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15 Stylish Hostess and Entertaining Ideas

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Happy Wednesday! As my kids and I prep for the new school year, I am feeling sad about the end of summer. I am super excited, though, about fall entertaining! The fall is a wonderful time to have friends and family over for dinners and get-togethers. So I am really happy to share with you a fun collection I curated for Hometalk with 15 Stylish Hostess ideas! The collection has lots great ideas from some really terrific bloggers on how to make your guests feel at home when entertaining this fall. Hometalk is the largest online home and garden knowledge hub, and is a place where Continue reading...

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Sunny & Bright Living Room

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*Mohawk Home provided an area rug for this makeover.  Hi, everyone! I have been loving my new living room! It has been through quite a transformation. It has gone from an unattractive area with two toy boxes and lots of toys, to a space that actually looks like a grown-up  and complete room! My kids, who are now tweens, are enjoying the more sophisticated space, too! Since friends have asked where I found  my furniture and decor for my new living room, I've decided to follow the lead of fellow blogger Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog and create a source list for my new living room. Abby Continue reading...

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Scrapbook Paper Art Gallery Wall

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*This post contains Amazon.com affiliate links. I am going to the Haven Conference this week, so I have been very busy packing and getting ready! But before I leave for the conference, I want to share with you what I did with the framed scrapbook art I created – I made a new gallery wall for my newly furnished living room! I'd love to show you how to create your own gallery wall! I just love how my new living room came out! The room used to be pretty much empty and only housed a piano and two toy chests. Now, it's a spot where my daughters and I like to sit and read, or look out the Continue reading...

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Framed Scrapbook Paper Art

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Hey, everyone! Are you ready for summer? I sure am! To get ready for summer, I decided to add some colorful art to my home’s living room. I recently redesigned my home’s living room and I am having fun bringing fun prints and colors into the room. I didn’t want to pay a lot for new art for the room, so I decided to make my own custom DIY art with scrapbook paper! To get started with my scrapbook paper art, I looked for scrapbook paper in colors that make me feel happy! I found some great scrapbook paper on sale at my local craft store for just $5 a pack! Can't beat that. The Continue reading...

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Kids Bedrooms

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*This post contains affiliate and sponsored links. Finding enough storage in kids bedrooms can be tough, but if you buy furniture and accessories with storage in mind, you should be able to find plenty of storage for kids rooms. My daughters, 11, are twins and enjoy sharing a room. So, when I chose the children’s furniture for their kids room, I chose children’s furniture that would give us the most space as possible for storing their things. Their room is fairly large, but not that big, considering that we must fit two twin beds in there, a dresser, and as many places as possible Continue reading...

Psychology of Paint Colors for the Home

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A friend of mine has a red dining room, while I have a yellow kitchen and a green bedroom. Red is a popular color for dining rooms, while yellow is a common kitchen color. I am not sure how popular green is as a bedroom color, but I am sure I'm not the first person to choose the soothing hue for bedroom walls! Do you ever wonder why certain colors get chosen for certain rooms of a home? The Painters of Louisville have the answer! They have a fun infographic that explains the "psychology of color" and why certain colors are good choices for specific rooms. For example, red is a good choice Continue reading...

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Mom Home Guide House Tour

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*This post contains affiliate links. I just love looking at online house tours of other mom bloggers’ homes. To me, my home is a work in progress. Over the past few months, I’ve completed a few home improvements, like decorating and furnishing my home's living room, making my home’s mudroom/foyer area more functional, creating a fun study/media/play space for the kids and adding more privacy to my home’s backyard. There are several more projects I’d like to complete — some of the wishes on my wish list include hardwood flooring and making our unfinished basement more livable, but I am not Continue reading...

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Prep Your Outdoor Spaces for Summer

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Editor's Note: I am working on some new projects for the blog today, so I thought I'd share this post from Mom Home Guide's archives. Many of these projects are on my to-do list for this year: I really need to paint the Adirondack chairs and I have to plant my flower tower for this summer! I am a HUGE fan of Sarah, who runs the Thrifty Decor Chick mom / home decor blog. I want to ready my outdoor spaces for summer entertaining, so I decided to check out her blog, Thrifty Decor Chick. Sarah has an incredible eye for design and is a fantastic DIYer! Plus, her home is beautiful! Continue reading...

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Crushing on Garden Stools

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Memorial Day Blow-Out! Enjoy up to 70% off everything you need for the weekend.  * This post contains affiliate links. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine. One of the hottest decor trends I've seen this year is the popularity of garden stools, sometimes called "drum tables." These design accents, often made out of ceramic or shimmery metal, are fun and versatile. Garden stools come in a wide variety of shades, including white, silver, gold, greens, blues, reds and yellows. The use of these drum-shaped stools are said to have originated in China at least 1,000 years ago, Continue reading...

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Coupons.com #SuperheroMom Giveaway

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*This post is sponsored by Coupons.com. I received a Target gift card from Coupons.com for this post -- the gift card helped me make my living room remodel happen. (I used the gift card towards a new accent chair!) The living room in my home has always been a family-friendly space. For most of the 11 years we’ve lived in our home, the living room has been a play space and housed only a piano, two toy boxes and some toys. Now that my children are older, I’ve taken back the space and turned it into a bright and pretty sitting room! To celebrate my home’s beautiful new room, I am Continue reading...

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Easy Cloth Napkin Pillows

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Hello! I am back talking about easy DIY pillows again. (I last posted about my cloth placemat pillows.) As you probably know, I am in LOVE with my new Mohawk Home area rug, and my La-Z-Boy sofa, which I adore dressing up and making look pretty. So, when I  found 4-packs of cloth napkins on sale at Target for less than $3 a pack, I had to snag them! I just love the pretty prints. I knew I could transform the cloth napkins into DIY cloth napkin pillows for my new La-Z-Boy sofa! I bought three packs of the cloth napkins. Since four napkins are in each pack, I could make Continue reading...

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DIY Simple Placemat Pillows

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I am loving the yellow and green placemat pillows that I made for my brand-new La-Z-Boy sofa! These sofa throw pillows were so easy to make -- I simply made them by stuffing two-sided cloth placemats with pillow stuffing! It took me only about 20 minutes to make these pillows -- I actually finished stitching them when the truck that delivered my new sofa pulled into my driveway! Talk about last minute! Simple Placemat Pillows I love how the yellow and white and green and white and yellow pillows add pops of color to the sofa. I also adore the edging around the pillows -- I didn't Continue reading...

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And the Mohawk Home Giveaway Winner Is…

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The recent Mohawk Home area rug on Mom Home Guide has been the most successful giveaway on Mom Home Guide yet! There were more than 4,000 entries! I can see why ... Mohawk home makes such beautiful rugs. I know that I am totally loving my Mohawk Twill area rug (in gold). I paired the rug with my new La-Z-Boy sofa in my living room, and I think that my new chevron rug from Mohawk Home totally makes the room! (Thanks, Mohawk Home!) Mohawk Home Area Rug Winner The giveaway winner of the Mohawk Home Area Rug, who was chosen randomly by Rafflecopter, is Kelly T! Kelly, you have 48 hours to Continue reading...

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Brother P-Touch Label Maker and Ebook Giveaway

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This year has been an exciting one! My friend, Cristin Frank, has published her ebook, "Rooms Repurposed."Mom Home Guide is featured in the book!  To celebrate her official ebook launch, she is giving away a Brother P-touch label maker and a copy of her ebook. Of course, I LOVE the book -- one of the rooms featured in the ebook is my friend Christine's gorgeous black and white craft room! To get in the running for the labeler and the ebook, just enter the Rafflecopter form below. The giveaway ends May 1. Frank's book is full of great ideas for making the spaces in Continue reading...

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Mohawk Rug Giveaway and Review

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My new living room sofa from La-Z-Boy came last week, and I am so happy! I love the way the new sofa (the Kennedy sofa in “acorn”) looks against the new Mohawk rug that was given to me by Mohawk Home! What’s great is that Mohawk Home will give a Mohawk rug at a value of up to $150 (reader's choice) to one of Mom Home Guide's readers, too! To participate in the Mohawk rug giveaway, just enter the Rafflecopter form in this post!     Mohawk Chevron Area Rug For my home’s living room I chose the Mohawk Twill woven area rug in gold. The 60" x 84" Mohawk Twill woven area rug Continue reading...

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Painted Craft Birdhouses

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Monday was my kids' first day back to school after a week with the flu. My husband, kids and I all got a bad case of the flu this month, even though we all got our flu shots! Having the kids home for a whole week got a little tough at the end. Even though my kids were under the weather, they were starting to get bored! Luckily, I had some craft supplies and a box of acrylic craft paints on hand, and my daughters and I spent a fun afternoon together painting birdhouses! The birdhouses and paints are relatively inexpensive and can be found at just about any craft store. DIY Painted Continue reading...

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Happy Spring Crafts

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I can't tell you how happy I am that it is now spring! The winter was a tough one for my family, what with my broken wrist and my family's recent bout of the flu. Here's hoping for a healthy and happy spring! New Spring Flowers When I was outside today, I was thrilled to see that some of my flowers are beginning to poke up through the soil. It looks like my tulips are starting to grow, and some of my flowers in my southern exposure garden are starting to break through the soil, too! My family is just starting to get better from the flu, so I wasn't able to tackle any Continue reading...

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“Tweet” Burlap and Chevron Wreath

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I am so excited that spring starts this month! So, I just had to get started on crafting new spring décor for my home. I first got started by making a spring wreath for my house. My kids and I have been enjoying watching the birds eat at a feeder we placed just outside our home’s living room window this winter. I knew that I wanted my spring wreath to look a little bit like a bird’s nest, since my daughters and I are such big birdwatchers! I thought a grapevine wreath would work perfectly for my project, since grapevine wreaths are relatively inexpensive, look pretty much like birds’ Continue reading...

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Countdown Until Spring & Craft Magnets

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OK -- enough already! I am so sick of winter! The temperatures are down in the 20s today, and I can't take it! But at least I can take comfort in the cute bird and springtime magnets that I made the other day for my refrigerator door. It makes me think that spring can't be too far off! I can see them right now as I write this post from my "home office" -- the kitchen table! I just love springtime crafts! I found the materials for my fridge craft magnets when I was out shopping for fabric at my local craft store. I have been planning a big redesign for my home's living room, and was out Continue reading...

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New Living Room Design

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A new sofa is due to arrive soon for my home’s living room, so I have been working on designing a new living room design scheme for our "new" living room! With the exception of a piano and some toy chests, our living room has never had much in it -- it's always been more of an open play space for the kids! Modern Living Room Design Now that my kids spend more time reading on their Kindles and playing games on their Ipods, I've decided that it's time to take back the living room! I would like to take down the heavy drapes and replace them with something more fun and colorful, Continue reading...

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