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Use your summer vacation as inspiration for decorating your summer mantel! Gather souvenirs and travel mementos to create unique mantel decor.

Travel Inspired Summer Mantel

Use your summer vacation as inspiration for decorating your summer mantel! Gather souvenirs and travel mementos to create unique mantel decor.

With Memorial Day just around the corner, I am thinking about summer decorating already! Total transparency—some years I switch up my decor for summer and some years I leave my spring things out until—ahem—fall. But this year I had a fun reason to put together a summer mantel! My good friend Amy from My Life from Home has organized a Decorate Your Mantel Series and today a bunch of us bloggers are sharing ideas for summer mantel decor!

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DIY Garden Ideas / Easy, budget-friendly and creative projects and ideas for backyard flower gardens and what to plant in your landscaping beds.

DIY Garden Ideas – Merry Monday #155

DIY Garden Ideas / Easy, budget-friendly and creative projects and ideas for backyard flower gardens and what to plant in your landscaping beds.

Who else is eager to start digging in the dirt? I know I am! We’ve had a lot of wet days lately, but I am hoping to make it to my favorite local nursery this week to pick up some flowers and plants to freshen up our gardening beds for summer! I came across lots of lovely DIY garden ideas from last week’s party that are getting me excited and inspired to start planting!

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Our favorite Kauai restaurants - great places to grab a delicious bite, sample fresh local-caught fish and enjoy a cocktail or pina colada in paradise!

Our Favorite Kauai Restaurants

Visiting Kauai, HI soon? These are the must-see spots on Kauai! Breathtaking views, lush local scenery and fun adventures to make the most of your trip.

I’m back today to share more details from our recent trip to Kauai, HI – and today is all about the food (and drinks!) we enjoyed during our visit. These are some of our favorite Kauai restaurants—places we would definitely stop at again, and in one case, we even ate there twice in one week! (If you missed my first post about all the fun things we did in Kauai, you can find it here!)

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Visiting Kauai, HI soon? These are the must-see spots on Kauai! Breathtaking views, lush local scenery and fun adventures to make the most of your trip.

10 Must-See Spots on Kauai

Visiting Kauai, HI soon? These are the must-see spots on Kauai! Breathtaking views, lush local scenery and fun adventures to make the most of your trip.

Do you ever get home from a vacation and find yourself constantly looking back at your photos and reminiscing about all of the fun things you did? Yeah, that’s what I’ve been preoccupied with since the minute we got home from Kauai. Actually, I think I was looking back at our photos on the plane, so I barely even made it home first! Is it possible to be homesick for a place where you don’t actually live??

I asked recently on Instagram if you’d like to see some travel posts about our trip, and the resounding answer was yes! So today I’m taking a break from my usual home- and craft-related projects to share 10 of our favorite, must-see spots on Kauai, HI!

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