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Emily in Paris is the brain candy we needed during quarantine. Chock full of fun, France, and fashion, it provided the perfect escape from the day-to-day of baking bread, watching TikTok, and staring out our windows. Not only did the first season of the show give us a killer urge to live beside a cute neighbor in Paris, but it also provided us a ton of outfit inspo, and Season Two — which drops on Wednesday, December 22 — promises to do the same. In honor of its premiere, we dove into some of Emily in Paris' new outfits and...

For weeks I’ve been promising y’all a construction update and I’m jumping on today to give you just that – and it’s a big one! So much has been accomplished since the last blog post update, I figured the best way to show it all was to give you a little tour… so that’s exactly what we’re going to do! (If you’re new here, I’d love it if you’d start with this post to get caught up on our journey and how we got here. Then you can see all the updates here.) We’ll start on the outside. They just...

A couple years ago I took some time to minimize our decorations and last year I took it a step further and added some organizing products to help sort and store our decor. I thought you might like to see some of my favorites for organizing holiday decor and get an update on how they worked and see my favorites. If you’re looking for some new systems and organizing solutions for your holiday decor and want to snag a few products now so you’re ready when January hits, this post is for you! First up, I grabbed these soft sided...

Vendor: Dovetailed Type: Workshop Price: 120.00 - 125.00 (12 variants) *SEW THE MARY SHIRT* CHOOSE YOUR PREFERRED DATE FROM THE DROP DOWN MENU AND SELECT THE OPTIONAL SEWING MACHINE HIRE OR BRING YOUR OWN! This project is an advanced make bringing together techniques for making button bands and buttonholes, and adding cuffs.  The workshop runs for 6 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11 am and 5 pm. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:What you will learn: How to cut your fabric and pattern match at the centre front - Transfer pattern markings - How to stitch darts correctly - Make and...

Ad-Free BlogOur home is a 1970's ranch with that space-wasting, long hallway. At the end is the main bathroom. I keep the door closed and hang this vintage stitched Santa from Denmark my great aunt did way back in the 1970s. We always got hand-work pieces for Christmas from my Danish family and occasionally a piece of silver for birthdays.  oldnewgreenredo It's all thick cotton, cross stitched with hand-stitched edging! oldnewgreenredo Behind another door hangs some festive 'garb', an elf runner and of course Santa's top and hat, waiting for the big day. oldnewgreenredo Again, we are dragging everything out---this will...