Anyone else love turning trash into treasure? That’s one of my favorite things about working with pallets! Not that all pallets are trash, but the ones I find in the alley outside our apartment definitely are. I love taking something that someone else has thrown out and making it into something useful, functional, and pretty for our home.
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Today’s post is brought to you by Jocie at OPC’s The Better Half! She has an awesome tutorial to share with you guys!
Thanks so much for having me here at Practically Functional! I’m Jocie (pronounced Jah-see) from OPC’s The Better Half. Here I am in Jamaica last summer, rocking my polka-dot shades. Yes, I’m a dork like that.
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Things got a little messy around here after Christmas (anyone else leave wrapping paper, boxes, and bows laying around for about five days before finally having the energy to clean up? :-p), and part of my New Year’s resolutions include being more organized about keeping our house clean. So what better way to start getting organized than by … {Read the rest!}
I originally shared this awesome potpourri simmer pot recipe as a guest post over at A Rosie Sweet Home. In case you missed it there, I’m sharing it here as well!
Today I’m going to share one of my favorite fall “crafts” with you. One of the things I love about fall (besides cute boots!) are the smells and flavors. … {Read the rest!}
I was making a berry trifle the other day (I promise, I’ll post the recipe eventually) and it required 2 pints of strawberries. Instead of hulling strawberries with a knife, I usually just slice the tops off the berries to get rid of the leaves and at least some of that weird, hard, flavorless, white core. But this … {Read the rest!}
I hate being inefficient, but this is especially true in my kitchen. In our old apartment the kitchen was tiny and only had two feet of counter space. 2 feet! It was hard to work in, but we definitely made the best use of our minimal space. Now that we have a much bigger kitchen we are actually having the … {Read the rest!}
The herbs we grow in our little indoor garden are doing super well, and I’ve been drying them on the drying rack I built for a few months now. But I needed a place to put them once they were dry, so I decorated a few tin canisters for storing the dried herbs with paper and Mod Podge.
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