Hi Guys!  I hope your Friday is going well!  I’m just popping in with a really quick and inexpensive advent calendar idea today.  Isn’t it cute?! And it’s so simple, I’m telling you.  My girls have a half day today, and we’re going to spend it baking!  Yay! We’re all pretty excited about it.  But anyway, one of my instagram friends tagged me to play along with a new hashtag called the #15and15project this week.  You finish a project in 15 minutes for $15, and then share it on instagram.  It’s just starting out, but I’m so excited to see all of the inspiration it’s going to bring together.  I have to say that this project will end up costing a bit more than $15 if you need to go out and buy everything…

Somewhere around $30, but if you consider how much really cute advent calendars cost, that’s really not all that bad!  Plus, it’s really simple, really quick, and super fun to put together. LOVE projects like that.  I’ve had the majority of this stuff sitting in my craft box for years, so I’m considering it to be almost free for me! 🙂 [Read more…]

Hi Friends! How’s your week been going? It was kind of cold and dreary here today, but guess what? It’s super cozy in my living room! I’m so excited to share what I’ve been up to for Christmas this year, along with some tips for getting decked out on a budget today!

Ayla’s sitting at my feet right now coloring a picture, and Jenna and Aubrey are intermittently playing/sulking in the kitchen. They’re slightly upset because we forgot about what would have been their first field hockey practice today. Ugh. Major parenting fail moment. Ironically, just before we figured out that we’d missed it, my husband and I were having a little ‘meeting,’ trying to make plans for tomorrow and talking over how crazy busy things have been, but how we’ve somehow been managing to juggle it all. [Read more…]

Hello Friends!  I hope you’ve all been enjoying your week.  We’ve been feverishly working away on that little playroom project that I told you all about a few weeks ago, and guess what?  It’s reveal day! I’m so excited to finally be able to share this project with you.  It’s been a crazyyyy couple of weeks, and I feel like the worst blogger of all time!  I’m in awe of all of the talented bloggers who manage to get up 2 or 3 posts a week.  I feel like I’ve been getting posts up pretty much at the pace of a lazy snail.  Sorry about that, and thanks for putting up with me 🙂  I swear I haven’t been being lazy!  I’m juggling a million different projects at the moment.  Ok, 3.  I’m feeling dramatic today.  But, honestly, it feels like a million!  And I’d also like to say thank you to all of you who’ve reached out to me this week with kind words and encouragement!  You’ve all made me smile and inspired me to keep at this blogging endeavor, so thank you ♥

But let’s look at some of the adorableness, shall we?!?! Come on in to this sweet little space…

If you’ve been following along from the beginning, you may remember my design plan and me saying that I had a cool idea involving birch branches under way.  Well, here they are!  I’m so happy with how they turned out. [Read more…]

Hi there! I hope life has been treating you well this week.  We’ve had a pretty crazy one, and it’s only Tuesday!  But, oh my goodness, the weather these last few days! It’s been warm and sunny and just perfectly sublime, so I was pretty thrilled to have an excuse to be outside today making this darling little arrow you see up there. [Read more…]

I’ve been feeling pretty nostalgic this week – I’m not sure why.

Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been wrapping up an adorable little playroom project, or the fact that my two oldest have been making breakfast for the family, all by themselves for the last couple of months. Whipping up scrambled eggs on the hot plate that their Oma bought them for Christmas last year, giggling and disagreeing about how much salt to put in. How did they go from toddling around and needing diaper changes, to making breakfast?! [Read more…]

Hey there, Everybody!  I hope your week’s off to a great start.   I have a simple Thanksgiving table to show you all today! And you don’t have to break the bank setting it either.

See? Ain’t it cute?  And it’s so simple to put together. Really. [Read more…]

Hey Everyone! I have a really fun no-sew pillow cover tutorial for you today!

I wish I could take the credit for thinking up this simple little project, but I can’t. I actually came across it a couple of years ago on a blog called Organize & Decorate Everything. Let me just tell you, this is such an awesome way to change the look of your space without spending a bunch of money – particularly at the holidays – if you have a bit a fabric laying around.

In the past, I’ve made these with curtains, sheets, older wool blankets, the options are endless really. And I’ve wanted to share this with you for so long, but just haven’t had a chance to take the photos and get this post up! I can’t imagine why! It’s not like we’re busy over here or anything. *wink.* Life can just get crazy, can’t it?

Speaking of which, you should have heard how loud my house was after dinner tonight. I’m not sure how 3 kiddos can somehow sound like 23, but let me tell you, it’s possible. I’m sure some of you can relate. We try our best to keep things in balance over here – the projects, our work, our family time [Read more…]

Hey there!  I can’t believe it’s already been almost a week since my last post!  I had every intention of having this up last weekend, but that turned out to be wishful thinking.  My mother in law is visiting from Germany right now, and we decided to do something we haven’t done with her in eight years! We went on a little getaway. Normally when she’s here, we sink into our normal, fairly humdrum routine, and before we know it, three weeks have gone by and the most exciting thing we’ve done together is grocery shop!  We decided to take the kids out of school and head up to the White Mountains in New Hampshire for a couple of days, then spend the last few in Kennebunkport, Maine.  I planned to pack Saturday night after the birthday party, write and post the birthday photos Sunday morning, and then head on our merry way.  Well, yeah.  That did not happen. [Read more…]

If you follow my Willow Street Interiors page on Facebook, you may have read that I have a special post and a giveaway coming up this week.  Well, this is that post!  A little backstory.  World Market is one of my favorite places to shop. The place is like Disney World for grown ups.  Seriously, so much cute stuff under one roof it gives me minor heart palpitations.  I cyber stalk their website on a weekly basis drooling over their adorable accessories and really reasonably priced, good quality furniture. A couple of weeks ago, my sister (who knows how obsessed I am with World Market) called me and said, “Did you know there’s a World Market opening in Natick?!” [Read more…]

Happy Sunday, Everyone! It’s been such a gorgeous weekend. Perfect weather, a little relaxation and catching up with housework, breakfast on the porch – all in all a fabulous weekend that culminated in devouring this luscious cake (that also happens to be gluten free). My oldest daughter is turning 8 this week, and we’re having a little fall themed birthday party with family next weekend. [Read more…]