DIY GREEN YOUR HOME Gift Basket For Spring Cleaning

January 17, 2019 by Dagmar Bleasdale 14 Comments

This Green Your Home basket full of eco-friendly products is a wonderful gift all year, but especially for spring cleaning!

Green Your Home Gift Basket

You know me, it’s a green day in our home every day. I’m passionate about recycling, reusing, green cleaning, and repurposing.

I’m a little obsessed about recycling, actually.

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Here is an example from today: I replaced our shower curtain liner. It’s a non-toxic one, naturally, not one of those stinky ones that outgas all kinds if fumes. You want to look for PEVA shower curtain liners.

Instead of throwing out the old shower curtain liner, I’ll reuse it to protect our floors during my painting projects, like I did for this project when I repainted our cabinet.

And I went as far as cutting out the three magnets on the bottom of the curtain so I can reuse them to make DIY magnets.

Living a greener life is easy, but some people are still intimidated and don’t know where to start. Don’t worry, making small changes is so easy!

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Heart-Shaped Treats for Valentine’s Day — Cookies, Pizza, and Brownies

January 12, 2019 by Dagmar Bleasdale 2 Comments

These heart-shaped treats will make this year’s Valentine’s Day extra special.

From heart-shaped pizza to brownie hearts, I bet one of these five treats will become your favorite for years to come.

Surprise your family or friends with them, and they also make sweet surprises for kids.

I’m thinking of making the hot cocoa on a stick for my son’s classmates this year. It’s so easy to make them, my son can help me. [Read more…]

Brilliant Wooden Crate Decorating Ideas For Added Storage Space

December 29, 2018 by Dagmar Bleasdale 8 Comments

Do you want to add instant farmhouse or rustic charm to your home? Do you want more storage space? Then inexpensive wooden crates are your friend! Here are a ton of wooden crate decorating ideas.

In this post I’ll go into detail about ALL the awesome decor ideas that feature wooden crates — inexpensive new ones from the craft store and vintage ones you might find at the flea market. [Read more…]

Farmhouse Christmas Home Tours to Be Inspired By

December 7, 2018 by Dagmar Bleasdale 7 Comments

Happy Holidays, friends! In the last few days, I have enjoyed looking at farmhouse Christmas home tours on different blogs, and I thought I’d share my favorite ones with you!

I mean, is there anything better than a farmhouse all decked out for Christmas?

Or a home that’s all decked out with farmhouse decor?

We don’t live in a true farmhouse, we live in a small home I lovingly call Blue Cottage, because to me a cottage is just like small farmhouse if it’s decorated with farmhouse decor.

I’ve noticed that a lot of the bloggers use a minimal approach — their home tours are beautiful with a minimum of decor.

I have a tendency to want to use all of my decorations, and I have a ton for Christmas as you can see in my home tour, but I’m totally inspired by the more minimalistic approach of other bloggers.

It just shows you once again that you don’t need to have loads of expensive decor to have a beautiful home.

I hope you will enjoy these Farmhouse Christmas Home Tours as much as I did! [Read more…]

How to Set Up a Coffee Bar For Your Guests

November 28, 2018 by Dagmar Bleasdale 2 Comments

This holiday season, surprise your guests with a self-serve coffee bar and Dunkin’ Donuts® Coffee.

I love to entertain and create tablescapes, and today I’m showing you how you can set up a cute coffee station that lets your guests create their own coffee flavor combinations!

By offering many different flavors and dairy and non-dairy milk, it’ll be fun for every one of your guests to make their own coffee just the way they like it — or to maybe try something totally new.

Dunkin’ Donuts is always a go-to option for yummy coffee, and I’ll tell you which flavor combination is my personal favorite.

How to Set Up A Coffee Bar

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