Backyard

5 Ways to Upgrade Your Pergola

Let’s take your pergola to the next level! Here are 5 things you can do to “trick” out your pergola.

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Recipes

Hawaiian Haystacks Recipe

Feeding a crowd? Try Hawaiian Haystacks. Chicken in a gravy served over rice with toppings galore.

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DIY

Transform Your Backyard Paradise: Refinishing a Yardistry Pergola

Have a worn out pergola that needs to be stained and sealed? Do it in an afternoon for under $50.

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Lifestyle

Zone Chores

Zone method with kids chores to get more done and less arguing! Works for any age and any number of kids. Free template.

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DIY

Garage Workshop for a DIYer

Garage organization that sticks making clean up a breeze. Sharing my top tools and organization hacks.

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Most Favorite Baby Products

Mom of 4 and former labor and delivery nurse sharing the tried and true and excited about baby products.

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Lifestyle

Hair Care Favorites

Hair care doesn’t have to break the bank. My tried and true hair products.

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Lifestyle

Gestational Hypertension & Jamison’s Birth Story

Lots of labetalol and many hospital visits. Sharing the inside scoop of Jamison’s delivery at 34 weeks.

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home tour part 2

Design

Home Tour – Part 2

Our home is a rambler that has a basement. When we bought it 5 years ago, the basement was completely unfinished. Let me show you what I did 🙂  Home Tour – Part 2 I think its important to note, how this basement didn’t happen overnight. It was a series of smaller projects combined to […]

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Meet Christine Gummersall, a mother of 4, coach's wife, former Labor and Delivery nurse, and self taught DIYer who decided to take a sledge hammer to her 1950's bathroom over a decade ago and hasn't stopped tackling her honey-do list since.  Folow along as christine breaks down the pretty afters, by showing the whole how to process and empowers you to STOP waiting, and START creating a home you love, with your own two hands! 

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