It’s Day 2 of the 12 Days of handmade Christmas ornaments, and today I’m sharing my DIY monogrammed wood slice ornament. In case you haven’t heard, monograms + rustic + plaid = this year’s Christmas trifecta! (Or maybe I just made that up.) (Feel free to nod your head and smile.) My inspiration for this
Don’t you hate it when a blogger shares a fabulous DIY project that you’d love to do yourself but you only have, like, 5 MINUTES before you’d need the finished product? Yeah? Me too! That’s why 11 of my blogging friends and I have decided to get together and bring you 12 days of DIY
G turned I-don’t-think-I’m-allowed-to-say on Saturday and although he’s not too crazy about adding another year to his age, Kate and I are birthday people and nothing was going to stop us from celebrating his day! As always, G said, “Please don’t get me anything for my birthday.” (Which is code for: Don’t spend any money.) Usually I
It’s the final post in my “Unpacking Your Home” series and today we’re tackling the heart of your household – the kitchen! If you’ve been hanging out with me since the birth of the internet you know that I kind of have a thing for organization. “A place for everything, and everything in its place”
How do you teach your little ones gratitude and appreciation? We want to give Kate the moon, of course, but there is such a delicate balance between providing for her, surprising her with fun little gifts, and helping her understand how lucky we are to have all the things we have. We say “no” to a
The best ideas involve a bottle of wine, wouldn’t you agree? Sometimes drinking it. Sometimes looking at it. Sometimes both. On this particular occasion it was both. I was working on my recent DIY Sweater Wreath with a bottle of red nearby keeping me all warm and toasty. I cut the sleeves off of the old cable
Taco seasoning makes me crazy. All you want to do is have an awesome Taco Tuesday, and there you are, standing in the seasoning aisle with your cart full of tequila and tortilla chips, taking a look at the taco seasoning packet ingredients, and there you see it… “Silicon Dioxide.” Yup. It’s listed as an
If you’re a student in my Unpacking School, so far you’ve learned my general unpacking tips in Unpacking Your Home: Part 1 and committed them to memory. Straight A’s all around. Now it’s time for Unpacking 201. This time around we’re taking things to the next level! And the closets. And the garage. In the second
I can’t see polka dots without thinking of Kate. They are so sweet, and fun, and cheerful. Just like our girl. One of my favorite Kate moments was when she was two-and-a-half and I bought her polka dot sheets for her “big girl” bed. She laid her cheek on her fresh set of sheets, stretched her
I’ll confess – for the last 15 years I’ve turned the pumpkin carving over to G. I love roasting pumpkins, eating pumpkins, painting pumpkins, gluing things on pumpkins, drinking pumpkin-flavored things, and wrapping them up to look like mummies, but when it comes to carving into them, I usually leave that to G. After all, the
mother, maker, decorator, and drinker
of the wine here at All Things G&D.
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