NewlyWoodwards

an unconventional home

11 tiny kitchen hacks

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I’m excited to share a few of my favorite ideas that make our tiny kitchen work for our family. These ideas are brought to you by Sears Home Appliances and Services. For many of us, the holidays mean quality time in the kitchen. And even though we live in a small space, we’re cooking and baking and prepping for holiday meals at the […]

Mom>Santa (a reminder and DIY mug)

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With Christmas just around the corner, many moms are in the homestretch of holiday gift acquisition. If you are anything like me, you have been picking up gifts for a while. Making lists and checking them twice, so to speak. Hm. That sounds like someone else I know. As a part of my gig with the Quad […]

A DIY barn wood card holder

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At the Woodward house, things change often. Even Christmas decorations change within the month we decorate. And sometimes, it’s because we break things. It happened with a FULL TREE one year. (Franco the pug was to blame.) So, within a few days of creating the DIY wrapping paper art, I knocked the whole thing off the wall, causing the frame to break […]

Our holiday (tiny) home tour

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I think our halls are sufficiently decked. There may be less area in our small space, but it’s still feeling pretty festive in the barn. I already shared our new DIY art from wrapping paper, and I’m back today to share more of our holiday decor. (You can also check out how we decorated the barn last year.) […]

Floors on our new front porch

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Oh, hey. Remember that one time we were building a house? Oh. Yeah. That. I keep wanting to share things that are happening, but all the work isn’t really “blogworthy,” per say. Like all the electrical work that Ryan and the dads have been doing – it’s obviously super important to have things like working […]

Hanging wreaths on the windows – dreams do come true

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Our new house isn’t done, but that doesn’t mean I can do totally impractical things like add wreaths to all the windows. Once I got them in the windows, I told Ryan that dreams really do come true. Because I’ve always wanted to put wreaths in the windows. And now I’ve done it. Dream big, friends. […]