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Dec 13

Personalizing the Holidays (Decor + Gifts!)

Dec 13

When I shared my mantel a last week I mentioned that I was waiting on new stockings to arrive but they were stuck in the mail strike… Guess what?! Here they are! That means all SIX of us have matching stockings. When I bought our last stockings (the year the twins were born), I’d also bought coordinating yarn to cross stitch our initials on to them. After 5 years with NO monograms, it’s clear that’s not my strength. This time around I thought we’d make it clear who’s stocking is who’s with embroidered names.

I’m so excited to partner with Personalization Mall to share another Modern Handmade Home post with you! This time we are sharing some of the things we’ve chosen to personalize for the holidays with decor and gifts. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time- you’ll probably be thinking that I already do that the DIY way. And it’s true for most things… but clearly I can’t embroider or cross stitch stockings. So I jumped on these gorgeous fur ones so fast when I saw these.Continue Reading…

Dec 12

Modern Olive Green Kitchen Before + After!

Dec 12

*Some of the products in this space were provided through sponsorship. I’ll * them so you know :) See all my policies here!*

It’s FINALLY that time! We’ve been working on this kitchen remodel for months and I’ve been working on the styling, photos, video, and blog post for this reveal for what feels like weeks so I can’t tell you how darn excited I am to share the reveal of our modern olive green kitchen with you guys!

If you haven’t been following along (welcome!), we bought our new home this summer (a cute rancher- you can see all the before photos RIGHT HERE) with big plans to remodel it room by room. But the first room we took on was the biggest and turned into a full main floor remodel when we couldn’t find the same flooring to carry through the new kitchen. I shared the design plans for the kitchen RIGHT HERE and an update (including the setback of the flooring!) in a blog post and vlog style video RIGHT HERE. And now? Months later, I’m excited to share the before and after of the finished space!

You can find the video tour of this space RIGHT HERE.

I’m going to share all the before photos, after photos, details we chose, hidden storage (heck yes!), and sources BUT first… I wanted to chat a bit about what this kitchen means for us as DIYers, because it feels SO big.

Dec 10

DIY Wooden Sign + Hidden Essential Oil Storage (Free Plans!)

Dec 10

You GUYS. I’m super excited about this DIY. I’m not going to lie… it was a bit of a painful process to get here while we tested and trialed and errored. But we did all that and now you don’t have to. So that’s a win, right?!

Today I’m joining up again with the fabulous ladies from Modern Handmade Home and we are taking the challenge of creating some ‘Hidden Storage’ in partnership with Kreg Tool Co. and Build Something. We not only created DIY tutorials for our projects but also FREE PLANS. Which is totally new for me and I might have had to call in a favour to get it done. But it’s done and amazing. I’m totally impressed with all the projects these ladies came up with (you can find them all at the bottom!). But in the meantime… let me share mine with you!

I’ve started getting in to essential oils. I know they’re on a bit of a trend right now but I’m also just loving them. They helped my allergies SO much this year and take care of my toughest headaches, so I’m on board with that. But I’m also worried about my kiddos getting their hands on them. And am always looking for storage solutions that are also pretty. THIS SIGN. It does it all. I created this wooden sign to fit standard essential oils bottles but also to look like… well, a wooden sign! I love how it turned out and it stores all the oils I have and more. Guess who’s putting in an order for more tonight now that I have room for them?Continue Reading…

Dec 05

Girly Christmas Bedroom – Pink Holiday Decor

Dec 05

Today I’m so excited to be joining in on another home tour. And like Monday (I shared my mantel!), I’m not sharing much of my home… because it’s under construction ;) BUT we finished Aubrey’s bedroom for the fall One Room Challenge so it was exciting for her (and me!) to decorate a little girls bedroom for the holidays for the first time ever. If you didn’t catch Aubrey’s room reveal, you can check that out right here– but this is the first time she’s ever not shared with her brothers (she’s a boy/girl twin) so has always had gender neutral bedrooms and decor. The biggest thing she wanted was pink and we ran with that all the way to the Christmas section. This actually was really easy to pull together and cost hardly anything. That’s the awesome thing about moving to a new house is you have no ‘but that goes HERE every year’ issue with moving decor into new rooms. This room tour is part of the Seasonal Simplicity Christmas series of home tours that my lovely friend Krista from The Happy Housie hosts. You can find all the beautiful homes and rooms in the series at the bottom of this post. So if pink ain’t your thing… scroll, baby, scroll ;)

We didn’t have a tree for her room but had a little one for the boys room. I’d promised her I’d get her one but of course left it to the VERY last minute and took her shopping December 1st and there were no mini trees. This was the smallest unless we wanted one that would go on your nightstand or desk (which she was not going for). She hauled it to the check out all on her own to prove that it wasn’t too big (she’s darn cute doing it too). So now she very happily has a four foot pre-lit multicolour tree in her room. She plugs it in every morning (I unplug it when she goes to school) and every evening, she plugs it back in to fall asleep by the lights (again, we turn it off for her). I can’t get over how much she loves her room and taking care of it since we designed it for her. And now that there’s Christmas in there, it is honestly just so magical.

Dec 05

DIY Wooden Trees Tablescape for the Holidays

Dec 05

*This post is sponsored by Cricut (who I love!). Find all my policies here*

So I finally did it, you guys! I CUT WOOD with my Cricut Maker. And I’m obsessed. I learned a few things along the way but out of all the random materials that I’ve tried cutting with the Maker… this went flawlessly. I’m really so impressed and ended up not only cutting the 3D wood trees for the centrepiece as I’d planned but also some little wooden tree place cards to coordinate!

Before I get to the DIY tutorial and some tips (and a video!)… let’s talk about the tablescape!

Dec 04

You’re Doing Great- December Tech Wallpaper + Printable!

Dec 04

December is HERE (well it was this past weekend already!). I’m going to keep this short and sweet because if you’re anything like me… this season is FULL. Of great things that you totally love. But a lot of it. So you don’t need to spend more time here other than to hear that YOU are doing great. Because no matter what, you’re doing the best you can and that’s enough. And hopefully you’re enjoying it too.

If you’re new to Lemon Thistle, every month, I create free handlettered backgrounds for you to download. I make each a quote version, a calendar version, and a monthly script version in each desktop, phone, and tablet sizes. You can take your pick! I also create a free printable 8×10 version of the quote for my e-mail friends. If you’re not yet signed up for my list, you can get in on the updates and freebies right here!

Enough with the chatter, am I right? JUST GIVE ME THE GOODS! Just click the linked words below to download the tech wallpapers!

Natural Autumn Home Tour

2019 Calendars - Free Printable 4 Styles

Modern Thanksgiving Tablescape

DIY Metallic Leather Passport Holder with Cricut

Personalizing the Holidays (Decor + Gifts!)

Modern Olive Green Kitchen Before + After!

DIY Wooden Sign + Hidden Essential Oil Storage (Free Plans!)

Girly Christmas Bedroom – Pink Holiday Decor

DIY Wooden Trees Tablescape for the Holidays

You’re Doing Great- December Tech Wallpaper + Printable!

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