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Colleen's Tutorials + Blog Posts

Colleen is the DIY blogger and author behind Lemon Thistle blog where she shares hands on DIY tutorials, home renovations, hand lettered designs, and projects to simplify your life… beautifully.

With a ‘you can make anything’ attitude, Colleen shares approachable projects and basic skills tutorials to help you do just that in her first book and weekly on her blog.

If you enjoy modern home decor (that’s totally cozy for your family!), saving money through DIY and simplified lifestyle- you’ll love the tutorials Colleen shares on LemonThistle.com. Find her @colleenpastoor everywhere else!

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Black + Textured Modern Master Bedroom Design Plans

In our last house, our master bedroom was the VERY last room to receive any kind of decor love. But this time around, we are excited to be working on it pretty early on! We just moved in this past summer and since then, have remodelled our kitchen, which resulted in flooring our entire main …

Read moreBlack + Textured Modern Master Bedroom Design Plans
The best way to store kids bikes! Bike hooks with small hooks for helmet- slat wall storage

Slat Wall Storage Tips

This post is sponsored by Home Depot Canada, but all opinions are my own. We shop their weekly regardless ;) Find all my policies right here. The garage is officially DONE you guys and the first thing I’m sharing from that space is these slat walls! I’ll have a full tour up next week so …

Read moreSlat Wall Storage Tips
Garage Interior Design Plans & Inspiration (with sources!)

Design Plans! Our Garage Workshop

My goodness, you guys! I’m so excited about this project! Shane and I have been married for 10 years this year and although we’ve always loved to make things… we’ve never had a place to really do that. When we were first married, I’d spray paint and use the borrowed tools I could get my …

Read moreDesign Plans! Our Garage Workshop

Bold + Modern DIY Botanical Mural

A mural?! Why yes, a mural! Do you ever see something online when you’re reading blogs or watching some of your favourite home decor shows and think that it’s perfect for a space in your home? That you want to try it for yourself or that if you make this change and this change it …

Read moreBold + Modern DIY Botanical Mural
DIY Macrame Garland for a Christmas tree... or just for your house!

DIY Macrame Garland – Spiral Knot Tutorial

Do you ever do that thing where you don’t have enough time/energy/whatever to finish something all the way, so you finish what NEEDS to be done and then plan to finish it in the morning. But then forget all about it? Yeah, that was me with this post! I shared this rad DIY macrame garland …

Read moreDIY Macrame Garland – Spiral Knot Tutorial
Holiday Baking with Kids- my tips to make it less stressful!

Holiday Baking with Kids (My Tips!)

Can I be really honest with you guys? Baking isn’t my favourite. I’m not bad at it. In fact my mom taught me well. Every year we would do holiday baking together for hours. And baking for every birthday and little holiday throughout the year. We didn’t just do basic shortbread either. Sugar cookies with …

Read moreHoliday Baking with Kids (My Tips!)
Such a pretty holiday mantel -modern and neutral

Personalizing the Holidays (Decor + Gifts!)

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 …

Read morePersonalizing the Holidays (Decor + Gifts!)
Grey Green Kitchen Tour with open shelving and bay windows

Modern Olive Green Kitchen Before + After!

Sharing our green kitchen before and after! All the details, sources and design choices from our modern olive green kitchen with stacked tile, light wood details and matte black fixtures and hardware. In the before and after video, I’ll share all our design dreams and how we balanced DIY and contractors to make it happen …

Read moreModern Olive Green Kitchen Before + After!
DIY Hidden Essential Oils Storage- Wood Sign!

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

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 …

Read moreDIY Wooden Sign + Hidden Essential Oil Storage (Free Plans!)
Cute little christmas tree in a girls bedroom

Girly Christmas Bedroom – Pink Holiday Decor

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 …

Read moreGirly Christmas Bedroom – Pink Holiday Decor

DIY Wooden Trees Tablescape for the Holidays

*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 …

Read moreDIY Wooden Trees Tablescape for the Holidays

Simple Frosted Holiday Mantel

Today I’m excited to be joining up with some of my favourite Canadian bloggers in a week long Canadian Blogger Home Tour hop again this season! You can find ALL of their amazing homes at the bottom of this post. I sat out of the fall home tour with this fabulous group and was determined …

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I’m Colleen: wife; mom to 4 wild ones; and DIY blogger behind Lemon Thistle. You can expect to see affordable DIY, cozy modern home decor, renovations, free printables, hand lettering and the occasional party on Lemon Thistle. Read More…

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