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April Fool’s Day Video
We’re getting a bit silly on the blog today. Come see a look at our recent video bloopers…
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March 2015 Highlights & Personal Updates
March 2015 was definitely a fun month around here, especially since we celebrated the DIY Playbook’s 2nd birthday! We changed things up during our birthday week with a few fun & not-so-DIY posts: 25 Things You Probably Don’t Know about Casey 25 Things You probably Don’t Know about Bridget We Answered, Blogging FAQs Birthday SurveyKeep…
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2015 Reader Survey Results
X-Long post ALERT! Today’s post is LOTS of reading and not a lot of DIY eye candy. (Lame, we know!) We promise we’ll be back with our normal routine next week, but today we thought it would be fun to share some of the survey results from our birthday survey. We got a ton ofKeep…
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How to Survive Winter in Chicago
Today is the first official day of Spring, but before we look ahead we want to pause to dish about the past 3 months here in the Midwest. To say it’s been a rough winter in Chicago would be the understatement of the season.ย It hasn’t just been rough. It’s been brutal. Picture subzero temperatures,Keep…
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7 Tips for your March Madness Bracket
Welcome to the greatest four days of the year. Whether you are a March Madness junkie like myself, or an outsider trying to understand what we all love about this time of year, I genuinely appreciate you checking in. My entire life has been centered around these two weeks from the day I was born.Keep…
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Introducing Guylights
Our husbands love sports. There’s no way around it, it’s just that simple. What’s not so simple is us trying to support their passion and knowledge of all things s-p-o-r-t-s. We are not loyal sports fans and quite honestly, we are NOT looking to become a sponge of ESPN knowledge. However, that doesn’t mean weKeep…
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25 things you probably didn’t know about Bridget
On Tuesday, Casey shared all of her dirty secrets. Today it’s my turn to dish all of the details about my life. So here we go… 1. I would eat Panera for every meal of the day if I could. I love sandwiches and would take a sandwich-style meal over a nice dinner any day.Keep…
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Happy 2nd Birthday, DIY Playbook!
Two years ago today, we hit publish on a blog we were secretly working on for over 6 months. Two years ago today, we lived in two different cities over 4 hours away from each other. Two years ago today, we were excited (yet so naive) as to what the blogosphere had in store. TwoKeep…
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25 things you probably didn’t know about Casey
Because it’s our birthday week, we figured it was time to dig a little deeper and share some more about us with our favorite readers. So we came up with the idea to compile a list of facts that you probably don’t know about each of us. Kinda like the lists you see in UsKeep…
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You Asked, We Answered: Blogging FAQs
Pssst…It’s our blog’s 2nd birthday this week, so we’re getting a little off course when it comes to blog content. So instead of DIY’s & home decor…we’re giving you some behind the scenes scoop about us and the DIY Playbook. Don’t worry, we’ll be back to our normal DIY ways on Friday! An alternative titleKeep…
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February 2015 Recap + Personal Updates
Because February is such a short month, we just knew it was going to fly by. And boy were we right! We can hardly believe tomorrow is March and spring is right around the corner! Okay maybe “right around the corner” is a little ambitious for us Chicagoans. We’re just looking forward to the grayKeep…
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How to Make a DIY Baby Gate with Fabric
Need an inexpensive baby gate to use as a room divider in your home? Check out this step-by-step tutorial…