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Simple and Inexpensive DIY Farmhouse Bead Strands
Farmhouse Beads Are Everywhere! They are definitely the home decor item of the moment. There are plenty of places to purchase them, but I want to show you how simple it is to make them for yourself. Supplies You only need 3 items, and 15 or 20 minutes to make a basic strand of farmhouse beads. You will need wooden beads, tassels, and some type of cording. I use leather cording or multiple layers of jute cording to make sure they are durable. If you want to spice things up, especially seasonally, you can add some glass beads, or multi-color wood beads. For example, you can do red…
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Farmhouse Dining Furniture and Rustic Light Fixture – ORC Week 3
Welcome back! This has been an exciting week for us with the delivery of both our new farmhouse dining furniture and rustic lighting fixture! I can’t wait for you to see the progress, but first a reminder of where we started on our One Room challenge™ journey. You can check out my week 1 post and see my plans for this room here, and my week 2 post where we painted, and painted, and then repainted here. Before I jump right in with this week’s update, I want to take a moment to say what an exciting experience this has been. I want to thank Linda and…
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Dining Room Renovation – Painting – Week 2 – ORC
Welcome back! If you are just joining us for the One Room Challenge, you can check out our plans here. This week was painting week for us and the paint colors didn’t exactly go as planned, but in home renovation isn’t that usually the case! If you remember, the Chinese Porcelain color from PPG Paints is my inspiration for our room. So with such a rich wall color, I wanted a neutral for the ceiling. I chose Alpaca. It’s a beautiful warm grey from Sherwin Williams and I have used it in other rooms in our home. I thought it would be the perfect paint color for the dining…
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Farmhouse Dining Room – ORC – Week 1
My farmhouse dining room concept and inspiration for the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge™.
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I signed up for the One Room Challenge.
My “before” picture for the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge.
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Baseball Field Birthday Cake
Hi Everyone. I hope you have as much fun making this baseball field birthday cake. But even more fun than making the cake was watching the boys from my son’s baseball team choose which candle on the cake represented them. I placed the candles as close as possible to the field positions, with an extra candle for the batter and a runner at second to get 11 candles. This cake is actually easier than it looks and you begin with a simple round cake on a cake board. I used this pan and this cake board. Next, to make the shape, use a bread knife to cut…
