Spring Home Tour

Hello friends! I am SUPER thrilled to be participating in the Blogger’s Best Spring Home Tour, along with some of my favorite friends! Spring always feels like such a special time with everything starting to bloom and grow. I had a really fun time this year adding more color to our home! Welcome if you are hopping over from Robyn’s French Nest. Robyn’s home is one of my very favorites!!

Blogger’s Best Spring Tour

Scroll down to see ALL off the amazing homes and ideas being shared for SPRING!

Spring on Our Porch

One of my favorite things to do is decorate our front porch!

My blush door looks so pretty in the spring time! I added a sweet pink and white striped rug that matches!

I also added a sweet ruffled pink blanket and black and white pillows! Our copper light was tarnished and I used a homemade recipe to brighten it up. Doesn’t it look so bright and pretty now? I’ll share an Instagram reel with the homemade recipe this weekend!

Another element that I added for spring is this adorable scallop wicker basket. I put my olive tree inside and added olive branches around the door.

This spring wreath is SO easy to make! I love this wicker egg in the center. I listed all of the sources at the bottom of the post!

Spring in the Entryway

I echoed the boho vibe from the porch into the entryway!

This scallop basket echoes the scallop basket on the front porch. It’s filled with faux branches. I found the cutest wood bunny. Her face reminds me of my sweet kitten, Pumpkin!

Spring in My Office

Pink is my favorite color. That’s probably why I love my office so much! I added some pretty touches of pink to my computer nook for spring!

You can see more about my Spring office and new pink wallpaper on this post – Organizing My Office!

Spring in Our Family Room

I matched the colors to my favorite rug!

I added rainbow elements for spring with a Rainbow Egg Wreath and Rainbow Banner!

Spring in the Kitchen

I added some pretty elements in our kitchen. Can you believe these tulips are faux? They feel so real! And I had so much fun making the rainbow butterfly wreath too! I have a post about how to decorate your spring kitchen on my site.

Spring in Our Bedroom

I added a few simple spring elements in our bedroom! First of all – how cute is our new Artiplanto rug?? Isn’t the soft pink color so pretty?

A green wreath feels fresh so above our bed! I love how the green contrasts against our black headboard.

I’m so glad you stopped by! Next on the tour is Lynne’s tour at My Family Thyme! You are going to LOVE Lynne’s fresh and beautiful Spring home!

Bloggers’ Best Spring Home Tours

Monday’s Tours

The Tattered Pew / My Thrift Store Addiction / Bricks n’ Blooms

Shiplap and Shells / Cottage In The Mitten / Cottage On Bunker Hill

Tuesday’s Tours

Midwest Life and Style / Open Doors Open Hearts / Cloches and Lavender

Amy Sadler Designs / Up To Date Interiors

Wednesday’s Tours

Simply2Moms / Sand Dollar Lane / DIY Beautify

The Ponds Farmhouse / Pasha Is Home / Lantern Lane Designs

Thursday’s Tours

StoneGable / My Wee Abode / County Road 407

She Gave It A Go / Aratari At Home / Willow Bloom Home

Friday’s Tours

Lora Bloomquist Create and Ponder / White Arrows Home / Follow The Yellow Brick Home

Robyn’s French Nest / tatertots and jello / My Family Thyme

Spring Home Tour Sources

• Pink and White Entry rug
• Scallop Basket
• Jasmine Wreath
• Woven Egg
• Faux Olive Tree
• Upholstered Cubes
• Threshold Wood Bunny
• Olive Wreath
• Faux Tulips
• Copper Gooseneck Light
• Faux Olive Plant
• Blush Duvet Cover

More Spring Home Ideas

Here are a few of my home tours from years past for inspiration!

Bright and Colorful Home Tour

I went with a carrot-theme the year I decorated for spring when we lived at Daybreak. I still love the mantel!

Fresh Spring Home Tour

This was my tour from last year! I used a lot of greens and it felt so fresh!

What projects are YOU working on for spring?

xoxo

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Add Color and Charm to Your Home with MacKenzie-Childs. Add color and charm to your home with MacKenzie-Childs and free hot cocoa printable.

Add Color and Charm to Your Home with MacKenzie-Childs

Have you heard of MacKenzie-Childs? They are one of my favorite brands! I love the way they pair patterns and colors to create the most beautiful accents for your home.

How to Add Color and Patterns to Your Home

You know I LOVE color. I love adding MacKenzie-Childs items to my home. Their colors and patterns fit in with our new (old) vintage home so well! I was able to attend a virtual conference with their team in October. It was so fun! I met their team and some artisans. I was amazed at the time and talent that goes into EACH and every piece they create.

MacKenzie-Childs Pieces are Timeless

MacKenzie-Childs has an avid following, and for good reason. Each piece goes through a rigorous quality assuredness program. Since every item is handmade, each item is unique and of the utmost quality. I ordered the 7-Quart Flower Market Stockpot and the details are amazing. The lid has a beautiful finial on top. And the whole piece is heavy and so well made.

Beautiful Kitchenware that is Functional and Beautiful

I love displaying my MacKenzie-Childs pieces in our newly remodeled kitchen. One of my favorite things to do is display flowers in my stockpot! I created a holiday centerpiece in the stockpot and I love the way it pairs with the plaids on our holiday table!

Mixing Patterns and Colors Create a Whimsical Home

I love the patterns and styles of the items I ordered from MacKenzie-Childs. The classic Courtly Check looks gorgeous mixed with the white and black Flower Market items.

Create a Winter Hot Cocoa Station

I used some of my Mackenzie-Childs items to create a little hot cocoa station for my daughter’s 16th birthday! The Santa Nutcracker Mugs and Platter were perfect focal points for the station. We recently refinished a vintage gun cabinet with new tile as a place to store our everyday dishes. MacKenzie-Childs Tartan Napkins gave the cabinet to give it extra cheer! Guests help themselves to some treats and hot cocoa displayed in our new cabinet!

Hot Cocoa Printable

Hot Cocoa Printable

Hot cocoa stations are perfect for the holidays and all winter long! Here is a free printable you can use for YOUR home! Just right-click on the link and save it to your computer to print out!

Plaid Winter Dining Table

We also had a brunch to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. I continued the plaid theme to the dining room table with cozy MacKenzie-Childs Tartan Throws. They are so soft!! I added some these whimsical huge black and white ornaments to the table. Above the table is my favorite holiday item – this fabulous MacKenzie-Childs Happy Holidays Wreath. It is a show-stopper and an item that I will treasure for years to come!

Add Color to Your Home

MacKenzie-Childs is my favorite way to bring color AND pattern into our home through items that we use everyday! I am excited to create family memories with their beautiful cookware, serving items and accessories. They are items that I plan to hand down to my kids one day!

Follow MacKenzie-Childs for Inspiration!

Be sure to follow along with MacKenzie-Childs for beautiful inspiration! And they have their barn sale every July in upstate New York. It’s on my bucket list!! THANK YOU MacKenzie-Childs for bringing the perfect combination of whimsical colors and patterns to our 1891 home!!

MacKenzie Childs on Instagram

MacKenzie Childs on Pinterest

MacKenzie Childs on Facebook

Mac-Kenzie-Childs on Twitter

xoxo

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DIY Wood Snowflake Art

Add Scandinavian charm to your home by creating giant snowflake art canvases. Create one or a series. I created four and hung them in a square above our sofa.

Create Snowflake Art to Match Your Home

I created bright and colorful art to match our holiday tree this year. I used shades of pink, green, blue and red. But the beauty of this idea is you can make the snowflake art any color you want.

Scandinavian Simple Art

Scandinavian style is simple with clean lines. I created some Scandinavian Snowflake Ornaments a couple of years ago and they were one of my favorite crafts I have ever made. So this year I thought it would be fun to create art for our home that mirrored those ornaments, but on a larger scale.

Copycat Pottery Barn Snowflake Art

Pottery Barn sells snowflake art that I thought was perfect. However, the $349 price tag was too high for me. Plus I wanted to create a more colorful project. So I took the Pottery Barn idea and created an easy way to recreate it for a fraction of the price.

How to Make Scandinavian Snowflake Art

Here’s the tutorial. There is some cutting involved. We used a compound miter saw. If you don’t have access to a miter saw you can make the edges of the dowels straight, the joints will just have a gap.

Materials Needed to Make Scandinavian Snowflake Art

These measurements are for ONE canvas

• Dowels (4 — 36″ length 1/2 inch circumference)
• Canvases
• Paint
• Hot Glue
• Miter Saw

Directions to Make Scandinavian Snowflake Art

Paint the Canvas

Paint the canvas the color you want for the background.

Make Dowel CUTS —

• 1.- 16.5 inches (both ends are straight edges)
• 4 – 8 inches (1 straight edge, 1 mitered 45-degrees edge)
• 24 – 2 inches (1 straight edge, 1 mitered 45-degrees edge)

Cutting NOTES — cutting the mitered edges is a little tricky. Cut the longest length (8 inches) first. Then cut the 7-inch dowels. Make the straight edges. Take one of the ends and make the 45-degrees cut, Then cut the 2 inch pieces. Start with a long length of dowel. Start with the mitered edge as the first cut. Then alternate cutting one straight edge, one mitered edge as you cut the length of the dowel. DO NOT cut too close to the blade. This is very dangerous. You need more dowel than you will use for the project because you can’t cut the whole length of the dowel because it is too dangerous. Cut the length of dowel down until you have about 6 inches left, then start with a new dowel.

Glue the Dowels

Glue the Longest Dowel

Now it’s time to glue the dowels onto the canvas. Start with the longest length of dowel (8-inch). Place it on the canvas at an angle or straight up and down on the canvas. You can use hot glue or E6000.

Glue Two 2-inch Dowels

Now glue two of the two inch dowels together, with the mitered edge s together forming an 90-degree angle. You will use those to determine the angles on the canvas.

Glue the Four 7-Inch Dowels

Use the 2-inch dowel pair you just glued to make sure the angles between each of the larger pieces are even. Once you are sure of the placement, glue those dowels down. Now you will have the main part of the snowflake.

Glue the Remaining Five pairs of Dowels

Now glue the other 10 2-inch pieces together, forming 5 dowels that make 90-degree angles. Then glue those in between the longer dowels in the center of the snowflake.

Add the Remaining Twelve 2-Inch Dowels

Glue the 2-inch pieces of dowel at the ends of each snowflake, with the angled edges at the base of the snowflake pieces.

Hang Up Your Scandinavian Snowflake Art

Now you can hang up your art! Or create more snowflake art if you want!

More Scandinavian Ideas

Scandinavian Baking Soda Ornaments

Scandinavian Printable Tags

Bright Scandinavian Ornament Wreath

Share YOUR ideas with me on Instagram @tatertotsandjello!

Have a Beautiful Day!

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Colorful Happy Home

Hello! I had a bit of an epiphany about my life and my blog and I am so excited to share it!! When I started blogging I never imagined that I would be blogging daily almost nine years later. I can say with all sincerity that blogging saved my life. I started blogging because I was lonely and what I found is an AMAZING community of lovely, beautiful people who share my love of creating. I’ve found life-long friends and so much more!

Colorful Happy Home

As I went through my divorce I went through a super difficult time and I lost my joy for creating. I was just trying to survive one day at a time. Over the past year as we’ve moved and we have started healing, I feel like I am starting to feel alive again. I kind of lost who I was as I was going through such a difficult time. I also realized that mean comments and negativity can only hurt me if I let them. Strong women build each other up and that is the community I want to be a part of and help contribute toward. I did some soul searching and realized that I missed the COLORFUL happy home I had created with my family.

One of the things that really makes my heart sing is COLOR. I think we love our new community because it’s so COLORFUL. Creating a COLORFUL home has always made me happy and over the past nine years I’ve loved sharing COLORFUL projects on the blog.

I was talking a couple of weeks ago with a friend and saying that I felt like I lost touch with what my “style” is. She said – your style is COLOR. And of course – she was right.

COLOR is what makes me happy and always has.

And it makes so much sense since we live in a community based on COLORFUL homes, I am embracing COLOR in my life again. Last week I made a COLORFUL Spring sign for my porch:

Colorful Happy Home  

I am really excited to share all of the wonderful things that are happening in my life with you. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to visit, check out some of my projects and comment in the past. Each and every person means so much to me.

I have SO many COLORFUL projects I am working on which I will share with you this year. And I am excited to travel along with YOU as you create this year too!! Here are a few COLORFUL projects that I have made in the past that show my love of color:

Tween Command Station 

Nautical Blue and Yellow Wreath

Turquoise Slipcover 

Asian-themed Bedroom 

Navy and Yellow Kitchen Shelves 

Summer Kitchen Shelves 

1905 Cottage Kitchen 

Upcycled Frame Wall 

Painted Outdoor Pots 

Painted Pegboard 

Fabric Rosette Wreath 

Painted Silverware Tray Jewelry Holder 

Colorful Spring Mantel 

Colorful Donut Printable 

Washi Tape Egg Wreath 

Paper Flower Wreath

Spring Nook 

Patterned Tween Room 

30 Day Master Bedroom Challenge

Tween Hangout Room

Rainbow Ruffle Shirt Refashions

I hope you will follow along with us as we embrace this new COLORFUL chapter in our lives.

I have SO many COLORFUL projects I am working on which I will share with you this year.

And I am excited to travel along with YOU as you create this year too!!

You can share YOUR colorful projects and the things that inspire YOU with me!

Connect with me on Instagram and hashtag YOUR ideas with the hashtag  #ColorfulHappyHome and we can all share the colorful things that make us happy. I can’t wait to see what everyone shares!!

Have a COLORFUL day!

xox

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