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Easy DIY Project Ideas

June 16, 2016

Hello again!

Thank you so much for the comments on the last post, and the understanding, it is very much appreciated. xo  I have the home tour ready for you for Monday, I hope you love seeing some of the new things around the apartment. And the blog hop is all Waterside Home Tours so it will be neat to see how others who live by the water are inspired by it in their decor.

And, I hinted to it in the last post but I wanted to keep you in the loop about where you can find me online these days. I’d love to keep in touch with you all!

I’ve started a new Facebook Page and Group both called … Easy DIY Project Ideas! Any guesses what it’s about? haha

If that’s all you need to know, please click over and Like the Page here and Join the Group here. You can also join the group by clicking the Sign Up button in the header of the page.

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If you’d like to hear more …

In all of this time that I’ve tried to figure out how to stay connected with you all, without transitioning this little space of ours into something other than what it is, I realized it is the sharing of inspiring and creative DIY ideas with other DIYers that I really enjoy. And not necessarily my own projects. I do my fair share of projects, but we all know how these hobbies ebb and flow and sometimes we aren’t right in the middle of our own project but we’re always on the look out for just that spark that will get us going again.

Or maybe you just cleaned out a closet and need to use up all of that [insert supply you have an excessive amount of lying around].

Or you like helping others with ideas for their project dilemmas. Deborah is looking for ideas to update her light, maybe you can help here?

The plan is to create a community for all DIYers, the avid, the wanna be and the everyone in between. I’d like to connect DIYers with easy project ideas and establish a community around sharing those ideas. I am only sharing links that lead directly to a project tutorial and images of projects that are more self-explanatory. With some DIY humor and a bit of general inspiration built in.

I would love for you to hop over and check it out and see if it is the type of page that you’d be into. If not, no worries, I know it’s not going to be for everyone. But if you do see projects you like a simple like and comment on that post will let me know you want to see more items like that. This blanket ladder and this shutter upcycle have been hits so far.

And I just did my first ever Facebook Live video (fear of live video on social media curbed = check) giving a little introduction and showing the current iteration we have of the driftwood fish art project. The plan is that the video will be embedded here … but if it’s not there you can check it out (it’s only 4 minutes) here.

 

So, hopefully I’ll see you over there, the Facebook Page and the Facebook Group, and if not I’ll definitely see you back here on Monday!

the time has come

June 7, 2016

pallet art tutorial

Hey there!

How have you been?!?! Long time no talk. I’ve gotten all of your messages and emails and comments here and there checking in on us. Thank you so much for those.

As you’ve probably noticed I’ve taken a step (or six) away from this blog of late. So many things have changed since our move to Aruba and although I loved sharing every bit of our DIY journey in Curacao and Key West I find myself feeling increasingly private and protective of our little life experience. I’m sure some of it has to do with moving into an apartment we don’t own, and some about losing our baby girls (we lost Marley in January, just 4 months after losing Mico, I still can’t talk about it, I’m not sure that’s normal) and some, I feel, is just normal life progression.
But it occurred to me very clearly the other day, the time has come to turn in a new direction. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I could possibly transition this little slice of the web into where my brain is headed but I just can’t make them connect. I want you to know that I have thought about this every day, many times a day, for a long time now. I do have something entirely new working its way through my brain, and I’ll check back in with you about that in a bit, but it just feels right to me to leave this here and give myself permission to stop stressing about trying to share details that I’m just not feeling in a sharing mood about. I am sorry. And don’t really have a complete understanding in my own head about why this feels right, I just know it does.
That being said, I am working to take a few new pictures of the apartment, including the finished kitchen!!, and plan to participate in an upcoming home tour blog hop with a bunch of other bloggers who also live by the water and are inspired in their home decor by the sea and all of its awesomeness. It seems like a good way to wrap it all up, for now. You never know, we may end up back in Key West and completing that renovation or somewhere new with a big ol’ fixer upper on our hands and I’ll need to just dust this baby right off and share with you all of the nitty-gritty details.
Until then, thank you for being a part of this little space with me. This has been an adventure that I could never have imagined. And a journey that wouldn’t have been nearly as sweet without you by my side.
xoxo
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