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Mercury Glass Barware DIY

01/22/201401/22/2014 Kristina Ackerman 1 Comment booze

Faux mercury glass apothecary jars from thrifted glasses and candleholders.

DIY vintage stacking stool reupholstery project, before and after.

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Stool Legit

10/02/201310/02/2013 Kristina Ackerman 2 Comments furniture, vintage

How I reupholstered a set of vintage stacking stools and lived to brag about it

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Bottle Tops: Our quick bar makeover, with printable liquor bottle labels

08/12/201301/29/2020 Kristina Ackerman 3 Comments booze, home

Thanks to some swanky liquor bottle labels (which you can download and print), our bar is the belle of the ball

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Illumination Challenge

06/12/201305/27/2015 Kristina Ackerman 13 Comments budget, decorating

Can you guess what this DIY chandelier shade is made of?

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A vintage end table restored

04/10/201305/15/2013 Kristina Ackerman 1 Comment

Wood restorer is crazy. But, like, awesome crazy.

Pretty cookies on pretty Christmas pedestals you can make for pennies.

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Semi-Disposable Potluck pedestals

12/22/201201/29/2020 Kristina Ackerman 0 Comments budget, cheap, easy

It takes like ten minutes to throw together these little pedestal dishes. Anyone can do it, and they cost next to nothing. Find out how!

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Christmas is for the birds, but not in a bah-humbug way

12/14/201204/24/2015 Kristina Ackerman 13 Comments gifts, the great outdoors

Sprinkle the gift of birdseed ornaments around your neighborhood, making the trees and birds both merry. Oh, and here’s a window into my neurotic creative process.

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Farewell Halloween, Hello Harvest: The Quickchange Holiday Vignette

11/01/201210/07/2014 Kristina Ackerman 0 Comments decorating, fall, Halloween, holidays, home

Presto chango! See how we transformed our Halloween display into an homage to the harvest season without buying anything new.

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Make Your Shelf at Home: Revamping a $10 Bookcase

05/18/201206/12/2013 Kristina Ackerman 4 Comments budget, colorful, furniture, home, paint, storage

How an ugly piece of furniture became a cute place to store cute things.

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Roundup: Last-Minute Holiday Inspiration

12/23/201112/03/2012 Kristina Ackerman 3 Comments christmas, holiday

Here is a list of the things I still believe—however delusional it may sound—that I still have a chance to

Set your pretty holiday table with these easy snowflake placemats.

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Paper-snowflake placemats

11/28/201106/12/2013 Kristina Ackerman 3 Comments budget, cheap, christmas, diy, easy, holiday

Refresh your holiday decor on the cheap by making sweet custom DIY snowflake placemats in a matter of minutes.

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Spider? I hardly know her

10/18/201110/07/2014 Kristina Ackerman 7 Comments beads, budget, decorating, easy, fall, Halloween, holiday

I don’t usually decorate for Halloween. I love Halloween, and I love holiday decorating, but Halloween decorating doesn’t really suit

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