So first a disclaimer: I am NOT an artist. Other than my high school’s mandatory art classes and a few summer camps as a kid, I have no art training or real art skill. That being said, I love to paint. I think it’s so fun and relaxing. I painted my share of coolers in …

So, I recently got 3 big wooden frames from ReTail. You already saw what I did with the medium sized one, so here is what I did with the largest frame. I have been feeling super inspired by Pinterest lately, and have gotten interested in melted crayon art. Lots of different projects have inspired me …

We try to cook and/or eat Mexican-inspired meals every Thursday. This Taco Thursday tradition started early in our relationship when I first made Sean my trademark cruncheweesey tacos and he begged for a repeat the next week. We by no means mean to be authentic in our cooking (it is truly more of a Southwestern/Moe’s/Chipotle …

 “Hey, Morgan. I have to go to Charlotte this weekend for my dad’s 60th birthday. Would you like to come with me?”  “Only if we can go to IKEA.”  “Sigh…” And so it was. I grew up in Charlotte, but IKEA didn’t begin injecting itself into the community until after I had moved away for …

IKEA is the kind of place that everyone’s heard of. Especially in the DIY/Pinterest community, you cannot avoid mention of this Swedish warehouse promising affordable furniture in huge variety and tiny packages. Unfortunately, being raised outside of Raleigh and having lived ever since in Charleston, our paths have never crossed- until now. Last weekend, Sean …