Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
Do you have some silver and gold decor? Then you can create this simple but pretty New Year’s Eve tablescape in minutes. I’ll also show you some fun New Year decor and gift ideas.
I want to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2023 is going to be epic!
We are not entertaining for New Year’s Eve, but I still wanted to decorate at least a little bit and came up with this easy New Year’s Eve tablescape.
New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and it’s time for not just yummy food. It’s time for festive drinks — like this light and sweet Pineapple Radler Spritzer drink!
If you know me, you know that I’m a total lightweight, and that my favorite alcoholic drinks are sweet.
Don’t give me a bitter red wine — I want sweet!
I’m known to add orange juice to Moscato wine, that sweet.
So when I thought of a drink for New Year’s Eve, the first thing that came to mind was making a sweet, light drink with just a bit of alcohol, the kind I love.
A spritzer is a chilled drink, usually made with white wine and carbonated water or sparkling mineral water.
When I shopped for the drink ingredients, I decided to not make it with wine. I wanted to use Beck’s beer — because it’s from my hometown in Germany, Bremen! [Read more…]
It’s that time of year again — for my Blue Cottage Christmas home tour. Let me show you my cozy little house all decorated for the holidays.
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A few weeks ago I finally got this chandelier installed in my living room. It’s an inexpensive, simple farmhouse chandelier that I bought about a year ago and exactly what I wanted for this space.
The best part – it’s on a dimmer, so I can create the kind of lighting I want. [Read more…]
Adding a rustic farmhouse console table to my kitchen was a great move: it added so much storage for many of my pretty vintage dishes I want to display and not hide away in kitchen cabinets.
Welcome to Dagmar’s Home!
Today I’ll show you how you can add a ton of storage to your kitchen.
My son and I are hanging out on the sofa, watching The Pioneer Woman cook applesauce.
I’ve got my laptop on my legs and am typing away — I’m tickled pink to show you what I did yesterday!
I assembled the rustic farmhouse console table I bought for our kitchen months ago.
This is such an easy 5-minute fall project: make instant DIY metallic pumpkins with sticky aluminum foil tape.
You don’t have to go to the store and buy new fall decor – just update the pumpkins you already have.
Yes, it’s that time of year: to think about fall decor.
I love to recycle and reuse items, and I love super easy, fast DIY projects, so this is my kind of project.
It’s SOO easy, and so much fun to update your fall decor! The kids can help you with it — that easy.
Do you
Then listen up, my friend.
When we were organizing our shed in the spring and going through the 20 tool bags my Don owns stuffed full of of drills, nails, and odds and ends from his carpentry and construction jobs, he was throwing a half-used roll of metallic tape into the garbage pile.
Uh, not so fast!
I was attracted to it like those birds that steal shiny objects and picked it up to check it out. I had never seen this kind of tape before, but I immediately fell in love.
If there is such a thing — to fall in love with tape.
It’s actually aluminum tape for HVAC jobs.
Where was this all my life?
I instantly thought of so many ways I could use it for DIY projects!
I mean, it’s metallic, and it has glue on the back of it. There isn’t a surface that’s safe from me now. [Read more…]