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A Simple Salad with Avocado
A Simple Salad that is just that… SIMPLE! It can be made in about five minutes and requires only 8 ingredients, most of which are likely sitting in your kitchen as you read this. This salad is light and compliments almost any dinner but can stand on its own, too.
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Friday Finds on Mackinaw Road: Give Me Five
Hi and Happy New Year! It’s been awhile since there has been a Friday Finds on Mackinaw Road. I thought it would be fun to bring it back (albeit a couple of days early given that the days are all confused this holiday season anyway) but with a little twist. Don’t worry, though, it will still be as random as ever. Just a bit more of a structured randomness- haha! I’m going to try to cover five finds every Friday and hopefully it will only take about five minutes of your time. In this five, there should be a little bit of home, travel, art, gifts, and clothes. Sooo…. here…
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A Red and Blue Christmas Table and A Christmas Dinner Menu
Happy Holidays! I can’t believe that Christmas is already here. I thought I’d just quickly share our Christmas Dinner Menu & Red and Blue Christmas Table plans. It’s a little traditional, a little coastal, a little Scandinavian-inspired… you get the idea… as usual… just making throwing-in-everything-I’m-drawn-to and creating my made-up style 😉
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Modern Traditional Christmas Kitchen
Hello and Happy Holidays! This time of year is always a whirlwind with holiday gatherings, kids’ concerts, school parties, and all of the fun!!! I’m currently trying, trying, trying to keep it simple in our Modern Traditional Christmas Kitchen. Also, admittedly, I ran out of time with my refusal to decorate until after Thanksgiving and the shorter span of weeks between it and Christmas. Sometimes routines are good, sometimes not so much. Oh well!
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Holiday Gifts for Almost Everyone
Holiday Gifts for Almost Everybody Hi! I almost didn’t get around to holiday gifts guides this year, but then thought, why not just throw it all into one?!? That’s more my speed anyway. But, if you would like more condensed, specific Gift Guides, you can check out this one and this one and this one from years past. *This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you!
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Elegant Dining Room Refresh
Well.. we made it to Week 6 of the One Room Challenge! It was touch-and-go for awhile there. (It always is with me- haha!) But, I am so SO excited to share Gretchen’s Elegant Dining Room Refresh!!! If you missed the original plans, you can find them here. I love all of our original choices and the ones we ended up landing on even more!!!
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Elegant Dining Room: How to Add a Chevron Board and Batten Wall
Hi there! Well… we missed a week for the One Room Challenge, so we have a lot to catch up on! As a refresher, Gretchen and I are…well… refreshing her dining room. Because I needed some focus, I dubbed the dining room our Elegant Dining Room Refresh (super creative, I know), and it certainly has lived up to its name! This week, we added a chevron board and batten wall. This is such an easy (Okay, not easy. But also not hard. Definitely time consuming.) and relatively inexpensive way to add elegance. So, here is what we (mostly Gretchen) did.
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Elegant Dining Room Refresh- One Room Challenge (ORC), Week 3 Updates
Hi! It’s the 3rd week of the One Room Challenge for our Elegant Dining Room Refresh, and we keep getting delayed. If you missed last week, Gretchen and I attempted to stain and paint a console table. You can learn everything we learned not to do (haha!) in the post here. You can see how all of it will fit together into her Dining Room Refresh here.
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How to Paint a Console Table: Lessons Learned
Hello there and Happy Fall! I finally, begrudgingly, turned on the heat this week. I guess autumn is officially here! Apple picking and all the plaid blankets, here we come! This week, for the One Room Challenge, Gretchen and I semi-focused (it’s hard to stay on one topic and in one room!) on how to paint a console table that was recently gifted to her.
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Dining Room Design Board
Dining Room Design Board WELCOME Hi there! It’s been awhile. I’m hoping to get back into the blog swing now that it’s October. Fingers crossed. Gretchen and I have decided to enter the One Room Challenge (ORC- you can check out all of the entries and their progress on the One Room Challenge blog here) with a dining room design this fall and refresh her dining room. She has already incorporated so many lovely pieces since she moved in a few years ago.
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