As part of our living room remodel, we created a modern floating mantel to replace our clunky brown one (original post here). Lucky for Pots, Pans and Paintbrushes, one of my favorite home remodeling/DIY blogs, Remodelaholic, is featuring the project today on their blog. Check out the feature here. And thanks to Remodelaholic for the post!

Showing posts with label Blog Features and Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Features and Updates. Show all posts
Chicken Wire Frame Features
I just want to say a quick THANK YOU for all of the love I've been receiving about my DIY Chicken Wire Frame. I know I'm not the first person to ever make one (not even close), but your compliments still make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Better yet, the post was featured on Tater Tots and Jello in a list of fun, bright colored spring projects submitted to the Weekend Wrap Up link party, as well as Roadkill Rescue for its salvaged before and after.
Recent Blog Features
Happy Valentines Day! It has already been a pretty sweet week so far - sold my first Etsy item, have had a couple blog features, and today marks 5 years since the day I first met my husband (yes, on Valentines Day). Mainly though, I'm here to share the blog love I've recently received.
DIY Burlap Vases from Starbucks Frappuccino Bottles
DIY Burlap Vases from Starbucks Frappuccino Bottles

2012 in a Nutshell
Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate the past year and the onset of 2013, here's a few 2012 highlights and a small dose of what's to come.
Top 5 Favorite Pinterest Recipes
Top 5 Favorite Pinterest Recipes
- Cilantro Lime Rice
- Grilled Pesto and Goat Cheese Pizza
- Weight Watchers Taco Soup
- Creamy Grilled Chicken Piccata
- Chicken Enchiladas with Avocado Cream Sauce
New Blog Design
After venting about how frustrated I've been the past year with my blog design, I finally committed to a new concept.

Whatcha think? It's been a long time coming, to say the least. I've brainstormed and drafted and designed, yet continued to scrap everything I created. Logos just aren't really my thing.

Whatcha think? It's been a long time coming, to say the least. I've brainstormed and drafted and designed, yet continued to scrap everything I created. Logos just aren't really my thing.
Thank You PicMonkey
For as much as I blog, I often feel like such a rookie. Yeah, maybe I'm being a bit harsh on myself, but my blog is totally DIY, make- it-work just like everything else in my life.
The problem is that I want to be an expert. The reality is that I'm not. I'm a self-taught blogger with an extremely creative eye who is trapped in frustration because I can't make my blog look the way I want it to look or do the things I want it to do. My figure-it-out methods have simply just not worked.
So, why am I venting these frustrations that have irritated me for the past year? Because I want to say THANK YOU to PicMonkey for giving me a glimmer of hope.
Pic Monkey makes photo collages. Pic Monkey is easy. And best of all, Pic Monkey is free! Hallelujah, amen, thank goodness... and I don't even have to register to use it! Check out some of my DIY Wedding collage examples below that I made from PicMonkey.
- My formatting is always cursed with random spaces and fixing it each time has come down to a methodical science (why does everything quadruple space when I paste from word?)
- My fonts are sometimes inconsistent even though I continue to select the “default” font
- My blog design is not near what I imagine and envision, and I spend HOURS googling HTML code to fix things that I typically can't figure out how to fix
- I've made dozens of attempts at a new logo and background, yet I do not love any enough to actually commit
- My layout is not how I'd like it, but once again I waste time trying to learn HTML to fix it, and it still doesn't fix
- My efforts to recruit followers (yeah, I only have 21) have also been a fail
- I have no idea how to easily watermark photos or add cute tags
- Making photo collages has always been a nightmare using some janky online collage tool or trying to rig them in Photoshop
The problem is that I want to be an expert. The reality is that I'm not. I'm a self-taught blogger with an extremely creative eye who is trapped in frustration because I can't make my blog look the way I want it to look or do the things I want it to do. My figure-it-out methods have simply just not worked.
So, why am I venting these frustrations that have irritated me for the past year? Because I want to say THANK YOU to PicMonkey for giving me a glimmer of hope.
Pic Monkey makes photo collages. Pic Monkey is easy. And best of all, Pic Monkey is free! Hallelujah, amen, thank goodness... and I don't even have to register to use it! Check out some of my DIY Wedding collage examples below that I made from PicMonkey.
Liebster Blog Award
In addition to my first feature last week, I told you I had some more exciting blog news to share. In my rookie year of blogging, I have been nominated by Susan at Organized 31 for the Liebster Blog Award!

What is the Liebster Award?
A designation given by bloggers to other up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. With only 19 followers (come on people, I know I have more frequent visitors than that), I definitely qualify. The purpose of it is to show appreciation, sprinkle some kudos and help spread the word about blogs. I must say, it DEFINITELY made me feel loved.
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