If you like my little burlap rosettes, you’ll love One Project Closer’s tutorial on.

Full contest details can be found on the CIL website.. You know that I  love the magic of paint and how it’s a tool that almost anyone can have easy access to if they want to make their home a more welcoming place to be.I really appreciate that CIL represents the idea that beauty can be created on a small budget and continues to try to offer better paint products at a great value.

It’s always a pleasure for me to partner up with CIL to spread the message about the greatness of paint!.I hope you’ve found a little inspiration to pick up a paint brush today and I hope that it’s one of my lovely and talented readers who gets to win that grand prize!.What paint projects are you going to be sharing with us in this contest?We all have dreams and goals for things we’d like to find the time to do at some point in our lives, but it’s so easy to feel like we just don’t have the time.

If you have kids at home, you might be waiting for them to get just a little bit older, a little bit more independent before you get to some of those things you’ve been meaning to do.I know I’ve always felt like I would surely have more time on my hands at some point in the future, just beyond my reach, but of course that time never comes.

At some point, I had to start figuring out how I was going to keep my house clean, grow my blogging business, tackle our renovations, and have a normal family life, all at the same time, regardless of what phase of life we were in.

If I didn’t just start getting stuff.Wow, I never noticed it before, but it looks like we really picked up speed with the DIY projects in the last half of the year.

I hope you enjoyed looking back over some of the best posts of the last year with me.More “best of” categories will be coming up later this week!As the big day gets closer and the pressure seems to be on to have the most perfect Christmas, sometimes a classic quote can be just the right medicine to put everything into perspective and really remind us of what’s important.

Plus, I just love a good quote or 20, don’t you?Here are a handful of my favorites that I’ve come across, some funny, some meaningful, and some kinda strange but still totally right on the money.