Our 2012 Christmas decorations are up and brightening our house with lots of sparkle, tinsel, and cheer! So far I’ve shown you our colorful Christmas tree, and throughout this week I’ll be showing you the rest of our home’s holiday color and sparkle – starting with our entryway! Come on in for some holiday fun!
After weeks of drooling over the gorgeous tile selections at The Tile Shop, taking a fantastic, hands-on DIY tile class, and diving into my own tiling and grouting adventures – it’s time for my DIY kitchen backsplash reveal! Our new kitchen DIY tile backsplash (click to enlarge)! The tile is Riviera Beach from The Tile
If you follow me an Instagram (user name: allthingsgd), you may have already seen this, but for the rest of you – here’s a sneak peek at my 2012 Christmas decorations: Colorful Christmas stockings hanging on the staircase. Metallic ribbon-wrapped letters. More coming soon!
With my tiles set, it was time to start grouting! You really only need to let your tiles set for 18-24 hours before grouting them, but I let mine set for a week since I’m a weekend DIYer and wasn’t able to get to them any sooner. For my backsplash I used unsanded grout mixed
I really should have been more nervous about slapping tile up on our kitchen backsplash for the very first time, but for some reason I wasn’t at all. Not even a little bit. Maybe it was thanks to the fantastic DIY tile class I took at The Tile Shop to prepare myself. Or maybe it
I would start decorating for Christmas on July 5th if G would let me. Unfortunately, he insists that I wait until after Thanksgiving to bust out the Christmas cheer. In recent years, however, I’ve taken the liberty to interpret this to mean “after we eat turkey in November,” so once we get home from our
For those of you who don’t already know, I have a crazy fear of spiders. Like, heart-stopping, run my car off the road, jump into the laps of total strangers, and stop traffic in the middle of a busy intersection kind of fear. When it came time to decorate for Halloween (something I decided to
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