dining table chairs are finished! We already discussed the process of fixing up and painting the chairs, in this post, so you can go there to see all the steps up to this point. We finally got to Joann’s to buy fabric and we ended up going with a single option in a neutral color, light gray and white, to tie everything together. I think it worked really nicely and the pattern was subtle and

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October 12, 2015
Loving Here

11 Years Ago…

Lately I’ve been amazed by life. (If mushy-gushy stuff isn’t your thing, you might want to skip this post. However, there are some gems of old photos at the bottom…) How amazing is it that 11 years ago today, sixteen-year-old-Wyatt asked fifteen-year-old-me to be his girlfriend while we were huddled up together on a school bus, and today, I have these wonderful, wonderful boys as my family? I mean really, we were so, so young

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October 9, 2015
Loving Here

Challenge Accepted! Fiverr Campaign

UPDATE: The promotion for a free gig is over, but you can still purchase regularly, here.  This post is sponsored by Fiverr in partnership with Kasai Media. All opinions are my own.  Since Will was born, I’ve been working less and “mom-ing” a lot more…but now that we’re STARTING to get into a little more of a groove during our days together, I’m thinking about how I can transition from being a “work-at-home wife” to a “work-at-home

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October 1, 2015