Important Tips For Building An IKEA Kitchen

Next in my IKEA kitchen remodel series, I'm covering important tips for building an IKEA kitchen. These will help your process run smoothly and efficiently! This post is also going to have a LOT of "during" photos from the kitchen renovation, so you'll be to see how we used some...

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We Remodeled Our Kitchen!

We did it! We remodeled our kitchen! For those of you following our home journey, you'll know that we are in an old house with an extremely outdated kitchen. Our home was built in 1960, and the only change done to it before we moved in was that the built-in...

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Check Out October Drive on Etsy & Poshmark

It's been a while since I talked about my store, so I wanted to tell you guys about a bunch of exciting things that are happening over on Etsy! Stitches & Bolts and October Rose Boutique are now October Drive After 9 years on the Etsyplatform under Stitches & Bolts...

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From Meal Kits to Self-Sufficient

We always love refreshing our food and eating habits with HelloFresh, but there comes a time when we feel it's most important for us to also break away from using them. This month, we're adjusting to switching away from meal kit delivery services and showing what to keep in mind...

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Trip Guide: Pacific Grove, CA

Growing up in the Central Valley of California, Mike and I have both respectively made our Fair shares out to the Pacific Grove/Monterey area. We both have our loves and dislikes. Over the past few years, we've really developed our hands-down favorites of places we love to visit in Pacific...

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Switching from Paper Scrapbooks to Digital Scrapbooks

I recently made the switch from tradition (paper) scrapbooking to digital scrapbooking, and the first thing everyone around me asked when I told them was, "Why?" There are a number of reasons why someone makes the switch, but I wanted to share my decisions in case you're on the fence...

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Cut-offs Summer

Did anyone else have a parent that refers to shirts as "cut-offs" or was that just me? Summer swept it's high heat temperatures over the Central Valley and I'm doing everything I can to stay cool, including upcycling our old shirts! I've been praying Mike for months to slim down...

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