Author: angelagrace
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Christmas Bread Recipe (from Food Filled Life)
Christmas Bread Recipe via Cottage Magpie No holiday season would be complete unless we had food, don’t you think? I agree. So today we have a special treat for you! My friend Jillian from Food Filled Life is here to share one of her family’s traditional recipes. I just know you will love it! Barnes…
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5 Low-Cost Classic Christmas Activities
Five things you can do with your family at the holidays that are classic, fun, and relatively cheap.
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How to Make a Paper Snowflake Window Mobile
Learn how to hang paper snowflakes in a large window for a giant moving mobile of winter fun.
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How to Make 6-Pointed Paper Snowflakes
An infinite variety of 6-pointed paper snowflakes is yours to make with this simple step-by-step tutorial.
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Vintage-Inspired Master Bedroom Digital Makeover
When I told you about my thrifted mantel clock makeover, I mentioned that I had found several things while thrifting all summer, and this is one of them. I went to Goodwill a few weeks ago because I was looking for vintage sheets, and while I was there I got sucked into the entire bedding…
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How to Decorate a Halloween Mantel With Thrifted Finds
Thank you so much for all of your sweet comments about my Spooky October Mantel. I’m so thrilled to share that my mantel was also featured on The Inspired Room and Carter’s Cottage! Thank you, ladies! Now, I’d like to say that I had a grand plan and knew exactly what I was going to…
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Spooky October Mantel With Barns, Pumpkins and Cats
Remember this summer, how I pretended my piano was a mantel, and decorated it with a big ol’ faux vintage door on there was one that Mr. Magpie built for me? Well, when we decided to turn the living room into a study, we created one little eeny-weeny problem. (Dun dun DUUUUUUN…) The piano has…
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How to Rub’n’Buff Raised Letters or Numbers
So, when I told you about my thrifted mantel clock makeover, I may have left out one little thing. I had a little mini-fail right in the middle of the project. I’ve never used Rub’N’Buff before, and when painting the little raised numbers on the clock face, it all went wrong. Not once, but twice!!!…
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How to Take Apart a Battery Clock Movement
Yesterday when I told you about my thrifted mantel clock makeover, I mentioned that I disassembled the “clock part” so that I could sand and paint the clock, and I thought that you might be interested in exactly how I did that. So, technically, the part of the clock that makes it go is called…
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How to Makeover a Thrifted Mantel Clock
Over the summer I did a fair bit of thrifting and yard saleing, but I was too busy to do anything with all my finds. I didn’t even photograph most of them! Now that the harvest season business is settling down, and I find myself with little bits of time when I’m not frantically picking,…