Over the summer, I painted my front door a sunny shade of yellow. While the bright color is so warm and inviting, I am still working on making the rest of the porch as inviting. The biggest issue we have at my house is storage…and shoes. All of us have a lot of shoes–from rain boots to sneakers to sandals, the shoes seem to multiply overnight! Our entire first floor has NOT ONE CLOSET, which forces me to become creative…
Mud & Merlot is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Utilizing the links below helps to keep this site running. One rainy Wednesday in Seattle, I was driving around visiting my accounts and preparing for a big visit from some mucky-mucks high up in my company. This had been consuming my weeks and suddenly I realized…
Easy Ways to Save Money! As I am always looking to save a buck, here I am sharing my favorite 6 easy ways to save money! I have not yet gotten into serious couponing, because I am afraid if I don’t do it well I will end up buying items I don’t need. Even if it’s an AMAZING deal, if you don’t need it or don’t end up using it, it still is a waste of money! My goal is…
I LOVE Crate & Barrel. It was one of two stores with which my husband and I registered for our wedding, and I love and adore my Parker mixing bowls that I purchased there 10+ years ago. We are slowly are upgrading our furniture in our house (ya know, finally we can justify donating the hand-me-downs to truly make our house OURS). Letting go of our overstuffed cream leather couches in our living room is surprisingly difficult, despite the fact…
I am going to share a few secrets for saving money at Target that I have picked up over the years! In my day job, I visit a whole lot of retail stores, including Target. Using a few tricks key tricks, you can successfully save a lot of money at Target! 1. Check the upper right hand corner of a sale tag. It will indicate what the percent off is, in case you haven’t had your second third cup…