My daughter has been a busy little bee -- have fun exploring this gallery of all the projects at 320 Sycamore! It will eventually be found at the project gallery tab and will updated frequently.
Utah Home Tour
Utah Front Porch Decor
Utah Home Tour
Virginia Home Tour
Texas Home Tour
Artwork/Display Ideas
Spring
Summer
Autumn & Thanksgiving
Winter
Christmas
Valentines
Halloween
Bathroom
Furniture
Kitchen
Laundry
Lighting
Crafts & Little Projects/Makeovers
Organization
Recipes
*please click over to pin from the original sites – thank you!!
* I loved this article from Jen Hatmaker last year: Worst End of School Year Mom Ever and also
this one from Buzzfeed: Parents at the beginning of the year and end of the school year.
Greek Pasta Salad from Just a Taste:
If you remember from our home plans, we have a front porch! I’ve never had a front porch before, so this was so much fun. While things are getting finished up on the inside, I decided to make the front porch a little more inviting:
First up was an old library cart I bought from the online classifieds for $15:
Hello, friends! We just moved into our new home this past weekend. It feels so good to be in one spot and not to be driving back and forth between our rental and the house, the schools and everything over here. We are up to our ears in moving boxes and craziness, so I’m going to show you pictures of the only room that isn’t chaotic right now: the master bathroom. This room is long and skinny (you can see it on the floor plan here) so taking pictures was a trick, but please come in!
We went with the darker wood cabinets to give a little contrast to the sea of gray and white.
Did you know that wood stained cabinets are actually less expensive than paint grade cabinets?? Because they don’t have to be perfect and smooth like you expect white cabinets to be. Imperfections and knots are perfectly acceptable.
For the counters, we went with a carrara marble. We had it in our bathroom in Virginia and we loved it, so we chose it again. It is softer and scratches and etches easily so I would NOT recommend it for high traffic areas or kids’ bathrooms, but I figured my husband and I could handle it. The cabinet hardware is from the Jeffrey Alexander Belcastel collection.
It’s almost been a year since we’ve been here and we are loving it. As with any move, you can’t help but notice the customs and little tendencies about your new state:
10. It is so family friendly and deal friendly – family passes and discounts everywhere. The pool, bumper boats, discount theaters, miniature golf, baseball and basketball games. There are always good deals to be found!
We are moving in this week! So, I haven’t collected a lot of Caught My Eye, but here are some deals for you – these are the prices when I hit publish, they can change or run out at anytime:
* Children’s Place, today (Friday, 5/16 only) 40% off everything with code FORTY3 at checkout.
* Target has a new $10 off $50 food purchase coupon! Just text FOOD to 827438 to get the coupon
* Sam’s Club: for new members only: for $45 you can get a Sam’s Club membership for a year, a $20 Sam's Club Gift Card, a 16” pizza, cheesecake squares, and a 5X7 canvas print with stand. Whoa! Go to zulily.com and search Sam’s Club.
* sign up with Jamba Juice Rewards and get $3 off your next visit, plus a free smoothie on your birthday.
* Kmart has 12 ft trampolines with enclosures for $189, free in-store pickup: Sportspower and Propel
Amazon:
* lowest price ever: Rubbermaid 42-Piece Easy Find Lid Food Storage Set
$15.99
* Sharpies! Fine Point
$4.48 Ultra Fine Point $5
* Fiskars 48-Piece Gel Pen Set
$13.54
* Black & Decker 6-Cup Rice Cooker
$13.99
* Black & Decker One-Touch Chopper
$12.59
* Mirro Pressure Cooker 4-Quart
$28
* Intex Queen Airbed
$15.99
for Father’s Day?
* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Combo Pack
$9.99
* Commercial Kitchen Aprons, 2 pack $7.99
* Armor All Car Care Kit
$9.99 when you clip the coupon on the page
* Suisse Sport Mummy Sleeping Bag
$29.92
* Coleman Montana 8 person tent
$119
* Stanley 65-Piece Tool Kit
Kids:
* Disney FROZEN Dress Up Trunk
$25
* LEGO Minecraft The Nether
$28.35
Happy Weekend, everyone! You can still enter for the Sherwin Williams $50 gift card here.
* Children’s Place, today (Friday, 5/16 only) 40% off everything with code FORTY3 at checkout.
* Target has a new $10 off $50 food purchase coupon! Just text FOOD to 827438 to get the coupon
* Sam’s Club: for new members only: for $45 you can get a Sam’s Club membership for a year, a $20 Sam's Club Gift Card, a 16” pizza, cheesecake squares, and a 5X7 canvas print with stand. Whoa! Go to zulily.com and search Sam’s Club.
* sign up with Jamba Juice Rewards and get $3 off your next visit, plus a free smoothie on your birthday.
* Kmart has 12 ft trampolines with enclosures for $189, free in-store pickup: Sportspower and Propel
Amazon:
* lowest price ever: Rubbermaid 42-Piece Easy Find Lid Food Storage Set
$15.99* Sharpies! Fine Point
$4.48 Ultra Fine Point $5 * Fiskars 48-Piece Gel Pen Set
$13.54* Black & Decker 6-Cup Rice Cooker
$13.99 * Black & Decker One-Touch Chopper
$12.59* Mirro Pressure Cooker 4-Quart
$28* Intex Queen Airbed
$15.99for Father’s Day?
* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Combo Pack
$9.99* Commercial Kitchen Aprons, 2 pack $7.99
* Armor All Car Care Kit
$9.99 when you clip the coupon on the page* Suisse Sport Mummy Sleeping Bag
$29.92* Coleman Montana 8 person tent
$119* Stanley 65-Piece Tool Kit
Kids:
* Disney FROZEN Dress Up Trunk
$25* LEGO Minecraft The Nether
$28.35 Happy Weekend, everyone! You can still enter for the Sherwin Williams $50 gift card here.
Thanks to my fabulous sister, Kristin for the heads up on this one! She always has good things up her sleeve.
*** Deal is now over, sorry. ***
Stock up for teacher gifts! I love what eighteen 25 did with the soaps for teacher gifts – click on over for the free printable.
Happy Tuesday--
One of my favorite features at 320 Sycamore is the annual “Some Things I’ve Learned About Being a Mom.” Last year I wrote about being a Mom and here are the past articles – wonderful posts from some extraordinary women with different backgrounds and mothering styles. It’s perfect reading for Mother’s Day weekend!
Today, I’m going to share some things I’ve learned from my own Mom about being a Mom. Here name is Susan, I call her Shuze (don’t even know how that came to be) Right now, we are missing her – she is in Tahiti serving a church mission with my Dad for 18 months, but thank goodness for google hangouts!
I found 2 of these dressers at a local thrift store for $25 each. I loved them because they were lower for my 2 youngest boys to reach, they were solid wood with dovetail drawers, and they were matching—there were 2!
The prep always seems to take longest but is the most important step – taking out the drawers, removing hardware, wiping them down, and sanding rough edges.
Brooke at All Things Thrifty office makeover:
* a side yard makeover from Tonya at A Love of Family and Home:
Oooh, this was a tough one. There are so many good choices out there these days! Here are some favorites that I narrowed down to that were under $5 each. Except, I lied. As I was typing this up, I realized #6 was $5.97. But I really don’t want to go back into photoshop and re-do, so will you let it pass?
#4 was in our Virginia home (love them!) and I’ll run over and take pictures of what we chose for the kitchen in our new home to show you. Nope, we still haven’t moved in, but working on it and hope it is very soon!
Do any of these catch your eye? Or link up favorites you have found in the comments – I do love a good pull, knob or handle!
and almost choked at the $8 price tag (for ice cube trays??) for a 2-pack. But they got great reviews so we went ahead--just watch for 8 seconds as we demonstrate the power of a good ice cube tray:
I wish we would have discovered them 8 months ago!! Buy the good ones, trust me.
Welcome to the last weekend of April and the latest edition of CME! Please be considerate and click on over to the sites and pin directly from the original blogs – thank you!
* Alicia’s office reveal at Vintage Revivals:
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