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  • Room Inspiration: Necessary Room at the Fairfield House

    I’ve got an e-friend named Deborah who is, hands down, one of the sweetest people I’ve ever e-met. Her blog (FairfieldHouseNJ.com) is always a pleasure to read, and one of her latest posts was about a “necessary room” they recently … Continue reading

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    Annie Sloan (and Shaunna West!)

    We’ve got this piece of furniture in our hallway. It’s handy, and it’s dandy, but I’ve been dying to spruce it up with a little color… I’ve also got a handy-dandy friend, who lives just down the road a piece. … Continue reading

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    Valentines Day Crafts – Banner DIY

    Working with EGC on this project was an absolute treat and when he showed up at our house with a box full of stripey straws and itty bitty milk bottles, and a 5-gallon bucket full of flowers, I knew I … Continue reading

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    Valentines Day Crafts – Table Runner & Vintage Dishes

    What do you get when you cross some leftover zig-zag fabric, with a bunch of darling doilies and hankies? A sweet little table runner, of course! We used it on our Valentines Day tablescape, but I wanted to photograph it … Continue reading

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    Valentines Day Crafts – Paper Fortune Cookie

    Alright, now that you’ve met my partner in crime aft, Mr. EGC, let’s get this Valentine’s Day decorating ideas party started, shall we?! First up- our paper fortune cookie tutorial… You’ll need some pretty, double-sided scrapbook paper. I got mine at … Continue reading

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    Valentines Day Crafts

    Question: What do you get when you cross an Evan Garrett Cooper with a Lettered Cottage Layla in the month of February? (pictured above: Evan Garrett Cooper, the “wonder wall” in our dining room, and an Etsy calendar ) Answer: A dining room … Continue reading

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    Room Inspiration – Kristin Alber Style

    I stumbled onto a home tour online a couple of weeks ago, that instantly had me scooting my chair up closer to my monitor. There were so many little details I wanted to lock in my brain! The house is … Continue reading

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    INTERIOR Design

    I like writing about all kinds of things, but it seems like I’m most drawn to blogging about interior design… and INTERIOR design… Today I feel drawn to the latter, but I never really know what I’m going to feel like … Continue reading

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    Word of the Year – Link Party (2012)

    Welcome to our “This Little Word Of Mine” link party! If you’d like to link up your word of the year blog post, just look for the little blue “Add Link” button at the bottom of this post. Many of you … Continue reading

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    This Little Word Of Mine: A Song & A Suggestion

    I was inspired to call this Monday’s link party “This Little Word Of Mine” because of a sweet story my friend, Traci, shared with me in Nashville last month. It had to do with her, (then) 3-year-old son, Jonathan, singing … Continue reading

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    Water for Christmas

    Two days ago we were $3,545 away from digging a well for 500 families that currently don’t have access to fresh water… …but in the past 48 hours dozens of friendly folks donated enough dollars to push this effort 3% over the goal… … Continue reading

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    People Helping People

    One of my very best friends in the whole weird world lives 700 miles away, but every time I visit her blog I feel like I’m sitting right there at her little blue desk with her. A few months ago, … Continue reading

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    Christmas Ideas For The Home

    I had a chance to hang out with my friend (and fellow Auburn Tiger fan!), Amanda, a couple months back… I had so much fun talking a mile a minute about a million different things with her! We went to … Continue reading

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    Christmas Advent

    Hi Lettered Cottage readers, I’m Beckie from Infarrantly Creative, Knock Off Décor and Roadkill Rescue. Yep. I am a tri-blogger — in love with knock-off projects, curbside finds, and inexpensive craft and décor ideas. It is a huge honor to … Continue reading

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    Pumpkin Coffee Cake

    We pulled into my aunt and uncle’s driveway just as the sun was slipping below the horizon line on Sunday night. Their newly-installed turbine was just a’spinnin’ in the breeze, and wow what an awesome sight that was! It’s the … Continue reading

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    The Twice Remembered Cottage

    I drove up to Symrna, Tennessee on Monday, and spent a couple of days with my friend Kim… Her blog, The Twice Remembered Cottage, was the very first blog I ever had the pleasure of stumbling onto… What an awesome … Continue reading

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    Design TV – Pilot Episode

    We’re back from Suwanee, Georgia- and the room we re-did for our pilot episode for HGTV is done! It was an exciting/fast-paced five days, and we’re thrilled with how the Morrison’s living room turned out! (More importantly- so were they! … Continue reading

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    Search Is Redirected

    I got a really helpful email from a friendly TLC reader this past week (thank you Wendy!), and I wanted to share it with you in case the same thing was going on over at your place, and you weren’t … Continue reading

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    The Handmade Home

    …and speaking of Cottages & Bungalows- the other day we had fun shooting a room over at Ashley and Jamin’s house that’ll hopefully appear (fingers crossed!) in the mag at some point or another. (Holy tripod-handle-up-the-nose Batman! LOL!) We can’t post … Continue reading

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