This year though, the time was right for a real tree skirt.

.. And that mason jar light?You can read a little more about it.Do you ever feel like you’re really good at decorating for some seasons, but really not so good at others?.

This is my not so good season.. First of all, Spring and Easter are all about cutesy, and I’m not so talented with the cutesy execution.I just can’t make it work.Also, I kind of feel like I need to be able to pull in natural elements to get things going, and right now, there are none.

Or rather none that aren’t kinda grey and depressing.Just give me a year or two though, and it will be daffodil city in here!.

That being said… let’s tour anyway!.

A little bunny nest on the hutch.Oh, you just wait!.

I saved a good 5 minutes per coat with a little technique I called the “beadboard rule of thirds”.At least that’s what I called it to myself in my head while I was doing it.

I basically only painted one third of each board at a time, rather than trying to make the paint on my brush spread out over as much of the board as possible, I just filled my brush, put a few dabs down the center on just 1/3 of the board, used what was left on the brush to do the edges and then came back to the center.And repeat for the remaining 2 sections of the board.. OK, you think I’m a little nuts right now for telling you all that.