Favorite Pins This Month {Favorite Things Friday}

Summer is such a busy, yet simultaneously, lazy time of year. Source Kids camps, vacations, laying by the pool... Pinterest I may not be blogging as regularly as usual but I still manage to peruse Pinterest almost daily - ha! An Urban Cottage Blog It's easy when there's an App for that!   Waiting for your kids at the … [Read more...]

10 Rustic Christmas Decorating Ideas

The Christmas season is officially here - my tree is up and the majority of my house is decorated. But, if you're anything like me, the decorating is never really done.  I always want to tweak things a little to suit my ever-changing mind.I've been pinning Christmas decorating ideas on Pinterest all year long and now I'm going through all my pins … [Read more...]

What Did We Do Before Pinterest?

Yes, I'm still on the topic of Pinterest.  I can't help myself.Today I saw this tip about removing hairspray from the bathroom.  Source:  Ask Anna What girl/woman doesn't have this struggle?  I'm going to give it a try and see what happens.  Sometimes these tips seem so super-cool that they couldn't possibly work. I've shared some of the … [Read more...]

Pinterest Inspired

I love Pinterest and I do a lot of pinning.  Source:  La Buena Vida The thing is, I pin all of these beautiful images and then I kind of forget about them.  Today I started browsing through some of my pins and got inspired all over again.  Here's just a few of the things that caught my eye today: Source  I adore this basket!  I wish I could … [Read more...]

Pinterest Project #2 – Keeping the Shower Clean

I've pinned a lot of cool tips, projects and ideas on Pinterest but quite honestly I haven't actually tried many of them.  So I recently decided that it's time I put some of these bright ideas to the test and then share the results with you.  A week or so ago I tried organizing my pot lids in my kitchen with a tension rod and although I couldn't do … [Read more...]

Kitchen Lid Organization

Awhile back I was browsing Pinterest and saw this idea: Source: The Complete Guide to Imperfect Homemaking blog How ingenious! She used a simple, cheap tension rod to organize pots and pans lids -- why didn't I think of this? I love it!Today I was at Walmart and saw the curtain rods and remembered this idea.  (Of course, I think of this idea … [Read more...]