A look back at some of my favorite close up images from the holiday season.
Can you believe that next week at this time will be Christmas?!?! Crazy how fast this month has gone......and the whole year quite frankly.
The weather has been extraordinarily warm here and Christmas day looks like it will be in the mid-fifties and sunny. Not typical weather for a day in central PA when most expect snow, but to be quite honest I'm totally fine with it. The older I get, the more I think I'd be perfectly happy living in a warm southern climate.
I've still got a few posts planned for next week, but I'm also planning some time for just sitting back and enjoying the season and time with family and friends. Since the holidays are falling on Fridays, this is it for the series this year. I'm guessing we all have a few more interesting things to keep us busy for a couple weeks!
So here is the final Friday Favorites of 2015. Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend my friends!
As a courtesy to the bloggers I've featured, please pin these images from their
own posts using the links provided. Thanks!
Good Friday morning, friends. I hope that your week has gone well!
This past week, I took a little social media break. If you follow me on Pinterest or Instagram you may have noticed that I wasn't really around. I don't know about you, but there are times when I feel like I am on inspiration overload. With so much to look at, it starts to get a little overwhelming and unenjoyable. Sometimes I like to step back and focus on my own projects and creating my own inspiration. Do you ever feel that way?
Hi everyone! Thank you so much for stopping by for another week of my Friday Favorites. I love sharing the things that have inspired me through the week in the hope that they might be something that you enjoy as well. I find that I am at my most creative when I am surrounded by things that constantly make me look at things in different ways.
There is a bit of everything here today including a Thanksgiving craft, some industrial farmhouse decorating ideas, and a little something for your taste buds.
Do you see anything here that is your favorite, too?
The hardest area of the home to declutter is the sentimental items that you store as keepsakes, but there are a few decluttering tips to keep the amount manageable and in order.
Welcome to the final post in our decluttering series! Today we are each discussing sorting through sentimental items like photographs and keepsakes.
In the book, author Marie Kondo suggests doing this category of possessions last because they are the hardest to get rid of. Through practice in decluttering clothes, books, and the other items in your home you should be more prepared for knowing what you should and shouldn't keep in terms of sentimental items.
Welcome to the final post in our decluttering series! Today we are each discussing sorting through sentimental items like photographs and keepsakes.
In the book, author Marie Kondo suggests doing this category of possessions last because they are the hardest to get rid of. Through practice in decluttering clothes, books, and the other items in your home you should be more prepared for knowing what you should and shouldn't keep in terms of sentimental items.
A little sanding and paint is all this vintage piece needed to be a rustic coat rack perfect for the entryway!
In case you weren't aware, today is Friday. Can anyone point me in the direction of where my week went?
After posting six (and a few times seven) days a week through September and into October, I think I finally mentally crashed and needed a bit of a break. The past few days of not posting has given me a chance to regroup and just relax a bit. I actually had a few minutes to spend reading some of my favorite blogs and browsing Pinterest, which doesn't happen much anymore.
I'm ready to enjoy the weekend and then get busy again next week. And just as a little FYI, it is looking like it is going to be a week devoted to things to hang on the wall. It wasn't intentional that all of my projects ended up falling under that category, but it happened. I think we all have some walls that could be decorated, right?
Technology is one area of your life that can become cluttered quickly. Whether it is your computer, cell phone, storage devices, or inbox, it is important to spend time decluttering regularly to keep the job manageable.
An area that I really seem to be struggling with right now is in technology. USB drives, camera cards, my computer desktop, cell phone, and even my Pinterest boards. We've been defining clutter as anything that overwhelms life and your home and keeps you from being productive. Does your technology world overwhelm you?
Hi Everyone. Can I say that I am super glad that today is Friday? It has been one of those weeks. You know the kind where you just can't wait for it to be over?
Heavy rains moved into my area on Tuesday and it put down well over five inches......a couple inches of which ended up in my basement. It was quite an unexpected shock because when I was in the basement at 4PM there was nothing, but by 6 the water was over the entire floor. Needless to say there was quite a mess, but luckily anything that can get ruined is stored up off the floor. It is just a job to get everything moved and dried out.
Learn how to create an easy DIY preserved leaf tree to bring a bit of nature indoors to decorate your home for fall.
Happy Sunday! I hope that your weekend is going well. Today is the next installment in our decluttering series. Have you been following along on the journey to finding what possessions bring you joy?
In case this is your first time here, each Sunday I'm joining some of my blogging friends in posting about my views about how to gain control over your clutter. Many of us are focusing on things that we learned from The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. Links to everyone participating appear at the end of this post.
A collection of over 25 different ways to use faux pumpkins to create unique fall decor.
One of the biggest sources of clutter in our homes is having an excess of accessories and beauty products that we never use. Learn the secrets of decluttering this area of your home and keep the clutter from returning ever again.
Welcome back to the third week in our series on decluttering and sparking joy. This week we are digging into our accessories and beauty products.
This is an area where I think many of us struggle with clutter and having an excess of things we don't use because accessories and beauty products are relatively inexpensive and we want to experiment with new things. Today's post will teach you everything you need to know to overcome this problem and I've created a few helpful printables to help you as well.
Happy Friday friends! I hope that you have all had an amazing week. This one was a busy one for me trying to get some projects and posts done. Next Wednesday I'm participating in a Farmhouse Fall home tour so much of my time has been spent trying to prepare for showing off a few spaces for you. I also finally got around to painting the Hobby Lobby pumpkins I purchased after Thanksgiving last year. They are looking fantastic and fitting right into my vision. Isn't it a great feeling when plans actually work out as you expect?!?!
The first place to start decluttering your home is in your drawers and closets. Sorting through your clothes to find what you actually wear and love can make a big difference and will make getting dressed in the morning easier! Read on to learn the tips to decluttering your wardrobe once and for all.
There are probably very few of us who don't have more clothes than we could ever possibly wear. It is said that we all wear just 20% of our clothes, 80% of the time and I completely believe that is true. Clothes are the easiest things to replace, yet seem to be one of the hardest to part with.
Happy Friday to you all. I hope your shortened week has gone well. I must say that I'm happy to see that the weekend is here again!
Today I'm back with another post on my weekly favorites. I hope you enjoy all the things I found interesting over the past week.
See you back here on Monday!
Before you sort through a single possession when decluttering your home, you have to understand what clutter is and how you want you space to look and feel when it is done. This first post in a six part series guides you through this important beginning step.
I always feel the need to declutter and organize in the fall. Something inside of me associates the season with new beginnings. A new school year has always signaled a fresh start. For that reason, our decluttering series is starting as we enter into the month of September.
When I posted a survey over a month ago, there was a resounding cry for a desire to learn about getting your life back on track. Ninety-seven percent of you who took the survey said that you are interested in decluttering. And over half of you are interested in the book that is taking the world by storm, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.
I always feel the need to declutter and organize in the fall. Something inside of me associates the season with new beginnings. A new school year has always signaled a fresh start. For that reason, our decluttering series is starting as we enter into the month of September.
When I posted a survey over a month ago, there was a resounding cry for a desire to learn about getting your life back on track. Ninety-seven percent of you who took the survey said that you are interested in decluttering. And over half of you are interested in the book that is taking the world by storm, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.
There seems to be a new trend in furniture of having chairs that are deconstructed. Rather than perfectly upholstered pieces, we're seeing chairs that look as though they are waiting for the next step in the upholstery process. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about the look. Part of me loves the pretty (aka expensive) Restoration Hardware chairs, but some make me feel like the trend has gone too far.
Learn how to transform faux flowers, leaves, and berries into realistic looking branches
to use for decorating your home.
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