Did you guys know we've got a whole new category on MPMK this year? It's called Photography & Memory Keeping and we're stuffing it with tips busy parents can use to take great photos AND get those shots off our tech and into our lives. Here's Julee with our latest summer-themed post... We just returned from our first family beach vacation. Our children absolutely loved the beach and haven't stopped asking to go back. For me, photography has become my way of remembering places I visit, … [Read more...]
Decorating With Succulents
Ever since we moved into our new home, I've had an 'outdoors in' approach to decorating. We love our backyard and enjoy the large windows that seem to bring nature into every room. This spring, I started really playing up this aspect by adding more and more houseplants to our formal living room. Easy to care for, succulents have played a prominent role in my decorating-with-nature strategy. I don't have the best track record with keeping indoor plants alive, but I have found that most … [Read more...]
Creating a Dress-Up Play Closet {The Forever Home Project}
A dress-up closet is such a great creativity tool for kids. Unfortunately, not many of us have the space to create one in our homes. Today Julee is sharing her tips for maximizing your kids' closet space to create a hybrid dress-up/regular clothes closet and I'm totally smitten with the results. We just removed the doors from S's closet and replaced them with curtains to free up some space in her room and give her better accessibility. I think our next move will be to incorporate some … [Read more...]
How To Create a Reading Nook (The Forever Home Project)
Interested in setting up a fabulous reading nook in your home? Julee's here today with a bunch of super useful tips for doing so - as well as a list of her favorite reading chairs for a range of budgets. I have to tell you, I'm totally in love with this post and, coincidentally, we have the blue West Elm chair she's featuring in her roundup. I can't wait to use some of her tips to make it the center of a cozy reading nook of my very own - in fact the Target side table she features is on … [Read more...]
Style & Simplify: Display Solutions for Tiny Treasures
We're once again tackling organization today as part of our month long quest to eat better, parent better, organize better and just generally live better this year. I'm really quite smitten with this lovely little DIY project - the only problem is I couldn't decide where it fit better, in Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life or The Forever Home Project. In the end, I just decided to file it under both (I'm the boss around here - I can totally do that). Turns out I wasn't the only one with issues … [Read more...]
The Forever Home Project: A Rustic Holiday Mantle
Julee is back today with a seasonal addition to The Forever Home Project. I love her easy-to-do ideas and I'm seriously thinking about picking up one of those bay leaf garlands - so gorgeous (see the Etsy link in the post). Without further ado, here she is... I'm so excited to spend the holiday season in our new home that I started decorating the day after Halloween. A little crazy, I know! My first project to tackle was the fireplace in our formal living room. We decided to place our … [Read more...]
The Forever Home Project: Decorating a Completely Empty Space
I had to laugh when Julee emailed to say this was the topic she wanted to tackle for her next contribution to The Forever Home Project. Why? Because we've been experiencing the same dilemma of having to start from scratch in our new dining room, seeing as how it's the first (and likely only) dining room we'll ever have - we have no furniture for it. I was super excited to see how she was tackling the challenge and to pick up some tips. Julee didn't disappoint, either - I loved her process and … [Read more...]
The Forever Home Project: Creating a Shared Study Space
I'm so happy to share with you guys that we've added another fabulous contributor to our team. Like me, Julee has recently moved into what she considers to be her "forever home" and, like me, she'll be sharing her journey here on MPMK. This project, afterall, is all about the different ways people go about making a house a home and I'm really excited to start adding Julee's perspective. Today she's got an awesomely informative post all about how to create a shared study space for the kids. We … [Read more...]