Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
Can we talk ugly lamp?
Queen Elizabeth-hat ugly.
Tada! I bought this glass lamp a while ago for just a few dollars at a tag sale, and doesn’t it have the ugliest lampshade ever? Shudder.
I want to bust out laughing when I see that lamp shade. It’s so ugly, it’s kind of pretty, right? [Read more…]
You’ll love this fancy but easy broccoflower and mushroom pasta with gruyere sauce.
Are you ready for a creative gluten free pasta recipe that sounds elaborate and fancy but isn’t?
Thanks to my deliveries from Field Goods, a local company that I get a bag full of farm-fresh produce from every week, I have had to be more adventurous with cooking, which has been a lot of fun!
Have you noticed how much more often I now post Instagram photos of food?
It’s always a surprise what will be in the bag, and this week, I had this beautiful broccoflower and mushrooms that I wanted to figure out a yummy recipes for.
A broccoflower is a hybrid between a broccoli and cauliflower.
Does it look so pretty? It looks like a piece of art. Or a dinosaur. [Read more…]
Welcome to Dagmar’s Home and the Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour!
After writing blog posts about decorating our kitchen and how I made our Christmas tree taller, plus how I repurposed a vintage pie tin to make this centerpiece, here is the decorated living room of our Blue Cottage!
I’m so excited to show you because a lot of work went into it, and I really like how it turned out.
My Christmas theme for this year: simple, rustic, and a lot of plaid.
And bottle brush trees. [Read more…]
Do you need more room for supplies in your craft room? Here is how I solved the storage problem we all have when we have a ton of DIY and craft supplies — I repurposed this freebie into a craft room shelf.
I have two fun finds to share with you this week. I haven’t really featured this freebie shelf before that Don brought home a year ago from a job site.
He’s not crazy about me schlepping more furniture into our little cottage, so it was sweet of him to bring it home for me.
I used it on our porch for a while and then moved it into my office for extra storage. [Read more…]
Amy Howard — who rescues furniture and restores them with her own line of paints, stains, and waxes — was sweet enough to invited a selected group of 14 DIY bloggers for dinner at her new home in Memphis, TN, a few weeks ago. [Read more…]