Answers to your cleaning, organizing questions & more!
My laundry room was the first room I ever made over in our new house. It was cute and the charm lasted for awhile but after a few month I decided I didn’t really like what I’d done because I decorated it before getting a good feel for the house and what it’s style was. So for about a year my laundry room has kind of driven me crazy… When Price Pfister emailed me a couple weeks ago and asked if I’d like to review some of their upcoming products I knew exactly what I wanted to do – a… Read More
Reupholstering cushions has got to be one of my favorite projects. It’s always amazing to me how much a little time and fabric can update or give a chair a whole new look! I can’t count how many I’ve reupholstered, but I’ve enjoyed the process each time. Here are some easy step-by-step instructions on how to reupholster a chair cushion. I got this chair at a yard sale last summer for $15. The seat was broken in two and the fabric had seen better days, to be sure. 😉 The first thing I did was take off the seat (usually… Read More
Last October my mother-in-law took my sister-in-law and I to Villa La Estancia, a resort in Mexico, to celebrate her 60th birthday. It was an incredible place and from the moment you walked in the front doors you felt like royalty. People were there greeting you, saying “welcome home”, everyone was so friendly and best of all the place smelled AMAZING! My MIL (mother-in-law) was obsessed with how incredible it smelled in the lobby and every time we walked through there she would say, “It smells so amazing in here!” I was determined to figure out how they made it… Read More
Today I’m super excited to introduce you to a new contributor for Ask Anna! Meet my blog friend Angelina from the blog JoJo and Eloise. She is amazing and I have followed her blog for a long time, always in awe of her incredible talents, photography skills and adorable children! I am SO excited to have her here on Ask Anna where each month she will share her creativity with us. But today she has an awesome cleaning solution to a problem that I know we’ve ALL run into – how to get makeup stains out of clothes! I hope… Read More
I’ve made lots of cakes over the years but only for my kids’ birthday parties and a few other things. I’ve never thought of myself as an expert, by any means of the word, but when my husband’s co-worker called me and told me she wanted to hire me to bake a cake for her son’s first birthday, I was blown away. Me? Someone wanted me to bake a cake for them, and pay me, what? I wanted to make a special cake for her little boy, not that he’ll remember, but every little kid deserves a special cake for… Read More
Too much stuff in your coat closet? Me too! So I’m sharing some simple coat closet organization ideas that will make life easier. Our coat closet drives me crazy. It’s full of jackets (of courses) but it’s also the place we store our umbrellas, vacuums, mops, etc., so essentially it’s our mini mudroom. Unfortunately this means every time I pull out a vacuum it gets stuck on a coat, or every time I put away a coat, it knocks over a vacuum (AHHHH!). Well after knocking the vacuums and mops over about 900 times I decided something needed to change…. Read More