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Free Fall Sign SVGs – Fall is Proof That Change is Beautiful

It’s time to start getting your fall crafting on! Here’s a great collection of 11 free fall sign SVGs for your Cricut or Silhouette, including this original hand lettered design, “Fall is proof that change is beautiful.” Every year, without fail, we start approaching fall and I feel my crafty mojo kicking in. Anyone else, or is that just me? After a summer of kids home (although this year, it’s actually been 18 months of kids home!) and precious little “me time,” the prospect of cleaning up my craft space actually seems exciting […]

Football and Fall Y’all Tee + Cut File

Use this cute hand lettered Football and Fall Y’all cut file to whip up a fun t-shirt, perfect for football season! Iiiiiiiiit’s football season!! I am not nearly as football-obsessed as some, but gosh do I love football season. It’s a great excuse to spend Saturdays in front of the television (or tailgating!), eating yummy food, hanging out with friends, and cheering on my Penn State Nittany Lions. Combine that with my love of fall, and come September, I’m a happy camper! This post contains affiliate links – click here to read my full disclosure. To […]

Easy No-Glue Fall Wreath Tutorial

This super simple no-glue fall wreath tutorial walks you through creating a beautiful and inexpensive fall wreath for your front door! Have you ever made your own wreath? If you consider yourself to be the slightest bit “crafty,” chances are, you have – it’s a home decor staple and usually pretty easy to DIY. Plus, there are SO many ways to make a wreath! Here are a few I’ve made and blogged in the past: 1. Yarn Wreath with Rag Braid Flowers | 2. Twig Wreath | 3. Paper Rosette Wreath There’s nothing wrong with them […]

How to Create a Cozy Fall Front Porch

I’m excited to be welcoming you onto my front porch today! I always enjoy decorating my porch with the seasons, but 1) I’ve never actually shared it on the blog before, and 2) fall front porches are my FAVORITE! Yay!! I started bringing out my fall decor little by little starting at the end of August into the beginning of September…I’m sure my neighbors thought I was a little bit crazy. It took me a while to get all the elements I wanted pulled together, but now that it’s all “done” I just […]

Sep

Fall Tailgating Party

Fall and football go hand-in-hand around here, 5 miles away from Penn State University…and in our family, football and tailgating also go hand-in-hand! We haven’t been able to tailgate as often as we did pre-baby, but this past weekend we had our first overnight away from our little girl (thanks, Mom and Dad!) and were able to tailgate and go to the Penn State/UCF game. (We lost. But it was still a fun day!) So since it was our first tailgate in a while, I went all-out with a fall tailgating party. … READ MORE

Sep

Lamp Re-do

No, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth…we have been busy prepping our house to go on the market! It’s been a two month process, but the past two weeks have been crunch-time – hence the hiatus from blog posting for a bit. After lots of painting, de-cluttering, cleaning, and staging, our house is finally ready to list. We are praying it sells quickly, because keeping a house show-worthy with a dog and a one-year-old is going to be a full-time job! Part of the process of preparing our house… READ MORE

Sep

Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Casserole #sponsored

Well, it is officially back-to-school around here. Classes at the university started last week, and all of the local schools are in session as of yesterday. And even though I don’t have a school-aged child yet, the slow, easy pace of summer is gone and we are beginning to get back in the regular swing of things. It seems like every weeknight we either have somewhere to rush off to, or something on the agenda to get done around the house! Bye-bye, summer. The dilemma in our house is, with our… READ MORE

Sep

Napkin Wall Art

We are in the process of staging our townhouse to sell it – what a job that is! Part of that process has involved finally getting around to a small master bedroom makeover. No new furniture or anything major, but we put a fresh coat of paint on the walls and changed out the wood trim to white, and replacing the doors. Since we never actually got around to decorating the master bedroom in the first place (we’ve been married and living here together for 3 years, but my husband bought the… READ MORE

Aug

Original Fridays #18

Just a few of my favorite pins from the week… I am sad to see summer coming to an end…but when I see delicious recipes like this Frozen Pumpkin Latte Pie from Frugal Foodie Mama, I get excited for fall! This is a fall-flavor recipe that it would be totally okay to make now, while the weather is still warm. I will definitely be trying this one! I love fall colors, decor, and especially textures. Burlap, linen, twigs, straw…there is so much beauty in the “ordinary” textures of autumn. Lil’ Mrs.… READ MORE

Aug

Easy Zucchini Bread Recipe

Zucchini bread may possibly be my most favorite way to eat vegetables. So moist, sweet, and delicious! I could probably eat an entire loaf in one sitting. I picked up some zucchini at the farmer’s market and went searching for an easy Zucchini Bread recipe to make. I ended up at this recipe for Mom’s Zucchini Bread from AllRecipes.com, which is my very favorite site for finding recipes (and no they are not sponsoring me, that’s just the absolute truth!). I love that you can sort the recipe results by popularity, and… READ MORE

Aug

Grilled Barbecue Chicken Salad

I worked the same office job for four summers in a row during college, working on campus to coordinate the housing and meals for all the hundreds of summer camps and conferences that stayed in the dorms. With only three of us in that office, it was really difficult to stay ahead of things as it seemed like every time we turned around we had to put out another “fire” instead of working to prepare for the incoming camps. Needless to say, summer was a very stressful time in that office! But I do… READ MORE

Aug

Green Giant Veggie Snack Chips Review #sponsored

I love chips. Chips of any kind or flavor, really…barbecue, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar, plain old potato…yum. To me, a sandwich for lunch is not complete without chips on the side. (However, chips anytime without a sandwich on the side is totally okay.) So when I had the chance to try out Green Giant Veggie Snack Chips, I was excited…but honestly, a little skeptical. I had tried other veggie chips before and was not impressed. I mean, they weren’t terrible but they definitely weren’t as good as normal chips. Not something… READ MORE

Aug

How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies

It’s that time of year…when all the fresh fruit and produce that you bring home from the farmer’s market makes your kitchen a magnet for those pesky fruit flies. Do they drive you as crazy as they drive me? We’ve had a few flying around for a few days, and I finally decided to do something about it. For the longest time I really had no idea how to get rid of fruit flies, but then I came across this pin from The Idea Room and thought I’d give it a try. … READ MORE

Aug

Clear Skin for Grown-Ups #sponsored

This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™ and Clearasil, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #SuperFruits http://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO. True confession – I am 27 years old, and I struggle with clear skin. I made it through middle school, high school, and the beginning of college with virtually flawless skin, and thought I had escaped the acne affliction that many of my friends had battled in their teenage years…but sadly, I did not. While most other people’s skin was clearing up, mine was getting… READ MORE

Aug

Original Fridays #17

Happy Friday to all! So, my one-year-old is in the process of going from two down to just one nap per day :-( Veteran moms that I know have been assuring me that one solid afternoon nap is better than two shorter naps…but I’m not so sure. The morning nap was my blog-time, and the afternoon was get-stuff-done-around-the-house time. What will I do without that morning nap?? And to make it worse, while we’re transitioning the one nap she actually is taking is a battle…and only about an hour! I know it will all… READ MORE

Aug

15 Dinner Ideas

I live in a college town, which means it is the calm before the storm around here. Students have started coming back in a trickle, but next week is move-in week on campus (and for most apartments). This isn’t just a moderately sized college…we’re talking 40,000 students descending on our grocery stores all at one time! Now, I’ve lived here all my life, and know that Wal-Mart, Target, grocery stores, and even most restaurants are to be avoided at all costs during move-in week and the week after. But inevitably in years past, I’ve… READ MORE

Aug

August Silhouette Challenge – Hymn Art

I’ve been eyeing up this pin for quite a while now…but never had a way to do it without a cutting machine. Now that I have a Silhouette, though, this hymn art finally made its way onto my “to-craft” list! The idea is originally from Raggedy Creek Creations. She has a great tutorial on how to do this using contact paper, and I love that she added the stencil of the bird and branch to give it something extra. The first dilemma I ran into was what hymn to… READ MORE

Aug

DIY Personalized Onesie

Two of our very dearest friends are having a baby in November – we couldn’t be happier for them! The baby shower was last weekend, and I knew I wanted to do something special for them. Their last name is Reddington, so I thought a making a “Little Redd” diy personalized onesie would be cute! They aren’t finding out the gender beforehand (woohoo Team Green!), so I thought this would also be a great gender neutral gift for a baby girl or a baby boy. The first step was finding a plain red… READ MORE

stay-at-home mom to three beautiful children, wife to an incredible husband, and daughter of a loving God. I freely admit that I am not always the most creative or original person when it comes to crafting, decorating, organizing, cooking, etc...but I love being inspired by great ideas and putting my own spin on them! Look around, stay a while, and I hope through my *unoriginality* I can provide some inspiration to you, too!
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