Celebrate All Hallow’s Eve with a set of spooky Halloween candles made with paper towel tubes and Dollar Store battery operated candles! With All Hallows Eve approaching, my focus has finally shifted to the Halloween props. I am panicking a little bit, as I don’t want to end up having countless ongoing projects in hand with none completed. So I…
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Learn how to make your own Pottery Barn Inspired Halloween Plates with our free (and creepy) printables. We’ll show you how it’s done! Since last year, I’ve been eyeballing Pottery Barn Halloween appetizer plates. Instead of using them as normal dishes, my plan was to use them as decor pieces around the house. Figures, by the time I finally decided…
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If you’ve ever searched for how to do image transfer to wood, ceramic, metal or to any other hard surface, you must know there are several methods and tools to do it. My preferred method uses Mod Podge Regular Matte, because it is inexpensive, and I always get excellent results, even on smooth surfaces like glass or glazed ceramic. Here…
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A DIY built-in bookcase was the perfect solution for a small unused space in our home. The space looks much better now, and it’s a useful storage area! Aristotle once said that nature abhors a vacuum – that a void cannot exist because the denser matter that surrounds it will flow into it as it seeks a new balance. My…
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With Halloween on the way, we started watching creepy movies. Horror movies and me? Nope, not a very good combination! But we found an easy solution to that: when we’re watching a horror movie or show, I work on my crafts or surf the web while I sit next to my babes and keep him accompany. So I do in…
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CONTINUED FROM>> About Us 12 hours later, I landed in Doha on a warm evening in March of 2010. The eyebrow-arching plan hatched three months prior was about to be realized. All I had to do was deplane, clear customs and meet my fiancée. If the customs agents thought it strange that an American guy was landing on their shores…
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Don’t you love when you have an easy day at work on a Friday? You know… when there is not much going on, and you can actually surf on the web freely, maybe read some posts on your favorite blogs or maybe have a little bit of Pinterest time to yourself. Not that it happens often, but one of those Fridays…
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Finally, fall is here. Not that I enjoy watching my poor babes struggling with the leaves, but this is the time when we start the countdown for Halloween. All Hallows Eve is Greg’s show time for home decoration. I know what you’re thinking: I let a man do the house decoration?? Well, what can I say… He is way better…
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We love cherry tomatoes. We grow several cherry tomato plants. We stake them. We nurture them. We have too many damn cherry tomatoes. Midsummer, when the first cherries throw off the green mantle of immaturity and wrap themselves in the fine red raiment of ripeness and the first Sun Golds explode with the yellows and oranges of a Balinese sunrise,…
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