Come One, Come All to the Mane Event

AHHH!  My baby is one! I can’t believe how fast this past year flew by and over the weekend we got to celebrate the ‘mane’ man with a carnival style party.  You may be wondering how we pick the birthday party themes….well, Will was pretty easy.  For his first birthday we went with a farmyard […]

LJ’s Birth Story

***DISCLAIMER –  We celebrated our third son, LJ yesterday as he turned one year old.  I had always planned to share his birth story and his first birthday seemed most appropriate.  This post does contain scenes from a birth…and in the words of my doctor, “birthing a baby is messy” so please be warned.   […]

A Boy Mom’s Best Friend {HomeRight SteamMachine Plus Giveaway}

Today, we are going to talk about something that all boy moms across the universe understand - little boy's bathrooms. Even after you are finished with the potty training years, boy's bathrooms need a certain kind of attention.

Warning: It's about to get real over at the blog. So, if you don't want to read real talk, you might want to just click on over and scroll down to the giveaway. :)

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DIY Bookcase Dollhouse {That Might Look a Bit Familiar} #GiveAHome

Call of the search parties!  Lindsay has been found!

I'm embarrassed to admit that it's been nearly two months since I wrote a post on good 'ole Makely. I've had a lot of outside projects going on - taking over a big responsibility in my roller derby league, coaching two team of Destination Imagination kids (one of which won 1st place in our region and is going to the Texas state competition), and heading our elementary school's talent show.

Since I haven't been working on my house in the last few months, I decided to just disappear from the blog for a while.  I didn't want to post stuff just to post stuff, so I chose to post nothing at all.  And then, I decided I needed a really awesome project to be my jump back into the Blogosphere.  I think I found it:

It's a DIY dollhouse from a bookcase that looks just like my house! Come on over to see all of the details and get close up looks of each of the rooms. Click here!

    

 

A Bit of Sweet

I am SOOOOO excited to share this video with you. I hope you love it as much as I do….

My Go To Gift (hint hint Monrovia!)

DISCLAIMER: Today’s post is sponsored by Monrovia, but my love for their plants is all my own! Every year this happens. Multiple times a year. Jeremy knows it is coming….my birthday, Easter, Mother’s Day, anniversary, just because….and sometimes (ok, ok, most of the times) he is at a loss.  What does he buy me?  The […]

How to change a Toilet Seat

This is gonna be gross.  Fair warning. Recently Will brought me his toilet seat.  He said, “Here Mom….I’m gonna need a different one of these please….and a fruit roll up.” At first glance, it seemed fine but when you opened the lid….the seat was indeed missing.  Not that I thought the one that he handed […]

Kiss Me I’m Irish

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! Are you wearing green?  Are you getting lots of pinches or are you the prowler who doles them out to the folks who aren’t in the green swing of things?  I tend to completely forget the days (they all run together when you have kiddos) and somehow I always wear […]

How we saved on our new appliances

A few weeks ago I mentioned that we saved some major cash when we were appliance shopping and I thought I would come back to ya to share exactly what we bought for our basement kitchen, how we scored big, and more tips on saving on appliances. Obviously this may not apply to all areas, […]

Fun (and Fury) with Logos

Ahh, logos. For design geeks like me, the way a logo and website design comes together can be a lot of fun to witness. But lately, I’ve been dealing with the most difficult client I’ve ever had, and I find myself really struggling not to slap her. This client? You know her. She’s the one writing this […]

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A Crate Date

When I was pregnant with LJ, I decided that it was high time to start going on little mini dates with Will.  He was old enough to understand that it was special alone time with Mommy and that we would be doing fun things and having special treats (the kid thinks a Gatorade is special […]

A Behind The Scenes Look

When we revealed the bathroom makeover, I am pretty sure it was kinda of a nonchalant deal.  Kinda like…oh yeah, we gave our bathroom a makeover…no biggie…it required paint and a little elbow grease….not even a hiccup in the blog world….but to us it was a huge deal.  It was gonna be the first time […]

Marsala Monday

It’s 2015 and Pantone announced the color of the year was an earthy wine color called Marsala.  I gotta admit that I cringed a little when I heard the news.  This is not really my favorite color in the universe….it’s very robust and grounded (I’ve heard some grosser descriptions…blood clot red? eww.)…and I tend to […]

Our Favorite Tools

One of the most popular requests is a post all about TOOLS.  What is our favorite?  What would we recommend?  What is a starting tool kit?  What will we actually use?  What can I buy for my husband/my dad/myself/my sister that will be actually useful?  Well, your wish is my command because today we are […]

Interrupting Rain

It figures. As soon as I come back from beautiful, sunny weather in San Francisco: … Atlanta has an identity crisis and freezes, rains, and warms all within the same week. To be fair, I hear other parts of the country are going from 65 to 30 degrees (and back again) too, so I suppose there’s not […]

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Monday Madness

Happy Monday, folks. After a week of no posting, I’m anxious to give you guys some updates. But, since this: …is currently going on outside of my house right now, there isn’t much time between chainsaw noises, yelling, and dog barks (that are also setting off my neighbor’s car alarm) to form coherent sentences. So, […]

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The Playroom Rug

I’m just gonna apologize right now.  I didn’t have time to white balance these photos so everything seems a little off. The good news is…you get to see the playroom rug! We went with the GREEN! I’m very predictable aren’t I?  I didn’t have the guts to do the orange and the rest just seemed […]