A Little More Christmas Decorating

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Over the last couple of weeks we’ve done a little more primping and fluffing for Christmas. Mostly we’ve just added natural elements like burlap and greenery. Plus we’ve thrown in a few candles. Nice and simple.   Since we’re not hosting Christmas this year, I really haven’t planned out a full table setting. But I [...]

Behind the Scenes: Photographing for the Contest

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So part of the whole process of the Crafting With The Stars competition has been that all projects were anonymous. The idea behind that was so the projects that got voted for were the best ones…you know, so that big ginormous blogs couldn’t send their readers to vote for their particular project. To give the [...]

Pottery Barn Decorative Ledge Knockoff Reveal

Pottery Barn Decorative Ledge Knockoff Reveal

We are so excited to finally be able to show you this project! Because it was our entry in the first round of Crafting With the Stars {Season 3}, we had to keep it secret. Which was unbelievably difficult because we love to spill the beans about our projects as we go along. But here [...]

Repainting the Living Room & Dining Room – Again!

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Okay, so our living room and dining room have been repainted for the third time in less than two years. A little nuts, you say? Well, let’s just say it took awhile to get our groove going for this space. A Not-So-Quick Recap Our LR/DR takes up the entire addition on the back of our house. The [...]

More Living Room?!

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After a busy {but FUN!} long weekend away in Niagara Falls, we don’t have any new projects to report…at least not today.  Instead we will share what we came up with after briefly rearranging the living room (we have friends coming to visit this weekend…Am I the only one who feels the desire to give guests something new to look [...]

Quickie Post: Living Room

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So I am still being den-mommy to five little people, but thankfully I am feeling much better with only a residual cough leftover from that virus. With my nephews here we’ve done the zoo, gone out for dinner, bowled, watched my son’s baseball practice, visited the book store, jumped on the trampoline, built with Lego and played [...]

A Temporary Display, A New Rug & Chairs, Happy Mother’s Day!

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Happy Mother’s Day to all you mommies out there! (Love you, Mom!) My family accidentally forgot about Mother’s Day – but really I can’t blame them. You see, my sister is away so we have her two young boys staying with us until Wednesday…and I have caught the virus my girls had earlier this week [...]

Before and After: Our Living Room

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I know I’ve shown you some of these photos already. And maybe you’re sick of our living room and dining room makeovers? But when I was preparing a before and after photo document for our insurance company this morning (for proof we fixed everything after the ice damming), I realized it would make a great [...]

Our Bungalow in 2011

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Ahhhhh. The appraisal is finished. I am curled up on the couch with my babies vegging out today. Man, that was a cuh-razay 24 hours!  We cleaned, tidied & staged everything.  And by 4 pm yesterday we were exhausted! (Thank you so much Debbie for taking the kids yesterday afternoon – it was a huge help!!) [...]

Spring @ Chez Acheson

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The air is still a little crisp, but the sunny days have outnumbered the gray ones for the last week. The snow is gone and the crocuses are blooming. I can see the leaves of the tulips poking up through the half frozen garden dirt. Spring is finally here! Inside the house, we’ve been hard [...]