Beachy Bedroom Retreat at Emerald Cove

Emerald Cove

With snow, cold and just plain blah end-of-winter, Michelle’s beachy bedroom makeover is a breath of fresh air, a special space to dream about vacation and warm breezes.  


Before was beautiful with sand inspired walls, board and batten and cottage comfort.

After – Michelle changes to pretty “Shoreline Mist” blue and fresh clean whites with an airy atmosphere.  So inspiring!



I love her driftwood accents – especially the driftwood garland.

Beautiful r
uffled gray bedding.  ((scribbling on my wishlist))


See that beautiful mantel?

Michelle is a DIY diva – check out her faux mantel how-to.
Vintage-inspired beauty. 

So, what do you think?  Inspires beachy daydreams, doesn’t it?  Here’s a sneak peek of some of the things you’ll see…

Screen door locker!

Kitchen Makeover

Get inspired, visit Michelle at 

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Thanks for sharing your beautiful beachy bedroom Michelle!  I hope you don’t mind a few visitors – at least we’re only online visiting so no need to clean up and the cats don’t have to share. 😉  

Personalized DIY Chalkboard

My nephew’s birthday is coming up soon.  Being a mom to two girls, I’m a little clueless when it comes to boys.  However, we’ve had a piece of chipboard from furniture packaging just sitting around waiting for a DIY idea.  I decided to make my nephew a personalized chalkboard for his birthday.
Materials:
Recycled chipboard (Could also be directly applied to smooth walls with taping off a blackboard shape.)
Decor Art Americana Chalkboard Paint
Gorilla Glue tape – Handy 1″ Roll
Vinyl decals
Chalk and eraser
I found that using an Xacto knife to remove intricate parts of the vinyl design is more helpful than using a fingernail. 
I purchased the bike and LD Survivor font from the Silhouette online store.

See the full tutorial at the DIY Club!


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THIS JUST IN – Miranda from Just Drink Coke is hosting a new linky party called 
“The Reality Collection”!  With the popularity of reality tv, she is hosting a party about real life – your beautiful mess.  Like she says, it happens to the best of us. It happens to all of us.  So share your beautiful mess – you don’t have to spend a lot of time making it like you do with DIY, it’s probably already made.  She’s right. 

My pictures above are close ups but below is me zooming out. I displayed the chalkboard on the dining room wall for photo purposes. I am more of an “organized messer”. This my beautiful mess. The others are ugly messes not meant for blog friends’ eyes! Trust me. You’d be scared.  

Do you do this too – zoom the unwanted things out of your ‘after’ shots? 



Share your reality at 

Just Drink a Coke.


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TGIF ~ Giveaway Alert x 3

It’s Friday!  


That means the TGIF giveaway at the DIY Club! THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.


Prizes this weekend …

6 clay tags of your choice!


Natural Gourmet 3 Layer Bird Seed Cake
Natural Gourmet Three Layer Bird Seed Cake


from our sweet & talented blog friend,  Jami, at 
Giveaway at
DIY Club

2 ways to enter!  

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I recently had the pleasure of discovering a beautiful and inspirational new blog. 

You’ll want to enter this giveaway too (or not – because I’d love to win!)
Lilies and Dandelions


Giveaway package will include
1~ 10″ x 12 1/2″ bag filled with 3/4 pound of dried organic lavender, which can be used to refill your sachets
6~ 3″x 4″ lavender dryer sachets


1 bundle of dried organic lavender


Total weight of lavender in the package is 1 pound.




In addition, a little something special from Restoration Hardware.

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