Home Tours

It's always fun to look inside someone else's home to steal ideas for your own. Here's a link to see photographs of Martha Stewart's homes over the years, as well as 22 other home tours. Whew!

This photo is one of the featured homes... its minimal style is certainly not boring.

Decorating - Determining how much paint you need

This tip comes from Martha Stewart Living magazine... here's an easy way to calculate how much paint you'll need to paint a room....

you need one gallon for 450 square feet... to determine your wall area, multiply the height of each wall by its width (don't subtract for doors and windows unless they take up more than half the wall); add the figures for the walls and add 10% for future touch-ups. For two coats, just double your number. PS... this photo is from the HGTV 2009 green home... love this foyer because of its creative paint job!

Fall has arrived at homebodies!

It seems like summer just started... but it is past time for us to start putting out our fall items. We have lots of fun stuff to help your home change with the seasons... here are a few pictures of what we have now.. of course we'll be adding more throughout the coming months, especially
those Thanksgiving-inspired pieces.

Tooele's only Farmer's Market Kicks Off this weekend!

I love fresh, not-from-a-store produce... and since I don't grow my own garden, I rely on local gardeners... That's why I'm so excited that the area's only farmer's market kicks off this weekend at Benson Grist Mill. It will be held every Saturday through Oct. 10 from 8am to noon. Farmers and gardeners welcome--- craft booths will also be available starting in September. You can call 435-882-7678 for more information. Hope to see you there!

How-to Video: You can Make Pretty Flower Bows

This how-to video comes from one of our wholesale ribbon companies... May Arts ribbon. They have some gorgeous stuff-- and now you can learn some tricks of the trade, thanks to this how-to video on their blog. You can create these flower bows and use them to embellish a gift or as a hair bow.... adorable either way. If you end up making some, please send us photos!

Now & Then

Thought I'd share these vintage photos with you... I grabbed them from flickr... They were posted by Kenny Gregrich, who owns CSI Pawn Shop in Tooele. The black and white photo dates back from the 1940s... what do you think about the SunFreeze logo on the site... Kenny thinks we should recreate it. What do you think? The Santa parade photo is from 1977. I've also included a recent shot of the building. We often get asked about our building's renovation.... We can't take credit for that; our landlord, Darrell Moore, is the visionary behind that, and matching grants from Tooele City helped pay for the work. My favorite features are the walnut and travertine floor, as well as the stained glass in the front window.

Easy-to-Make Bench

Our beloved babysitter, Melissa Wallace, is such a creative gal. Almost every time I visit her home, she has come up with some new decorating idea -- many of them she builds herself. Her latest creation is an easy-but-adorable bench. She took two chairs, placed them side by side and placed one piece of wood over the seats. You can secure your new top with wood glue or screws. If you wanted to dress up your bench, you could route the edge of the new seat or glue on some padding and cover it with fabric (just wrap the fabric around the edges and discretely staple it underneath. I would also recommend upholstering the seat before you secure it to the chairs). What a great, inexpensive idea! Thanks for sharing Melissa!!!

***If you have a before and after project or a new idea you would like to share, please email us!