Hey, there and happy Friday on a long summer weekend after the 4th! Hope y'all are having a good week so far and ready for the weekend. It's been a hot one this week in Georgia, no surprise there. Today's Feature Friday is a blog I've just discovered, The Wicker House. Meet Emily, from a small town in Idaho, who lives in this adorable 1924 cottage home with her family. I love these vintage homes and Emily says her style is laid-back and casual with Coastal, Cottage, Farmhouse, and Bohemian blend. Such a cute house and I think y'all will enjoy seeing it too!

Ok I have been putting off todays post for way way too long. It’s almost been a year since I got to visit the 2015 HGTV dream home thanks to Delta Faucet. Can’t believe it’s been this long. And oddly enough it’s my second most popular post of all times. Yeah really! Go figures when...

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Hey there, I’m glad you are back to see the rest of my flooring reveal of the gray bamboo hardwood floor called Pearl City Click Bamboo. In case you missed it, HERE is our master bedroom (more HERE and HERE to find out why I chose the Pearl City Click Bamboo from Lumber Liquidators and how I put it in.)...

{UPDATE: you can see my daughter’s new bedroom by clicking HERE} Like I mentioned in my last post, I received an email from HGTV and as I browsed through the links of inspiration, as they call it, I ended up clicking on “Best of Rate My Space: 25 Colorful Rooms” … picture 18 is...

I’m not going to lie, I was a little scared of participating in this series and I told Ursula that I’m not sure I’m the right person for this. While my house always looks clean, I’m not going to ask you to open my closets and drawers. Some are more organized than others.And my life...

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It’s been all about the bedroom in the last couple of posts but today I have something new to share with you in our living room. I’d been getting increasingly annoyed with my beloved dog table. It was in the way most of the time when my kids were trying to sit down and I...

On this page, you can find items that I have in my home and other favorite finds from fashion to decor and to pet-related items. (This post may contain affiliate links from which I will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Click here to read my full disclosure policy) Here are my latest...

How was your weekend? I hope as good as mine. I spent some great time with awesome friends who came to visit us for some skiing. They couldn’t have ordered better weather. Check this out: I know spring is right around the corner and most of you guys can’t wait to see some warmer weather...

I’ve had a lot of posts about gold lately and actually can’t wait to write about silver today which was my first love! I mean what’s not to love, it’s shiny and I love shiny things. Now I still want my gold urchin or sputnik for our dining room and so I have to explain...

I guess this is the week of kids bedrooms. In my Monday’s post (click HERE if you missed it) you got to see an adorable nursery and today I’m showing some small changes I have made to my son’s room. I still want to change some more things though. He has simply outgrown the way his...

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Here are some random things about my family and our home: • I was born and raised in Germany and my entire family is still in Germany. My home town is the beautiful Bavarian city

So today I finally have my organized walk-in closet makeover to share with you. Now if you are thinking that I ripped out everything, then I have to disappoint you. I know that the standard wire shelves (these are available at Home Depot) are hated very much in the design community but ripping them out was...

Ok I have been putting off todays post for way way too long. It’s almost been a year since I got to visit the 2015 HGTV dream home thanks to Delta Faucet. Can’t believe it’s been this long. And oddly enough it’s my second most popular post of all times. Yeah really! Go figures when...

{Update: you can read the tutorial HERE now} How was your weekend my friends? Did you take all your Halloween decor down? I’m still working on it but almost done. Did you notice something new around here? I thought I’d sparkle it up a little for the Holidays with a header and button change. Do...

Dark Blue Teenage Girl Room with boho touches and crafting area

Find out what my little trick is for these affordable painted gray and white horizontal striped curtains using Ikea Merete curtains.

Sorry for the silence this week, I just was so busy the past weekend. It’s wrestling season and I spend most of my weekends on the bleachers . I also came down with an awful head cold and just needed to rest a little bit. And because I have been sitting around more than usual,...

This is a design for a Gender Neutral Nursery in orange, grey and white, featuring woodland creatures.

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{UPDATE: you can see my daughter’s new bedroom by clicking HERE} Like I mentioned in my last post, I received an email from HGTV and as I browsed through the links of inspiration, as they call it, I ended up clicking on “Best of Rate My Space: 25 Colorful Rooms” … picture 18 is...

Here are some random things about my family and our home: • I was born and raised in Germany and my entire family is still in Germany. My home town is the beautiful Bavarian city

This home is what pied-a-terre dreams are made of. Tucked inside is a subtle, elegant color palette reminiscent of the Chicago skyline, striking art, and a master bathroom that we could honestly l...

Ain't no doubt about it, that's one cuckoo bird. Dunno what time your alarm clock sounded this morning, but I was awoken at 2:55 am by tornado sirens. I flew outta bed looking every bit as crazed as the little pink bird above to check the weather...and, okay, to see if quite possibly they cancelled school for a severe storm. No go. And doncha know I couldn't fall back asleep. Which left me feeling a little tired and blue kinda like the cuckoo bird below. Now doncha go and take me the wrong way, I love that quite little bird. Especially since it's every bit the opposite as it's feisty young creator. However, once my second grade students starting putting the finishing touches on their cuckoo clocks and they started filling the drying racks with their masterpieces, my attitude quickly changed. I mean, just look at these guys! It's been a long project but I'm totally nuts, er, cuckoo over it. A flock of Cuckoo-Bird-tasticness. We began this lesson before Christmas with an introduction to Germany. From there we chatted all about the history of cuckoo clocks which I shared on What I Wore this Week #43. Ya'll might also recall I even crafted a Cuckoo Clock Frock. To begin creating their own wooden cuckoo clocks, the students began by painting two faux wood papers with brown paint and texture combs. The following art class, the students used one piece of paper to cut a loom and the other paper to weave with. This was pretty easy for them as these guys are the ones who wove the Croco'Nile Puppets last year. Once the weaving was complete, we began working on our Roman Numeral clock faces. This was a big time math lesson for the kids and they enjoyed it. I'm lucky that my school has a dye cut machine for the clock hands as cutting out miniature clock hands would have driven us all cuckoo. The next couple of art classes were spent in Cardboard Printing Town. The students used 1" X 2" pieces of cardboard and some yellow paint that I added gold glitter to (I'm currently on this kick where I add that super fine glitter to all of the paint. I want everything to be sparkly!). We had a big time chat about patterns. I had tri-folded their 12" X 18" piece of construction paper and explained to them that what ever pattern they printed in the first column had to be repeated in the following two. We also had to have a chat about the dif between printing and painting as some of us were using our pieces of cardboard like a palette knife and just painting the paper gold (I'm not the only one addicted to sparkle). I have found the best way to explain the dif is this: printing is when you put something down and you pick it back up; painting is when you put something down and you move it all around. Or something like that. Once all of the pieces were complete, we were ready to assemble our clocks. We began by cutting the top of our weaving so it would resemble a house and glued it to the center of our printed paper. From there, we added our roof, a door for our birds and our clocks. The kids had a lot of fun coming up with what their version of a cuckoo bird would look like. Some added a feather for the tale. All of them zigzag folded a piece of paper that served as their pop out. After that, a symmetrically cut piece of paper (which we called the "bottom decoration") and a bottom ledge was added. Some kids were inspired by the cuckoo clock visuals I had hanging up to create a little Black Forest scene to the bottom ledge. I love the flapping wings and the wonky pine cones. For our final step of adding the pine cones, I brought in some pine cones from my yard. I placed several on the tables to inspire the kids. These were attached by a couple of strings and, viola! our Cuckoo Clocks were complete. The kids were so thrilled by the end result that several asked if we were now going to create real clocks. You know, like with whittled birds and working clock mechanisms. Yeah, um, no. I do believe I'm cuckoo'ed out. And now I believe Ima go and catch up on some much needed sleep. Until next time, enjoy the rest of your week!

I’m not going to lie, I was a little scared of participating in this series and I told Ursula that I’m not sure I’m the right person for this. While my house always looks clean, I’m not going to ask you to open my closets and drawers. Some are more organized than others.And my life...

Its my favorite of all blogging days! Its Room Reveal day!!! YEAH! If you’ve been following along all month then you are totally aware of what is going on here. If you're a newb then

I know I wanted to be done with this cuckoo clock a long time ago but then the beach vacation happened! It’s finally done and hanging in Lilly’s room. Is it my taste? No, but it was a collaboration between my dear little 5 year old Lilly and me. Compromise is key here! And if...Read More »

Here are some random things about my family and our home: • I was born and raised in Germany and my entire family is still in Germany. My home town is the beautiful Bavarian city

I’m not going to lie, I was a little scared of participating in this series and I told Ursula that I’m not sure I’m the right person for this. While my house always looks clean, I’m not going to ask you to open my closets and drawers. Some are more organized than others.And my life...

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In this home tour I am mixing colors into a neutral home. Our home's base layer consists of a lot of consists of a lot of white, ivory and greys.

Today I’m writing about my daughter’s lamps that I never got a chance to post about yet. If you remember correctly I bought a $3 brass swing arm lamp at the thriftstore a while ago for my daughter’s room. After that I was on a mission to find another matching swing arm and I just...

In this home tour I am mixing colors into a neutral home. Our home's base layer consists of a lot of consists of a lot of white, ivory and greys.

Dismantling a sofa might be the only way to fit it into your place and in this post, I am showing you how to cut a sofa apart to fit it through a door!

Ok I have been putting off todays post for way way too long. It’s almost been a year since I got to visit the 2015 HGTV dream home thanks to Delta Faucet. Can’t believe it’s been this long. And oddly enough it’s my second most popular post of all times. Yeah really! Go figures when...

Today I want to share an amazing, adorable and stylish nursery that belongs to one of my Etsy customers. Rachelle bought my gold polka dots for her daughter’s nursery and I don’t think I could love her space any more. It’s just so darling. The chandelier (click HERE) in the space is from another Etsy shop called DuttonBrown and...

I haven’t been doing much for spring decorating because I was decorating outside for the HomeDepot Patio Style Challenge. Just some little changes inside here and there. Let me show you. Living Room The green leaf pillow is actually a bed pillow sham that I bought last summer. This is the first time I’m using...

I am going to Switzerland in September. To say I am excited about this trip is like saying the Pope is Catholic. It’s an understatement. I can hardly wait. There is a village on the western edge of the Bernese Alps where I claimed home for several years growing up, but haven’t been back since...Read More

I can’t really call this a reveal because I had the hardest time photographing this space and I have to figure out how to take a picture of what I did with the window yet. Ha, just realized that this is not a good sentence to open this post but I really wanted to show...

So so so it’s Friday! And after my boring (but hopefully helpful) post on Wednesday, I want to talk about some decor things again. First of all my daughter painted me a piece of artwork (which my Instagram followers saw already) and I ADORE IT. She is so proud that I hung it up in...