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Design Love Friday!
Design Love Friday is back and is going to be ever so helpful to us now that we are gathering images for our new place! One of the first things we are going to do is paint and do the chair rails,...
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Before and After Buffet
We are venturing out of our normal paint colors and decided to go with Annie Sloan's French Linen color. I pretty much am obsessed with the color. It looks a little lavender in the pictures for some...
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Would you like a side (table) with that?
Joe and I were at Lowe's this week and we always look at their mis-tints, the colors that people request that are not correct. Anyway, this color was on the mistint shelf for $5. Isn't it fabulous? Our...
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Carpet options - help!
Carpet should not a big decision, but for some reason I am struggling over it. As we are closing in on our closing date, we are getting quotes for some things. We are replacing the carpet in our new...
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Painting a Union Jack/British Flag on a dresser tutorial
British flags are on so many things right now! All over Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn and others, but at a crazy cost...so make your own! After doing several of these, we have it down to a...
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Baby Gates?!?
OK mamas! I need your input. We don't have stairs in our lives. Neither grandparent has stairs and we didn't have stairs...until now. So I need your help on which one to get. What are your opinions?I...
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Leibster Award
So excited! I have sweetly been nominated for the Liebster Award by Jackie Jade. Never knew about it until she nominated me for it, but it is fun and I hope you participate! There is no real award for...
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Design Love Friday...or Monday! - RH
I totally forgot about posting on Friday! I am so sorry... please forgive me. Anyway, I need some serious help because I have a HUGE obsession with all things Restoration Hardware and West Elm and I...
View ArticleJust do it! I did it and am loving it :)
I quit my job a little over a year ago. I absolutely loved working for By The Hand, an inner-city after-school program helping nearly 1000 kids in Chicago. I LOVED IT and what they were doing, but knew...
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Inventory overload!
We have so many pieces we finished over the last few days it's not even funny! We just posted them all to Craigslist and are hoping they are sold so we can have our house back :)Here are a few of the...
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Pinterest Projects I must try
I have 686 pins! You ask, "how many have you tried?"Embarrassingly, I am obsessed with pinterest and have maybe tried 3 recipes and NO projects. This project lady has not done ANY. So, a new year, a...
View ArticleWe closed on our new home!!
I am so excited I can hardly stand it! It was a big day when I bought my first laptop (first big purchase), then a bigger deal when I purchased a car, but wow, a home! No words can explain how excited...
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Design Love Friday!
So I thought I would start off with this picture because it is 4 degrees in Chicago today and I just need to live vicariously through someone in warm weather right now!! Good weekend for us to be stuck...
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House rehab - part I
What have you been doing for the last 10 days you ask? Well, we have purchased a house, painted almost all of the 2100 square feet, including the moulding and the ceilings, laid all new carpet, moved...
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Happy Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day can be so wonderful for some and so difficult for others. I pray that you felt loved today!Here's a little Happy Valentine's Day from our sweet Valentine!
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before and after - marble top buffet
We have never come across anything like this with the marble top on it. Isn't the Annie Sloan color Old White beautiful with the brown and white tumbled marble?!?Stay tuned for more house reveal this...
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Paint and Carpet do miracles!
Did you miss me? Well, I'm back and my life is starting to get back in order. We are pretty much moved in! On another note, it is amazing to me what paint and carpet can do! Check it out! Stay tuned...
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High Gloss and lovin it
I have been painting furniture for a year now and love it, but wanted to try a few different things to mix it up. The latest MegMade creation is done with Rust-O-Leum High Gloss White Enamel and was...
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Design Love Friday!
Freaky how fast this week and month went! Happy Friday and Merry March :)Any fun plans this weekend? Big projects? Tell me, tell me :)
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Dressers galore!
I'm back and have a lot to share. But I thought I would start with a few dressers we have completed recently :)What do you think?
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Happy Father's Day to the man I love!
I really cannot say enough about the man I married and the person I have become because of him. Here's a few of the things that I love about him, in no order of importance! (29 to be exact because that...
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Some seriously awesome updates about MegMade
I just want to say thank you to all of you who have been there since the beginning of MegMade! I am so excited to say that because of all of the support of people like you, we have grown bigger than...
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