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vintage toy nursery reveal - using mom and dad's childhood toys to decorate a nursery; pops of pink make it a pretty, cozy, and feminine space.

Vintage Toy Nursery Reveal

May 2, 2020May 2, 2020Leave a comment

With vintage toys, antique furniture, handmade blankets and quilts, and splashes of pink, we created an inexpensive, cozy, collected, and feminine bedroom/nursery for our daughter.  Our ‘Vintage Toy Nursery’ is now a beautiful space to start and end her days, and I managed to get it done well before her second birthday. 🙂

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DIY Mud Room with vertical shiplap planks, hooks, 2x6 counters, and storage bench Reveal

DIY Old World Mud Room Reveal | One Room Challenge | Week 7

November 21, 2019May 5, 2020Leave a comment

Welcome to our DIY old world mud room! For less than $250 (yes, you read that right!), we transformed the space from beige and boring to blue and beautiful over the course of 7 weeks! Read on to find out how we did it.

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DIY Mud Room with vertical planking shiplap

DIY Old World Mud Room: The Almost Reveal | One Room Challenge | Week 6

November 10, 2019April 14, 2020Leave a comment

The One Room Challenge has officially come to an end…but I’m one of the select few who have added an unofficial 7th week.

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DIY vertical planks

DIY Vertical Paneling + Counter: Fall 2019 One Room Challenge | Week 5

October 31, 2019April 13, 2020Leave a comment

It’s Week 5 of the One Room Challenge already?!  This week, we cut ALL THE WOOD.  I also began installing and painting our partial vertical paneling around the room.

Week 5 of the One Room Challenge is already over?!  That means just one more week until the reveal…Oh, boy! Continue reading →

Mud Room Bench + Plans: Fall 2019 One Room Challenge | Week 4

October 24, 2019April 13, 2020Leave a comment

This week I’m talking about our DIY built-in bench and sharing the ‘final’ decision on design plans (it’s probably not actually final until it’s finished!). 

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Organizing the Pantry and Closets: Fall 2019 One Room Challenge | Week 3

October 18, 2019April 13, 2020Leave a comment

Oh, the pantry. For 15 months, it’s been a disorganized mess, just like the other areas I’m focusing on. When we moved in, I threw everything in, filled it to the brim, and left it. Now I’m rearranging it all in a way that makes sense and adding shelving to maximize storage space.

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DIY Old World Mud Room: Fall 2019 One Room Challenge | Week 2

October 9, 2019April 13, 2020Leave a comment

In Week 2 of the One Room Challenge, I’m sharing my plans to improve organization and add color to our messy, beige mud room.

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Hello! I'm Laura. I use antiques, thrift store finds, and a heavy dose of elbow grease to make our house a home, and I write about it here at Homespun by Laura. From DIY to sewing, you'll find DIY ideas to solve your home decor dilemmas. Pull up a seat and stay awhile!

homespunbylaura

Jack of all trades; master of none.
DIY. Sewing. Travel. Drawing and fabric design. Mama to two 🎀. Learning to enjoy the process.

Laura
Reality hit hard this week after three full & fun Reality hit hard this week after three full & fun days in NYC! It was weird and wonderful not to be responsible for the tiniest details of life at home for a few days…and to finally have the Frozen soundtrack out of my head, if only briefly.

It’s going to be very beautiful there in a few weeks when spring explodes and all the flowers & trees are in bloom, and we got a nice preview.
When I built this play kitchen I was approximately When I built this play kitchen I was approximately 1 year pregnant with the baby 🤪 and it’s so satisfying to see them playing in it together now.
We did something a little crazy last week. So the We did something a little crazy last week. So the Mister wouldn’t miss the baby’s first birthday while he was at a conference in Boston, we packed up a couple carry-ons and a few personal items and all 4 boarded the plane!

The girls behaved as well as we could have asked for for both flights, and we all enjoyed exploring the city together outside of the conference hours. The girls and I are used to spending a lot of Mama-daughter time together at home during the work week while the Mister commutes, so it was fun (and challenging, in a small un-baby-proofed city apartment!) to have a change of scenery for the a few days.

We visited a chocolate factory, the aquarium, had lunch at Quincy Market, rode many T trains, walked a LOT around our neighborhood in Cambridge, pretended to be city kids for a couple hours at the nearby playground, and of course, celebrated the little one’s birthday.

It was cold and rainy (and even snowed some!), girls were tired due to the travel and the time change, the apartment didn’t come with a crib or high chair so we had to travel with those (and managed to do it with only the carry-ons!). There were so many little challenges planning for the trip that I initially adamantly refused to pack us up and go, but eventually the Mister wore me down (and listened to all 112 of my concerns) and we figured out solutions to all of them. Sure, it’s hard to travel with kids, but lots of things are hard with kids! It would have been easier to stay at home, but I’m so glad we went. Even more special- the 3-year-old is at an age where she’s likely to remember this trip. ✈️
A year goes by so much quicker the second time aro A year goes by so much quicker the second time around!
It took about 10 seconds to come up with the idea, It took about 10 seconds to come up with the idea, 10 minutes to determine how to execute it…and almost another 10 months to complete it. But it’s done now and I love it 😉
Big change in our house this weekend. And as alway Big change in our house this weekend. And as always, the big kid wants to help. 🪛 #biggirlbed
Smiling sisters sharing snacks 😍 Smiling sisters sharing snacks 😍
Somebody got a bed! It took over 3 years for this Somebody got a bed! It took over 3 years for this room to fully come together, and I think we can officially put it on the DONE list now! The big girl moved out about a year ago, and it’s been empty ever since. Back in the summer, I finally painted it, and over the weekend the big girl helped her daddy assemble the crib for her little sister. 🎊
It’s that time of year! My favorite cranberry br It’s that time of year! My favorite cranberry bread is special because it was my grandmother’s recipe. She passed away two years ago 8 days before her 98th birthday and would have turned 100 next week.

It’s funny, I always buy the cranberries as soon as I see them at the grocery store each November. Then I intend to make the bread nearly every day in December. But for years, it’s been January before I actually get around to making it. Perhaps that’s appropriate, given the facts in the paragraph above.

The recipe says to let the loaf sit for a full 24 hours before cutting. It’s true that the flavors seem to get stronger and it’s even more delicious after a day has passed, but I’ve never made it more than an hour before I slice through its crisp outer crust and enjoy the first bite.
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