The Wood Grain Cottage Website… It’s READY!

Hello All!

I can’t thank you enough for following along on Brightly Inspired. It’s now time to make the switch to TheWoodGrainCottage.com.

You’ll still find all the same great projects- but it’s much more organized! And pretty! 🙂

I’m not sure how many of you lovely readers are reading through wordpress.com’s reader, but I just wanted to encourage you to visit the new site and to follow along there! To all my e-mail subscribers, you shouldn’t even notice a difference… I hope! 🙂

Please join me on http://www.TheWoodGrainCottage.com!

THANK YOU!

Shayna

Favorite Projects of 2012

As we get ready to head into 2013, I thought I would take today to highlight my favorite projects from 2012.

We’ve had a very busy year, especially once our house was finished and we could start moving in.

In no particular order, below is a recap of my very favorite projects from 2012.

We love our painted stripes. They totally transformed our entryway!

Our painted secretary– such a great transformation!

I also did my first big sewing project with our Breakfast Nook Curtains.  Although, they’re about to make an appearance in a different room.

And I loved the outcome of my painted sewing machine table.

One of my favorite free projects was easily the burlap and stick welcome banner. It’s still hanging up! 🙂

Possibly the most exciting “big” project we accomplished this year was the breakfast nook bench. It’s amazing how much it has changed the space and I absolutely can’t wait to finish the room in 2013!

The living room sign was also an awesome project.

You all know how excited I was for our kitchen shelves!

Our breakfast nook also received another update when I transformed the current dresser into a two toned beauty. See how I did it here.

And finally, I loved showing you our Christmas house tour, which has links to all my favorite Christmas projects from 2012.

Well, there you have it, all of my favorites from 2012. I can’t wait to see what 2013 will bring. We already have a whole list of projects waiting to be completed throughout the year. I’ll show you the list soon.

To all my readers, old and new, I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am to have you as followers. Your comments mean more than you will ever know!

Don’t forget- starting January 1st, my new site will go live and The Wood Grain Cottage will come to life! I’ll see you there!

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