Do the autumn weekends ahead include Chili and Football around your house? Take a page from my decorating playbook and celebrate team spirit with this fall football chalkboard schedule. Choose a chalkboard to fit your space. I like an easel style chalkboard that is mobile and can easily display the 716 hometown favorite. It sure…
Hooked on Houses Features 716
I have been a long time follower of Julia and her Hooked on Houses Blog (You can find the HOH Blog and others via “Blogs I read” section.) I love her mix of common folk remodels (like us) as well as houses that I have always admired on television or in movies. Yes…my name is Becki and…
Kansas City (and the Midwest) welcomes IKEA
Fellow Midwesterners – the wait is almost over, IKEA Kansas City will open it’s doors on Wednesday September 10th. The Merriam Kansas location will be IKEA’s 40th store in the United States (the St Louis location is due to open fall of 2015.) If you think IKEA is just particle board pretend furniture, great –…
House Number Cutting Boards
As autumn quickly approaches I am jonesing for added richness and textures in my decorating palette. To help spice up my fall home decor, I tackled an easy house number cutting board project that combines the texture I longed for with another one of my favorites – typography. For this project I wanted to place…
Fall Leaves Silhouette Pumpkins
Summer is in our rearview mirrors and fall is upon us. Fall decorating is in full swing at 716. In the coming days I will share a few of my favorite fall decorating projects. One of my recent favorites – this simple fall leaves silhouette pumpkin project. I found my pumpkins at Old Time Pottery…
Two Truths and a Lie – Social Media version
Truth #socialmedia #isconfusing. Tweets, followers, OOTD (outfit of the day) filtered via Insta. BTW, learning the slang, acronyms and internet lingo is not that GR8 when you are north of 40, OMG. Thank goodness I am not the only person confused. Recently the FBI released an 83 page guide to twitter shorthand and slang. Emojis and…
Give one get one friday
Happy Friday peeps. Lets connect and share. You can find littlemrssevenonesix.com on social media via the links below. Link up, follow, friend, what’s not to love!
Milestone Event Wedding Gift Basket
Let me begin by saying that I am not a fan of stock wedding gifts. Egyptian cotton, sterling silver picture frames, Crate and Barrel baking dishes….I find it all, zzzzzzz, boring. My aversion for traditional gift giving is rooted in the registry process. I was even uncomfortable with the concept as a bride to be….
Two Truths and a Lie – Back to school edition
The 2014 – 2015 school year has arrived – in like a lion. The anticipation and anxiety (mostly from Mr A and I) fill the air at 716. This year we will send off a Second Grader and…our baby…to Kindergarten – torture. I really don’t want to be “that Mom.” I have spent the last…
The what I did on my summer vacation (book)
Packing lunches and evenings filled with homework and chaos is upon us. While I love a routine, summers end quickly approaching makes me blue – and bitter – but mostly blue. I believe summer deserves a speeding ticket or a do over. This year, and last, I collected and edited all those great summer snapshots…