I received products from BeddingStyle.com for my review. All opinions are my own. Our master bedroom has been a depressing catch-all kind of room for many years now. I recently decided to give the bedroom a mini makeover with new curtains and bedding from BeddingStyle.com. For my review, I received Heritage Landing Ivory Window Treatments, Perry Ellis Plum Solid Sheet Set, Candice Olson Ventura Maze Duverlet and Shams, and last but not least, a Candice Olson throw pillow. Heritage Read more [...]

*I was sent items from Minimus. All opinions are my own. For years I've carried around a large purse. On occasion, people have picked up my purse to move it out of their way and been shocked at how heavy it was. I've heard "What do you keep in there? Bricks?" on multiple occasions. I like to be prepared, and in the past the best way I knew of to be prepared was to keep too much stuff in my purse. Having emergency items in my purse has helped me out in so many situations. I once had a bra Read more [...]

*There is an affiliate link in this post. My 3.5 year old nephew loves race cars. He gets to go to the local race track to watch the races. He loves matchbox cars and is always racing them or using his tow-truck to take his cars into the pits to get fixed. We have a town map for matchbox cars that he always tries to race on, but the roads on it are pretty short and curvy so it's hard to pretend-race on. I thought that a similar mat but with a regular race track shape would be perfect for him Read more [...]

I received products from Rust-Oleum for my review. All opinions are my own. When my husband and I married, 8 years ago, one of the gifts we receive was a patio furniture set. The set includes a patio table and four chairs. The chairs have metal frames and some sort of resin canvas fabric. After 8 years of Oregon rain and sunshine, the paint on the frames had started to crack and peel. Overall the set was still in good condition though. I decided to try to repaint the frames using Rust-Oleum Stops-Rust Read more [...]

*I was provided with tape from Scotch. All opinions are my own. A few years ago I saw these spikey-looking duct-tape flower pens somewhere on the internet. I liked the general idea but wanted to create something that looked more like a real flower. I knew this would mean creating rounded petals instead of pointy ones. I tried following the pointy-flower tutorial but editing it with round petals but it was a disaster. I tried again a few weeks ago, and made a mess yet again. I tried for a third Read more [...]

I received product from HevVin Décor for my review. All opinions are my own. I have recently taken a liking to shabby chic/farm vintage décor. In the past I have struggled to define my décor style. I liked a little bit of everything but was afraid to commit because I often change my mind. I am not sure what has changed in the last few weeks, but I am no longer holding back in decorating our house. Our house is still for sale so I need to keep that in mind when I add décor. I decided Read more [...]

I received products from eCarpetGallery.com, BeddingStyle.com and Air Wick for my review. All opinions are my own. I have been working on giving our master bedroom a new look and feel. I was tired of our bedroom being the laundry sorting area, paper storage area, and a dark gloomy bedroom. The clutter and dark colors were depressing and energy draining. I wanted a room where my husband and I could relax and reconnect with one another. I needed a refreshed color palate. I hoped for a look that Read more [...]

I received Twigz products from Kids Goods for my review. All opinions are my own. I have wanted to build a family garden for a couple years now. For a variety of different reasons, we’ve been putting the project off. This year, I decided it was time to turn what was previously our RV pad, into the family garden area. This space was perfect; it receives lots of sunlight and isn’t in our yard so it would get trampled on as much. When building our family gardens, I wanted to make sure Read more [...]

I received products from Radio Flyer for my review. All opinions are my own. For the last two years, we have wanted to build raised garden beds. We've hesitated doing so because our house is for sale and we didn't want to build beds and then have potential buyers not like having them on the property. Instead, we just added it to our growing list of things that we would do at the new house whenever we finally got to move. This year we have a different mindset, which is: we are the current house Read more [...]

Kohl’s provided me with Kohl’s Gifts for my review. All opinions are my own. For the last 4+ years, our house has been on and off the market. We have had a few showings and some open houses to try to find the right buyers. We usually hear the same comment from potential buyers, they like the house, but aren’t real sure about the location. Location, location, location! I obviously can’t change the location of our house. What I can do, is make the house and yard so darn cute, that the Read more [...]