Turning shanty to chic one bargain at a time
Hey friends! Hope you are all having an awesome Friday! I recently installed a new faucet in my kitchen that I love! My family drinks a LOT of water, and I thought this would be a perfect time to test out 3M’s Filtrete High Performance Drinking Water System! I LOVE how easy this product is {…Read More…}
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Hey friends!! We wanted to send you guys one more quick reminder about The Home Depot’s DIH Workshop that we will be co-leading tonight at the West Plano location! We are so excited about this event, and we are really looking forward to meeting some of our local DFW readers at the clinic! It’s {…Read More…}
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Hey hey! I am SO pleased with how my latest project turned out! My dining table has looked naked since Christmas, and I have been on the hunt for the perfect table runner. It only took me a couple of months to come up with something, but I would say it was worth the wait. {…Read More…}
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This giveaway is complete and our winners have been notified… Danica, Terrellee and Andrea D. congrats! Hey guys! We are so excited to team up with one of our favorite brands to bring you this awesome giveaway! We get questions daily about which tools we would recommend. We both LOVE Ryobi tools, and {…Read More…}
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Hey guys!! I hope you all had a great weekend! I spent mine in San Antonio with my two oldest girls for a cheer competition. I now lack hearing and sleep, but I did have a fun time with my girls! I have had this next little project in my head for sometime. I remember {…Read More…}
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Hey friends! We had the pleasure of finally meeting our good ‘blog’ friend Jamielyn of I Heart Naptime last summer at Haven! We were so excited to hear about her new online app, The Inspiration Board! It launched this week and we were able to get a sneak peek and play around with it a bit! Let me {…Read More…}
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Hey friends! I hope you all had an awesome weekend! I had an eventful week last week. I managed to have 2 children in the ER with stitches 5 days apart… ‘Mom of the Year’ right here! So… I decided to tackle an easy project over the weekend. I needed something simple and quick and {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! So… Ash and I both celebrated birthdays over the last few weeks. We decided that we needed a serious day of pampering together to celebrate! We are both from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and we found the greatest place ever to have a great ‘Mommy’s Day Out’! It’s called the Sanford House Inn {…Read More…}
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Happy Wednesday! I am SO excited to share my latest build with you guys today! Building took a back seat to Christmas, but with that behind us (for 11 more months), I was so pumped to dust off my tools and get to work! This might just be my favorite build yet. My youngest {…Read More…}
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Wow guys! What a year! We are so thankful to each and every one of you that support us, share us and leave comments for us. You are all so encouraging, and have made this the best year for Shanty2Chic yet! This year, we dug through our stats, and put a list together of your {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! We are so very excited to share some fun news with you! We have teamed up with some of our very favorite bloggers to bring you an awesome 12 Days of Christmas event! You are invited to step into the festive homes of 6 fun bloggers for 12 days, where we will show {…Read More…}
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Hey friends! We are so excited to be blog swapping with the girls from East Coast Creative today! We had the privilege of meeting this blogging duo in Georgia last year, and hit it off from the start! They are fun, sweet girls with a passion for DIY just like Ash and I! Take a {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! We are constantly answering emails and comments on tools and getting started with woodworking. Ashley and I will be sharing lots of tips and video tutorials in the next few months on how to use the tools we love! Today, we are sharing our VERY favorite tools with you. Many of you want {…Read More…}
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Hey friends! Hope everyone is having an awesome Thanksgiving break! I am here today to share a quick and cute advent calendar I made! This also makes a super cute Christmas Card display! Here is how it turned out… This is so simple to make! I made mine during yesterday’s nap time! I started with {…Read More…}
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Happy Friday morning! I am getting geared up for Christmas, and I am here today to share a super simple tutorial on making fabric covered balls. These all started with a big box of old ornaments I was planning on sending to Goodwill… Then I had an epiphany! Here is how they turned out… These {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! Thanks so much to all of you who entered our great Kreg Toolboxx giveaway! This was our favorite giveaway yet! We have a winner to announce, but before we do, we wanted to share an AWESOME promo we have available for Shanty readers only! We have teamed up with Kreg® Tools to offer {…Read More…}
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Happy Tuesday guys! We just wanted to share some SUPER exciting new with you all! We are SO excited to finally be able to share with you that Shanty2Chic has been named a 2012 Country Living Magazine Blue Ribbon Blogger WINNER! This is such a huge honor for us, and we wanted to thank all {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! We were so excited when Jamielyn asked us to come share over at iheartnaptime! She is one of our very favorite bloggers, and such a sweet person as well. This is the project I shared over at her site! Today I will be sharing a super quick, simple and cheap Christmas project I {…Read More…}
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We have an AWESOME giveaway for our readers today! We are teaming up with our favorite tool brand to bring you our very favorite giveaway yet! As many of you know, Ash and I LOVE our Kreg® Jigs! For any of you considering building your own furniture, or persuading your hubby to, this tool is {…Read More…}
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Hey friends! Thanks so much for all of your shares and pins on my $5 Christmas gift idea! As promised, I am back today to share another FREE PRINTABLE! Can’t get enough of these! I wanted some cute tags to put on my Christmas gifts this year, but didn’t want to pay a dime for {…Read More…}
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Happy Wednesday guys! I am so pleased with my latest project, and I can’t wait to share it with you today! As many of you know, I am constantly trying to think of great gift ideas on a very shanty budget. These bad boys cost me under $5 to make, and I had 6 of {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! I hope you all had an awesome week! As promised, I am back today to share even more free banners for you! So many of you love the ease of the free printable alphabet banners I provided, so I thought numbers and some cute shapes might make you happy too ! ** To {…Read More…}
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**So happy to have you here! Make sure to follow us on Pinterest and Facebook to stay up to date on our posts!** UPDATE! Many of you have requested the brand of air tight canisters I use. Here is a link to them on Amazon! They also qualify for free shipping… Whoop! I use all 3 sizes! Hey hey {…Read More…}
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** UPDATE ~ Many of you have requested numbers and additional shapes… I have posted those and you can check them out HERE! Make sure to follow us on Pinterest and Facebook to stay up to date on our posts!** Well, it looks like you guys love free and easy projects as much as we {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! Hope you had a great weekend! Ours was bonkers…. Along with a ball game, 4 cheer practices, a garage sale, church and our Meme’s 80th birthday party, I also finished up a couple bookcases for the girls. Still tired. But… I do love them! My girls have been begging for bookcases ever since {…Read More…}
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Hey guys! I have had lots of questions about the hardware I used on my kitchen cabinets that I recently painted. I originally went to the hardware store searching for new hardware. I was totally unimpressed with the selection, and even more unimpressed by the price! So… I went searching online and came across a {…Read More…}
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UPDATE! Many of you requested the whole alphabet… I have posted that and you can find it HERE!!! Good morning friends! Thanks so much for all your sweet comments and shares on my canned food organizers! I really appreciate them! I am taking a little break from organization today to share a really cute, simple {…Read More…}
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Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend! I am back today to share our next ‘Shanty Storage Solution’ with you! As I mentioned in my DIY Spice Rack post, Ash and I are on a mission to use our love of wood and DIY to create solutions for our kitchens and our {…Read More…}
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Good morning guys! I am super excited about a little series Ash and I will be sharing called ‘Shanty Storage Solutions’! We both have a healthy amount of OCD from our mom (Ash received more than me), and one of our favorite things to do is organize! Our goal is to use our love for {…Read More…}
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Hey friends! Happy Friday! I’m very excited to be sharing plans for my Restoration Hardware inspired dining hutch today! I shared the sideboard plans a couple weeks back. Thanks so much for all of your sweet comments and shares on it! I always love reading them! As always, I will share a few tips and {…Read More…}
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