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Leaf peeping at a town green with a large gazebo and fall foliage, part of our fall bucket list

150+ Fall Bucket List Ideas With Free Printable

Fall is upon us and it’s time for a fall bucket list. These ideas include adventures, activities for homebodies, baking, crafting, and more.

Wooden bunk beds for kids in a honey wood tone with a full bed on bottom and twin bed on top with white bedding and colorful pillows and stuffed animals

A Pro Con List For Bunk Beds With Mostly Cons

I wanted to love the kids’ bunk beds, but alas, I did not. Sharing all the pros and cons of bunk beds after testing bunks vs. twin beds.

A kitchen pantry area with dark, charcoal painted floors and Photoshopped light blue striped curtains hanging in front of lower pantry shelves with open shelving above

Curtain Options For The Lower Kitchen Pantry Shelves

Exploring cafe curtain fabric and pattern options for the lower shelves of our kitchen pantry area, adding some color to the space.

A DIY gold lamp makeover with a Rub N Buff finish; task lamp sitting on a small wooden rolltop desk next to a plant

Thrift Store Lamp Makeover DIY Using Rub N Buff

A DIY lamp makeover using Gold Leaf Rub N Buff that adds age and patina to the thrifted find. Click for all the details and lessons learned.

New kitchen pantry shelves including a long, low bookcase filled with dry goods and open upper shelves with lesser used kitchen items like cake plates and a scale

Custom DIY Open Pantry Makeover Before And After

Before and after of an open shelf, DIY pantry makeover. Includes space for dry goods storage, lesser used kitchen items, cookbooks, and more.

A shed renovation progress pic with a new gable roof, shingles going on, and vertical siding being installed

Playhouse Project Update August 2025

Playhouse building progress for August 2025 including roofing, replacing a floor, framing, siding, installing a round window, and more.

A watercolor art print of an amaryllis flower in a pink/red color framed with a gold frame and hanging on the wall

Grandma Barb’s Watercolor Print In The Nursery

A grandmother’s creation in a nursery—a touching reminder that decorating with meaning brings soul and story into every corner of your home.

Playing with a home decor (art, succulent, shells, brass bowl, ceramic pot, brass swan) and creating a flat lay, an activity to help me find my creativity again

Strategies For How To Recover Your Lost Creativity

It happens. Your creativity is lost in the woods and you can’t find it. I’ve been there…often…and am sharing strategies to find it.

DIY shed to playhouse conversion before photo of old sheep farm shed

DIY Plans To Convert A Shed To A Kids Playhouse

Includes the floor plans for updating a shed into a playhouse along with a step-by-step outline for the project, from updating floors, to roof, and more.

Two terracotta saucers sitting on a black surface, the top one filled with seed starting mix and the bottom one filled with potting soil; a small flat of cucumber seedlings and a garden trowel sit beside the saucers

Seed Starting Mix Vs. Potting Soil: Which To Use?

When I started gardening I didn’t know the difference in seed starting mix vs. potting soil. Explaining the difference and why gardeners use both.

Dark green built-in bookcases filled with fiction books in both paperback and hardcover; a small black table sits in front of the shelves and holds a stack of books, potted houseplant, jar, and small brush

Tips For Decluttering Books To Downsize Your Collection

Need ideas for decluttering your book collection? This post has tips for decluttering books including fiction, children’s books, references, and more.

Testing all of the dark Minwax stains on samples of douglas fir wood; colors include Dark Walnut, Early American, Ebony, English Chestnut, Espresso, Honey, Jacobean, Mocha, Provincial, Red Mahogany, Red Oak, Special Walnut, and True Black

Comparing Dark Stain Colors On Douglas Fir Wood

Ever wonder what different dark stain colors look like on douglas fir? With and without wood conditioner? We show you ALL the colors in this post.

Organizing seeds in a plastic photo storage box turned into a DIY seed organizer, seed packets fill the photo boxes which are labeled by seed type and placed in the larger storage box; packets of seeds are spread out on the floor next to the photo boxes

How To Organize Seeds Easily In A Photo Organizer

Ideas and tips for how to organize seeds in a photo organizer. Create a DIY seed organizational system that works for you and the way your garden.

A dirt road during mud season in Vermont around early March, dirt road filled with ruts and water, snow banks on the side of the road, blue sky with not leaves or buds on the trees surrounding the road

A Country Girl’s Guide To Mud Season In Vermont

Just what is mud season in Vermont like and how to survive it? From sneaky tips to make it easier and ways to escape (spoiler…it involves maple).

The kitchen pantry zone before picture of our kitchen including a vintage cream jelly cabinet, low green bookcase filled with pantry items and jars, vintage cabinet hanging above the bookcase with storage baskets on top, and a stone blue tall cabinet for a microwave

Meet The Pantry Zone In Our Kitchen We Have Yet To Get Right

Meet our dysfunctional kitchen pantry zone, what’s not working, and the plans we’ve come up with to create a more beautiful and functional pantry.

A collection of seed packets spread across the black table top, small glass jar filled with beet seeds, a wooden dibbler on the table, and a pair of hands holding beet seeds in one hand while selecting a seed with the other hand

2025 Kitchen Garden Grow List

Sharing all the vegetables and varieties we are growing in our kitchen garden this season, focusing on production and fresh eating for our family.