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A No-Sew way to Make Short Drapes Floor Length

About a month ago I bought these drapes from Target for our Breakfast nook makeover. Did you see them in my reveal a couple weeks ago? They’re pretty, right. Well here’s what they looked like when I first hung them up. Not quite the look I was going for. 🙂 I knew I wanted the drapes to hang all the way from the ceiling to the floor so I had to come up with a solution for extending the drapes, and that’s what I’m here to share with you today! Here’s what you need – Coordinating fabric (I went with… Read More

Today is the Day – Adoption Update

Today is the day that will forever be marked in history as the day that “Our Gabriella” really became our daughter, Gabriella Moseley. If you’ve been following my blog for awhile then you will know this has been a long time coming. It’s been over 3 years that we’ve been on this journey and even though today is the day that it becomes final, and legal, it still doesn’t seem real. I haven’t posted an adoption update in almost a year because it’s been a very difficult year. Shortly after my last update Gabriella’s counselor suddenly passed away, after only… Read More

Tackling Back to School Germs with Bounty

If I’m being honest with you, I’d have to admit that I’m a bit of a germaphobe. I’m not one of those people that’s applying hand sanitizer every few minutes but hotel rooms and shopping carts are at the top of my “scary” list. I know it’s crazy but everyone has their “thing” right? Now that my fear of germs is out in the open, let’s talk about how dirty going back to school can be. Every day when we get home the first thing I make my daughter do is wash her hands really well. When you pack 18… Read More

Breakfast Nook Table Makeover & a BIG Giveaway!!!

When we first moved into this house I found this awesome (and old) table that my husband hates but I love. It’s the perfect shape for the space and it has 3 leaves so it can be really big or really small. The best part about this table is that we can comfortably seat 8-10 people around it, which we do quite often. The orange color of the table was all wrong but I kept going back and forth on what to do with it – paint it black, paint it white, stain it a different color??? The options were… Read More

Budget Friendly Breakfast Nook Makeover

Because I didn’t have enough going on with tiling the kitchen backsplash and making over the downstairs bathroom, I decided to throw in another little mini-makeover in our breakfast nook area. Truth be told this area has driven me crazy for a while now but I needed to get a little fire under my buns to actually do something with it, and tiling the kitchen wall was just what I needed to motivate me! Now that the kitchen is almost complete I figured it was time to make the space next to it pretty too. 🙂 Let’s take a quick… Read More

Sun-Dried Tomato Pistou Pasta with Arugula

Spaghetti noodles tossed with arugula and sun-dried tomato pistou then topped with parmesan. This sun-dried tomato pistou pasta with arugula is simple and easy to make. Hi! This is Andrea from Cooking with a Wallflower. This month I’m back with a recipe perfect for those busy weeknights. Can you believe that it’s already September? A few more weeks and we’ll start to see the leaves change colors. Seriously, where has all the time gone? I’m sure that you’re super busy now that summer is over. Especially with long work hours and kids going back to school. So today, I wanted… Read More

Subway Tile Kitchen Wall & Tips for making it an EASY job

A couple weeks ago we took on the project of tiling our kitchen backsplash, only I wanted our backsplash to go all the way up to the ceiling. Ever since taking down the upper cabinet (over a year ago) I have been dreaming about tiling this wall with white subway tiles. I knew that I had to wait to get new counters before we tiled and we had to save up money for the new counters, which took just over a year, but now that we finally have them I had been chomping at the bit to tile this wall!… Read More

How to Clean a Crock Pot to make it Look Brand New!

I recently shared this tip on Periscope but I thought it would be fun to share it on my blog too. Do you follow me on Periscope? If you don’t, you should, it’s a lot of fun getting to chat live with all of you! You can find me under “askannamoseley”. 🙂 Back to the tip. I honestly don’t even know how crock pots get dirty in the metal cooking area but today I’m going to share a tip that will get your crockpot looking brand new again. I’m sure your crock pot has never been this dirty, but just… Read More