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My home is where my heart is.  It is where I live each moment, teaching my three children, preparing healthy plant-based foods, decorating and re-decorating until I get it right, and trying to do the best I possibly can on a budget.  I love to thrift shop and yard sales are a thrill for me.  I call it my therapy. It allows me to bring home something that excites me and create a unique mix and match look in our home.  It allows me to just let down and search out what exactly I want my home to reflect.  Have I figured it out yet?  No. Ask my husband.  But I am working on it, one beautiful re-purposed piece at a time.  

We moved last March from a bungalow style home built in 1900.  It was small but cozy with lots of character. It was a great home for our family for almost 10 years.  However, as the kids grew, the house seemed to get smaller and smaller along with the yard.  It was time to leave the busy street setting and search for something with more space...and more places to decorate.  Never could I have imagined buying the house we are currently in.  But, here we are.  Our house is a 1978 Tudor style home that still looks like the 70's. Really, it hasn't been changed at all.
 Honestly, when I walked in I said I could never live here.  It was too dark...dark paint,ugly wallpaper everywhere, and dark glossy woodwork.  Awful.  Made me cry...a lot.  It really did.  I even panicked.  How could I leave my beautiful white woodwork and french doors and hardwood floors?  In the end, the location won out and here we are.  I have to say, I do love the quiet neighborhood and having a big yard. I really do. So...here goes making this house into a cottage, one thrifted piece at a time.