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5 Beautiful Wall Treatment Ideas for Your Home (+ Christina at the Edmonton Renovation Show 2020!)
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5 Beautiful Wall Treatment Ideas for Your Home (+ Christina at the Edmonton Renovation Show 2020!)

Completely change the look and feel of a room in your home by applying an interesting treatment to one of your walls. Let me share with you 5 beautiful wall treatment ideas that I love, plus an exciting event I’m taking part in this month!

Make Maple Pecan Tassies (The cutest tiny tarts for Christmas!)
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Make Maple Pecan Tassies (The cutest tiny tarts for Christmas!)

These rich but delicate maple pecan tassies are a delicious addition to your Christmas cookie roster this year! They look like tiny tarts, and taste like a cross between a shortbread cookie and a slice of pecan pie. The addition of maple syrup is the perfect compliment to the pecans!

A Bright & Colourful Easter Table Setting
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A Bright & Colourful Easter Table Setting

A meaningful find inspired this Easter table setting! As we’ve been moving things around after my parents have left our guest house, converting that into my studio, and shifting storage from place to place, we found an old box containing some vintage china my grandma left me. I had almost forgotten about it until now!…

Mantel Decorating Ideas – How to Style a Mantel 2 Different Ways

Mantel Decorating Ideas – How to Style a Mantel 2 Different Ways

Over on my YouTube channel, I’ve decided to dedicate every Wednesday for the next little while to sharing some of my favourite, simple decorating tips. Last week I shared my 5 favourite home decor essential items, and today I want to share another home decorating tip with you: how to decorate a fireplace mantel! Adding seasonal…

Make DIY Unicorn Valentines from Foam Hearts
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Make DIY Unicorn Valentines from Foam Hearts

I bet you thought I was done with unicorn themed crafts, but… surprise! Valentine’s Day is approaching, and that only inspired my girls and I to make yet another magical unicorn craft. All three of my daughters are obsessed with the mystical creatures, so they were so excited when I asked them to help me…

Rustic Glam Holiday Decorating Ideas for the Bedroom

Rustic Glam Holiday Decorating Ideas for the Bedroom

Today I’m so excited to share with you a project I’ve been working on with The Brick. Introducing: My Brick Home – Your style guide for holiday decorating, plus monthly prizes! Read on to see some of my Holiday bedroom decorating ideas and how you can win a grand prize home shopping spree (up to $36,000), &…

French Country Farmhouse Christmas Dining Room & Table Setting
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French Country Farmhouse Christmas Dining Room & Table Setting

I’ve been feeling rather confused about which direction I want to go with our Christmas decor this year. I’m not sure if it’s the over abundance of social media or if it’s the fact that I took on a little too much work this season… either way, it’s been a struggle! I really love Christmas…

Cozy & Natural Thanksgiving Table Setting
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Cozy & Natural Thanksgiving Table Setting

You don’t need to spend a lot of time & money to make a beautiful looking table setting this Thanksgiving. Let me share with you my cozy & natural Thanksgiving table, and make sure to visit all of my fellow Canadian blogging friends’ Thanksgiving table ideas at the bottom of this post!

Non Candy Rainbow Heart Free Printable Valentines
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Non Candy Rainbow Heart Free Printable Valentines

This year, I thought it would be fun to create a non-candy option for Valentines for my girls’ classmates. When we found some adorable heart-shaped pencil sharpeners and googly eyeball rings, I knew exactly what we could make. Come see our non-candy rainbow heart Valentines, and download your own to print at home!

A Romantic & Inexpensive Floral Valentine’s Tablescape
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A Romantic & Inexpensive Floral Valentine’s Tablescape

I’m a sucker for romance. Give me ALL of the roses, candles, twinkling lights, poetry, and soft music, please! I almost like saving money as much as I like romance, so this year I gave myself the challenge of creating a dreamy, Valentine’s Day tablescape using only items I had on hand. Surprisingly, I think it…

Make Heart Shaped Beignets for Valentine’s Day
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Make Heart Shaped Beignets for Valentine’s Day

I’ve only ever heard of beignets from the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. My girls enjoy that movie, and our dear heroine, Tiana, makes beignets in her New Orleans Cafe. Recently, I was curious about what they were exactly, and then when I found out that they were essentially baby donuts smothered in…

How to Caulk Trim Before Painting – Tip Tuesday
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How to Caulk Trim Before Painting – Tip Tuesday

Caulking trim before you paint it is one of those semi-boring jobs, but I can guarantee you that caulking the holes and cracks in your trim before you paint your walls will make a HUGE difference in the finished look of your paint job! Filling in the seams between your baseboard, casing and walls, and filling…

I Choose Love Free Valentine Printable Artwork, Desktop Wallpaper & Phone Wallpaper
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I Choose Love Free Valentine Printable Artwork, Desktop Wallpaper & Phone Wallpaper

“Love is patient, love is kind.” You might be familiar with this Bible verse. It’s one of the most popular verses about love there is and it’s often recited at weddings and printed on artwork. We even have this verse hung on a sign in our master bedroom. I adore this verse, and I think it’s…

Christmas Bedroom Decorating Ideas: A French Country Farmhouse Bedroom for the Holidays
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Christmas Bedroom Decorating Ideas: A French Country Farmhouse Bedroom for the Holidays

I used to think it was going a little overboard to decorate your bedroom for Christmas, but now that we have a master bedroom that I’m madly in love with, I don’t think decorating it for the Holidays sounds silly at all! In fact, I thought it sounded so appealing that I grabbed my tabletop…

Creating an Entry Using a Cabinet as a Room Divider + Our Guest Cottage Update
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Creating an Entry Using a Cabinet as a Room Divider + Our Guest Cottage Update

If you live in a smaller home, you’ll know that having a lot of storage options in your house is really important. This is especially true in entryways where things tend to get dropped off and piled up – having a good entry storage system in place is always helpful! But what do you do if…

DIY Room Painting Tips (+ Little C’s Bedroom Makeover Progress for the ORC)

DIY Room Painting Tips (+ Little C’s Bedroom Makeover Progress for the ORC)

Just like knowing how to make throw pillow covers and drapes, I think that knowing how to paint a room is a really good essential tool that a DIY decorator should have in their arsenal. A fresh coat of paint makes a world of difference in how a room looks and feels. Do you have…

A Fresh Nature Inspired Spring or Easter Table Setting #DIYMySpring
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A Fresh Nature Inspired Spring or Easter Table Setting #DIYMySpring

Oh boy, do I ever have Spring fever! I’m definitely finished with the weird warm-cold-warm-cold winter that we’re having up here in Alberta. I just want the weather to make up its mind and switch right over to Spring. I’ve been really inspired lately to switch over to lighter, brighter colours in our home’s decor….

Make a Fabric Covered Bulletin Board #12MonthsofDIY
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Make a Fabric Covered Bulletin Board #12MonthsofDIY

Bulletin boards are such a handy thing to have around the home – especially in a home office! I had a boring old bulletin board in my craft room office that was begging for a makeover. With the help of some gorgeous fabric from OnlineFabricStore.net, some paint and some brass upholstery tacks, I easily turned…

Love Bug Valentine Kid’s Craft (Video)
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Love Bug Valentine Kid’s Craft (Video)

Valentine’s Day is coming soon, and it’s my girls favourite day of the year! They love helping me decorate our home with hearts and pink, and we also enjoy coming up with Valentines for their classmates together. We thought up these love bug valentines for this year, and my daughters were totally smitten with these…

Valentine’s Day DIY Waffle Bar
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Valentine’s Day DIY Waffle Bar

Do you have any special Valentine’s Day traditions with your family? We LOVE Valentine’s Day around here (put totally intended)! My daughters always enjoy putting up special heart themed decorations and we definitely like to do fun Valentine’s baking together at the beginning of February. This year, we thought it would be a lot of…