Our Humble A{Bowe}d has teamed up with not one, but two fantastic blogs this fine Monday. Check the first one out at House of Smith’s. I LOVE Shelley’s pantry, so check that out, too.
Then, head over to Tell’er All About It for another chance to win. Plan on spending a few hours browsing both of these amazing blogs; there are so many great ideas inside!
Thanks to House of Smith’s and Tell’er All About It for graciously hosting these giveaways!
First of all, I want to thank everyone that entered to win. But, I really want to thank everyone for their kind words and support! What a great group of people! Now, on to the giveaway winners!
Our first winner is Nancy, who liked the love tree. Then we have… Jordan P, who also preferred the love tree.
The last winner of the Friday Gimme a Giveaway is Ashley who would love the carved tree print for her wedding since her fiancé carved their initials in a tree when they went on their first hike together.
Congrats to all the winners. For those that didn’t win, we do sell the featured prints in our shop, and if you mention this giveaway, you’ll get 25% off! Keep reading to have a chance to win one of our future giveaways.
*This giveaway is no longer accepting entries, Thank You!*
I am so happy to be featured on YHL that I’ve decided to give three lucky people one 8 inch by 10 inch print from my shop, Our Humble A{Bowe}d. I have attached some photos of some of the print options.
Carved Initials:
Bird Family:
I Love You This Much:
Love Math:
Love Tree:
Want a chance to win? Here’s how it works:
To Enter: Comment on this post to tell which print you prefer and the colors you’d like.
Bonus: Blog, Twitter or Facebook with the giveaway link. Then, leave another comment including your blog post, Tweet or Facebook link.
Contest Closes: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 9:00 pm, central time.
Number of Winners: Three!
Ships: Anywhere in the US of A.
Other Info: The winner can customize their print with colors, text such as names, family names, dates, and initials, and quantity of birds in the Bird Family print. Only one entry per e-mail address. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday, August 12th. Good luck!!
If you’re interested in invitations or stationery, visit our sister shop, Customized Stationary. Check us out on Facebook, too!
Do you ever see an item that is so ugly it’s cute? Or wonder if something is cute and endeering or kitschy and ugly? I know I do. I think a few personal kitschy/cute items are fine, so long as it is only a few. I’ve gathered some of the items I can’t quite decide which way I lean toward more.
These little guys could be cute in the right setting, especially becuase they are made to look like your family.
I would like to buy a plain set to make my own, but you get the idea…
This print is simply adorable, not even a hint of kitsch.
It’s similar to my Love Tree print, too.
Maybe that’s why I like it?
If only I had a place to put something like this.
Which reminds me, I still need to figure out how to make a terrarium (or two or three) for my house. Of course, with my love of all things miniature, I would need something like these and these.
I have been loving faux bois lately, so these coasters would be a great fix.
Although, so wood (ha!) these. In the right setting, of course. Maybe the boys’ room? Hmmm… Of course, I would have to make my own. You know I’m too cheap to spend $45.00 on pillows!
I actually made a pillow for my boys becuase I was inspired by this little monkey.
So, that’s that. What are your opinions? Cute or kitsch?
Our humble abode is definitely an efficient use of space. We have few wasted spaces due to the floor plan, but we’ve added some details to make the limited closet space more functional.
Ben built shoe/storage cubes for the entryway, guest bedroom and boys bedroom.
The entry closet is small at 3.5 feet wide. By adding three levels of cubes, we have tripled our shoe storage. We’ve added hooks to hang purses and leashes on and storage bins for hats, gloves and smaller items.
Here a peek at the guest bedroom closet:
We try to keep that closet pretty empty. We tend to have a lot of guests and we like to give them some space.
Our toughest storage solution was for the boys closet.
The cubes are the perfect size for cheap covered storage containers from Wal-Mart. We keep diapers in 4 of the containers (we buy diapers at Costco). Extra bedding, wipes, socks and pajamas are also stored on this side of the closet. We use a laundry bag which hangs to save space.
Here’s a shot of the other side of the shared closet:
The cubes hold Ev’s extra blankets, burp cloths and sheets. I hang the boys’ clothes because it would take waaaay to long to fold everything. I’m too OCD to throw it in a drawer. You’ll also notice larger storage bins on the top shelf. We store large clothes for each boy in those, so we have it handy to switch out.
Our closet was one of the easiest storage solutions we created. Our bed, built by Ben, has drawers on each side at the foot of the bed and two large compartments with false drawer fronts on each side. We keep out of season clothes, jackets, and boots in the compartments, while storing every day items like socks, underwear, pajamas and such in the drawers.
Here’s Ben’s side of our closet.
When we remodeled out master bedroom, we changed up the closet shelving. We removed the old single shelf and moved it up to about 1 foot from the ceiling. The same closet rod is below. We added a shelf about half way down the closet. Because our closets have sliding doors, we made one side shelving. Most of my shirts are stored here.
My side looks a little bare…
We added another closet rod to under the middle shelf. Because we don’t have anything on that rod, we keep a laundry basket in my side on the floor.
We’re lucky to have a closet to hold our vacuüm, cleaning supplies, toolbox, and lightbulbs.
The linen closet at the end of our hall holds all of our extra towels, bedding, and even our suitcases.
We also have a gigantic pantry. LOVE IT!!
We’re still working on the basement closets, but I promise to show those when they’re done.
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