Landscaping a New Home
Landscaping a New Home Y'all. Landscaping a new home after a year of getting the old home ready for market, cleaning & decluttering, packing, and finally moving into the new new, is A BREATH OF FRESH AIR; literally. We started this project last week. The home we purchased and moved into last year...
7 ideas for Hosting a New Year’s Eve Party Using Upcycled Christmas Décor
We go to so much trouble to decorate for the holidays, it seems such a shame to just put it all away on December 26! The same color scheme you used for your Christmas décor and table setting can be stretched into hosting a New Year’s Eve party. And why not get together...
Tips for Setting the Perfect Christmas Table
There is so much to be done this time of year, let me take some of the guesswork out of hosting a Christmas meal whether it's lunch or dinner. Choose a color scheme. Three colors creates a nice balance. Trendy this year is red, lime green, and white with black. Sounds edgy, but...
Decorating Your Home for Thanksgiving Guests
It’s time for friends and family to gather and your home deserves to be at its best as you welcome everyone. Here are some tips for decorating your home for Thanksgiving guests. Remember to keep it simple, keep it fresh, and most of all: KEEP IT YOU! However you choose to decorate always add...
Staging Your Home to Sell
Decluttering & Minimizing Your Home as Part of Moving It’s been a hot minute since I’ve had time to blog and I’ve missed you all! If you’ve been following along, you know that we have been on a journey this year. Mid-April we finally decided now was the time to sell our large...
Home Selling Checklist: Things to Do Before Selling Your Home
Things to Do Before Selling Your House Y’all…getting ready to sell your house is a daunting task. Sure, there are those services now where you can just ask for a quote online or sell it without ever having a showing or an open house. But if you want to make top dollar on...
Home Renovations Revealed
Finally, renovations are almost complete! I haven’t blogged in a while because I have been knee-deep in all things renovating. The renovations and refreshes are almost complete. If you are just joining our journey, we are prepping our home to sell and plan on downsizing when we move. We began preparing at the...
Yard Sale Aftermath
Yard sale is finished. Now what? The big pre-move yard sale was last weekend, scheduled for three days (Friday-Sunday). We had gone through every room, every closet, the garage, the detached wood-working shop…all of it. I placed an ad in our local paper, and their online publication; and I created a Facebook Event....
Time to Get Ready for the Yard Sale
A pre-move yard sale and moving go together like PB&J. Who among us has NOT had a yard sale? I think almost every person who’s moved has had some form of moving sale/yard sale/garage sale. I remember when I was in high school our church youth group always did all sorts of fund-raising...
Saving Your Sanity While Prepping & Packing to Move
Last week on the blog I shared some tips for staying sane while prepping and packing for a move. This week let’s take a deeper dive. These are things I will be doing in the near future when we’ve sold our current home and found where we are moving next. While some of...
