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Mackinaw Road: Favorite Beauty Products
Hi there! Once again, I am definitely not a fashion or beauty blogger but I thought it might be fun to update the beauty products I’m loving as we enter 2022. I think that almost all of the items came recommended by family or friends. **DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Beauty Products In addition to my face wash, I’ve been using this facial scrub every few days and am loving it. I also recently bought this face cream because it combined the two things that I think my 40-something face…
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Colonial Home: Kid Bedrooms
While our primary bedroom and bathroom remain untouched despite the need for updates, our kids’ bedrooms keep getting tweaked. I’ll go into more detail below but thought it might be fun to share some kid bedroom updates that have happened over the past year or so. I’ve also included progress photos as we take a little trip down memory lane. In general, our colonial home changes are a slow burn with adjustments made here and there. Let’s begin our tour.
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Happy New Year 2022!
I hope you all had a nice holiday season! The plaid-on-plaid in the dining room may have put me over the edge. There was a fairly quick clear out of Christmas New Year’s weekend. A few winter items remain though. I thought it might be fun to share a quick list of possible New Year 2022 projects and posts with you this week. *This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! January is always a “get organized” sort of month. I bought these glass storage containers last year. I was nervous about the glass being difficult to keep clean,…
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A Plaid Christmas: The Dining Room
Hi again! Back-to-back blog posts can only mean one thing… the kids will soon be on winter break. As you can read a bit about in this post (and this one), the picture frame molding made it up just in time for Thanksgiving. We also hosted a small work gathering last weekend, so that was also on my mind as we hurried to finish the project. What is more classic in a colonial home that picture frame molding? A Plaid Christmas of course. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive a small commission. Thank you! A Plaid Christmas: The Dining…
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Christmas Living Room Styling
Christmas Living Room Styling is one of the most fun (and sometimes frustrating) activities of the year for me! This year, I am attempting to slowly add in a green and black color scheme. With all of the other colors mixed in too. Of course. Because there is no avoiding red (and/or plaid) at our house-haha! DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! Last week, I finally had a chance to sort through all of the decorations that were thrown up in the pure excitement of the season! We almost always go to the Christmas Tree Farm…
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Mackinaw Road: November Updates
As happens this time of year, the days are flying by and we are already into December- yikes and yay! Here is what November looked like for us. It included putting up Picture Frame Molding, Thanksgiving and The Day After (with the smartest pie I’ve come across), Christmas Shopping, and Christmas Decorating. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! Picture Frame Molding- Another Tidbit One of the biggest activities this month was putting up the picture frame molding in the dining room and painting it white. I love how it turned out and had so much fun…
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Holiday Dining Room on Mackinaw Road
Hi! I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving Weekend!! This post is probably 10 days too late, but here it is just the same. I do think that it is versatile enough that some of the ideas could easily be incorporated into a Christmas table, too. Here is our Holiday Dining Room. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! Last year for Thanksgiving, our table was on a much more traditional level. (You can check it out here.) This year, however, I was scrambling. Gretchen and I added picture frame molding to the room and I…
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Gift Guide: Gift Ideas for Him
Hi there! I shared this guide over on Instagram and Like to Know It a couple of weeks ago but just realized I never shared it here. So, below are some Gift Ideas for Him just in time for Cyber Monday. *DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! As I did with this guide, I almost always save the Guy Gifts for last because they are the most difficult gifts for me to buy, which is funny because really all of the guys in my life (Husband, Dad, Dad-in-Law, Brother, Brothers-in-Law) seem super easy going and happy…
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Gift Guide: Gift Ideas for Her
Hi there! I’m back with some Gift Ideas for Her. Here is a round up of gifts for your moms, sisters, daughters, etc. etc. Some are items that I’ve given in the past and others are new to me but look really nice. This list’s main theme is cozy and warm! So, here we go… This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! You can click the bold links or the pictures below to shop. Gift Ideas for Her- At Home Cozy With colder weather approaching, gifts focusing on warmth and coziness are at the top of my mind.…
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Gift Guide: Tween Girl Gifts
The Gift Guides continue with a gift list for our tween. She looked over the list and approved of (almost) all the items. I’ll take it. Yay! Read on for a round up of Tween Girl Gifts. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! You can click the bold links or the photos to be taken to the product.
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