Before the days of my Kindle I had tons and tons of books. They lined entire shelves and many had dogeared pages so I could quickly get to my favorite bits of the best novels I had. Some of them were prettier than others. A few were books I had since high school and kept because I enjoyed the book despite the fact that it was required reading. But then that ereader came into the scene and my distaste of clutter outweighed my love of books and I gave all but a handful away. I still have my book of Bible Stories I remember going through before I could even read. The book one of my favorite high ..read more

So a really, really neat thing happened to me… and I’m sharing this particular post on Valentine’s Day for a reason… I’m in LOVE! The good people at Plaid sent me a jar of Mod Podge with a nifty blue label. To be honest I glanced at it and set it on the desk. Then one day I really looked at it and saw “Mod Podge dishwasher safe formula”. Huh? What? Awesome! And since I bought myself a colorful set of knives for Christmas and there they are… aren’t they pretty? And they were less than thirty bucks. Score! These cuties have totally changed my thoughts on my kitchen. Before I wanted minimal color ..read more

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Amy from Mod Podge Rocks is one of my most fave bloggers of all time. Not only is she talented and incredibly successful, making her a huge inspiration and role model for me, but she’s also so nice. I mean it… SO nice. And so when I was trying to figure out what to do with a bunch of collected rocks, the boys and I made Mod Podge Rocks – literally! I thought the coincidence was too much to deny that they were totally inspired by the name of Miss Amy’s lovely blog! Now you may ask… why do I need rocks for magnets? And my answer is simple. Why wouldn’t ..read more

Come summer my Momma and I live in flip flops. They’re easy, they’re cheap and quite convenient when you’ve got pups to take outside or kids to chase outside after or whatever. As a result, we typically go through SEVERAL cheap pairs a season. And we were lamenting that the cheap ones aren’t cute and instead of just plain old whining, we decided to DO something about it. And that meant rocking out some fabric covered flip flops. So we went through my mother’s fabric stash, which I might add is incredibly reasonable compared to mine and given that she actually does something like QUILT and foun ..read more