A centerpiece can grab all the attention in your kitchen or dinning room if you have one that fits the season and or occasion. See How I made this beautiful one for my dinning table in just a few easy steps!
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Author: Mallory
32 year old wife, stepmother, dog mom, daughter, granddaughter, sister, Aunt and friend. Lover of all humans, animals, books, traveling, crafting, painting, photography, learning new things, meeting new people, experiencing new things, listening, sharing, and most importantly, LIVING BY A LOVE ETHIC. “Love ethic” is an phrase adapted by one of my favorite authors, Dr. bell hooks. In one of her books, hooks defined love according to Peck's definition in his 1978 book The Road Less Traveled: love is “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth” (as cited in hooks, 2000. (2000). All about love: New visions.
Terra Cotta pots from the Dollar Tree
I love an idea that all began at the Dollar Tree! Check out How I made some decorative arrangements with these terra cotta pots from the Dollar Tree by just adding a little black ad white paint and some artificial greenery and floral stems!
How to Make Greenery Arrangements From Thrifting
Adding greenery to your decor is essential yet not always a cheap piece to add to your shelf. Check out how I made a couple greenery arrangements from a quick trip to the thrift store.
One Thing Everyone Should Blend into Their Shelf Decor
Lov-E-thic Ya’ll know I consider myself a decorator! I love interior design and I am always sharing my home decor tips! Today I wanted to share some decorating advice and (lucky for you) some DIY ways to display some in your home! What should you Incorporate into your shelf decor? Greenery! Yup, that’s right, Greenery!…
Over 50 Mother’s Day Gifts and Ideas for 2019
Lov-E-thic Say Happy Mother’s Day with a Gift your Mom will LOVE I know, I know…Mom has everything and at Christmas and on her Birthday finding a gift is always so hard! Lets face it, Mother’s Day is no different when it comes to finding the perfect gift for her. Yet, Mother’s Day is so…
DIY Paper Sack Flower Arrangments
Add some greenery and florals to your home decor! Learn how I made these beautiful artificial flower arrangements with some paper sacks and artificial florals and greenery! So Easy and so Adorable!
A Guide to making this DIY Cage Decor
With 2 wire hanging baskets from the Dollar Tree, some artificial florals from Wal Mart, a porcelain bird I already had and some hot glue; I was able to make this cage/globe decor! This could be used in so many different ways for so many different looks!
DIY Spring Bunny Decor for $1.25 !!
See How I turned some dirty old and unattractive bunnies from a thrift shop into adorable Spring and Easter decor pieces and only for $1.25!!
Who said there’s only one Golden Egg?
Modern Decor Accents for your Home
10 Rustic Items to Update your Home’s Style
DIY Easter Egg Plaque
Lov-E-thic DIY Easter egg plaque Is this cute or what?! I just can’t stop won’t stop with the Easter DIY’s, ha! This is adorable decoration to have around for Easter and the best part? It’s so inexpensive and easy to make and hardly takes any time at all! If you want to make one of…
Spring Decor Trends from Mud Pie
Lov-E-thic Check out how cute these Mud Pie home decor & hosting items are! This post contains affiliate links provided to help your shopping experience curtesy of www.mallorydublin.com As an affiliate for Mud Pie (because, lets face it, their products are ADORABLE) I’ve decided to lend you with the links (just click any of the…
Learn to Create These 3 Easter DIYS
DIY Embroidery Hoop Wreath
Who knew it was so simple to make a cute minimalist wreath out of an embroidery hook, some floral foam and some artificial flowers?
Spring Style Alert
Lov-E-thic Time for Spring Shopping 5 Style Trends for Spring 2019 I’ve never been able to go out and buy the newest trendiest styles for the season in all the boutiques because, well…my cash flow doesn’t exactly allow for that. However, that’s okay! It is what it is! That doesn’t mean I can’t find some…
Discover a new idea for an old Frame
Lov-E-thic A New Idea For That Old Frame You Have Laying Around I have a bunch of old larger frames that I’ve had for a while. some of them I couldn’t tell you where I acquired them and others my husband’s father gets at auctions and brings them to me because he knows I am…
See how I made these Salt & Pepper shakers from the Dollar Tree into these cute vases
Lov-E-thic How cute are these little mini vases? Can you believe they are just salt and pepper shakers from the Dollar Tree? This is a super easy and inexpensive DIY to make some pretty Spring decor for your home or to make for someone as a gift! And everybody loves a handmade gift! Keep reading…
DIY Spring Mason Jar Vase
Lov-E-thic DIY Spring Mason Jar Vase I had an idea to take a mason jar and paint it like a Robin’s egg to use as a vase for Spring decor in my house! I think it turned out darling and it was very easy to make. See below how I did it!
Check out my Eggcellent DIY Wreath
Lov-E-thic This wreath turned out so cute! Originally I was making an actual Easter wreath and was going to paint all of the eggs different colors. However, as I was getting ready to paint the eggs I thought…Why should I make this just for Easter use? I’ll make it for Spring use! Something I can…
DIY Spring Flower Arrangement
Lov-E-thic I decided it is time to begin making my home look a little like Spring time! I have been wanting a new small flower arrangement to set around my house but going and buying one is quite the expense! So, I decided to make my own! What I used Florals (Michael’s had 1/2 off…
DIY Bunny Garland
DIY Easter Bunny on Canvas
Learn where I got the idea to make this one of kind Easter bunny on canvas and how truly simple it is to make one of your own with just a few supplies and a few easy steps!
4 DIY Easter Decorations for Beginners
I used things I had laying around my house to create 4 Easter decorations for beginners or for all of you who always say, “I’m just not crafty” BECAUSE yes you are!! It just takes a little practice (messing around) and some creative ideas (which I know everyone’s got in them somewhere!
DIY Vintage Book Page Easter Eggs
These DIY Vintage Easter eggs are adorable and so easy to craft yourself! Learn how to make some of these (that would be costly in stores) at home with just a few inexpensive supplies!
4 Simple Steps to Make These Cute Bunnies
I made these adorable Easter decorations in just 4 easy steps and everything I used came from the dollar store!
How I Turned a Thrifty Find Into an Easter Decoration
Lov-E-thic Who knew an old wooden candle holder I ran across at a local thrift shop would spark this cute Easter decoration idea?
How to Make This Bunny on Canvas in 4 Easy Steps
Learn how to make this Moss Easter Bunny on Canvas to add to your Easter Decorations this season! It’s super easy and inexpensive! It’s a win/win!!!
Are You Ready For Valentine’s Day
Lov-E-thic Valentine’s Day hasn’t always been one of my favorite holidays and honestly, it still isn’t. However, I do enjoy it more now that I have a husband. Anyway’s whether or not I’ve always enjoyed the actual day, I have always enjoyed decorating my home with a little love for the occasion.
3 DIY Ideas for Valentine’s Day Decor
Making Your Time Count
The way we spend our time shapes who we are and contributes to our happiness and well being.
The Perfect DIY for Plant Lovers
How to make Wooden Bead Garland
I love how darling wooden bead garland is! So much, I discovered how easy it is to make on my own! Read about my experience and discover how easy it would be for you make some for your home, too!
Three Recent Crafts from Love Ethic
I have been patiently waiting to share these crafts with you! Since almost all of my Christmas gifts were handmade this year, I had to wait until after Christmas and all of them were gifted before I could share them! Happy crafting and let me know what you think!
All my Cool Christmas Gifts
5 Top-rated Home Surveillance Systems
with all the growing technology home surveillance systems are the must have for every home. Having a sense of security and feeling safe when you’re at home or making sure your home is safe while you’re away is a necessity we all long for. Surprisingly enough this kind of luxury comes at a more reasonable cost than some may think. I have taken some time and done my research on some of the best home survaillance system’s on the market. I tried to stay in a reasonable price rage (depending on a households security needs) and read hundreds of reviews on these products to share the best ones (in my opinion) for keeping a safe and secure home.
How to make these minimalist Tree Ornaments
You’ll love these DIY minimalist tree ornaments! They are super easy to make and are great for gifting to family and friends during the holiday season!
DIY Magnolia Wreath
I am so proud to share this beautiful DIY Magnolia leaf wreath I made with everyone and how easy it is to make one!
How to Make Felt Garland
After seeing some adorable felt garland while shopping I knew how easy it would be to make it myself! it’s so easy and fun to make DIY felt garland!
Black Friday Deals are HERE
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Early Black Friday Fashion Deals
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Check out my sisters Christmas decor!
8 DIY Christmas Decor Ideas for Minimalists
Where to Find the Best Wrapping Paper this Holiday Season
Want to wrap your gifts with the style that expresses how you feel about the Holidays? Ive picked some of my favorite patterns for this Holiday season! Theres everything from vintage look, modern, shiny, dogs, cats and even dinosaurs!
Sweater Trends for 2018
Check out these super affordable sweater trends for 2018! Just click and buy from LovEThic and your products will be drop shipped right to your door!
How to Make These Leaf dishes in 5 Easy Steps
These adorable DIY leaf dishes are made from polymer clay and leaves from the yard! It only takes these 5 easy steps and you can make some of your own in no time!
Santa Cruz to San Fransisco
One year of marriage landed us on the West Coast
Lov-E-thic Road trip from San Francisco to Big Sur to Moonstone Beach and everything in between
DIY Felt Pine Trees
Lov-E-thic DIY Felt Pine Trees Between a few things from The Dollar Tree, Wal-Mart and some sticks in the yard I created these adorable Felt Pine Trees for some wintery home decor this season!
Dollar Tree Succulent Globes
Easy DIY Santa Wreath
Lov-E-thic Easy DIY Santa Wreath You only need 3 materials and 2 crafting supplies for this super cute and super easy Santa wreath!
Check out These cute Inexpensive gifts
Lov-E-thic With Christmas right around the corner it’s time to find some cute affordable brands to give to those we love.
DIY Christmas Frame Decor
Cork Pumpkins
Lov-E-thic Cork Pumpkins So, I stumbled upon a great deal of corks at my family’s antique store not to long ago. I had no idea what I was going to use them for but I figured they would come in some kind of crafty use some time or another. As I’ve been blogging about Fall…
5 Steps to Creating a DIY Succulent Pumpkin
Lov-E-thic DIY Succulent Pumpkin This is another one of my Dollar Tree crafts! I love the Fall season and Halloween so of course I can’t stop won’t stop with the fall crafts and DIY Fall decor!
$4 Halloween Wreath
Lov-E-thic $4 halloween Wreath I’m at it again with my Dollar Tree finds! I have an old window hanging in my dinning room, I keep a boxwood wreath hanging on it most of the time but during a holiday I obviously like to switch the boxwood wreath for something more festive. I didn’t have one…
3 Steps to the CUTEST DIY Halloween Decor
Painted Picture Frames Inspired by new Fall color Palette
Lov-E-thic Painted Picture Frames with New Paint Colors Inspired by the Season So I went to Hobby Lobby last week to pick up some new Fall paint colors!
10 Fall Activities to do with Children
Lov-E-thic 10 Fall Activities to do with Children The Fall season is a busy time for a lot of people, especially people with children. School has started back, football and other school activities begin, homework is the new nightly struggle, and all the other countless obligations are back in full swing.
Dollar Tree DIY Halloween Wreath
Lov-E-thic Dollar Tree DIY Halloween Wreath I love the Dollar Tree! I don’t care how much money I’m ever worth, I will always be a loyal shopper to the Dollar Tree! You can get some of the best deals on craft supply’s and I can honestly say I own a fair amount of decor for…
DIY Flower Pots
Lov-E-thic Flower pots are expensive! The only affordable ones are the good old terra-cotta ones that I assume most people have somewhere laying around their house. I did. Even though it’s the time of year most flower pots and gardening essentials are on sale I fought the urge to head out and buy new ones…
A DIY Wreath For Any Occasion
Lov-E-thic A DIY wreath for any occasion that can be done a 100 different ways! Are wreaths even still a thing? Are they even cool? I wouldn’t even know the popularity status of wreaths because I’m from the south and round here everybody’s got a wreath on every door! It’s more like who can craft…
Crafts to get into the Fall spirit
Lov-E-thic Fall is my favorite season! My Birthday is in October, the weather is ideal and fall clothes are my favorite! Although, it doesn’t matter what time of the year it is because I’m always crafting something up for the current season. Even though it’s the beginning of September and technically fall isn’t official until…
How a Dress can Inspire Your Appeal
Lov-E-thic I went to a childhood friend’s wedding over the weekend. The wedding was a beautiful set up on my friend, the groom, Matt’s father’s family farm. The heat was up but so was the fun. Surrounded by old friends from high school and college It was good to celebrate Matt, his new wife, Erica…
2 great years & 2 great parties
Lov-E-thic And just like that,Rollins is 2. Rollins is my youngest and 4th nephew, the son of my youngest sister. He was claimed by the world and by many hearts on August 28th 2016- I was there beside my sister the moment he was born. I have never seen anything so beautiful.
Fashion your style with some classics
Lov-E-thic I have been obsessed with fashion since I can remember. When I was younger there was no question who had the best dressed barbies in my hood. I had store bought barbie clothes, ones my Nana had made for my mother’s barbies when she was young, and ones crafted by my Nana per my…
making memories into treasures
Lov-E-thic Our family lost Aunt Pam last October. She left behind her mother, 2 sons, one daughter-In law and 3 grandchildren; 2 boys and a little girl. Aunt Pam loved her family more than anything in this world and she was definitely loved by them. Aunt Pam was so loved,not only by her family, by…
Stop and Smell the Roses
Lov-E-thic Sometimes stopping and smelling the roses seems like it’s not option for most of us. We’re all busy, with kids, pets, work, our spouse, our parents, our grandparents or just life in general. Some of us are just bad at time management, period. Yet, despite all of our crazy lives, stopping and smelling the…
Love and freedom
Lov-E-thic I want to share a link that leads to a short reading I admire when it comes to politics and especially hits home during something as hurtful as the current situation at the border right now. This link is from the UU College of Social Justice and was written by one of hero’s, Dr….
keep your cake, I’m not eating it
Lov-E-thic “Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love– “care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge”– in our everyday lives.” -bell hooks I already had my doubts about cake artist, Jack Phillips when I heard he refused to create a cake for a gay couple back in 2012. I’m part of an…
5 Netflix Gems
Convince me to cruise again
Lov-E-thic So many people scream about their love for going on cruises. It’s so inexpensive! It’s all you can eat and the food is amazing! The excursions at your destination are so fun! It’s the life, the ideal vacation!
3 Resources & 3 Tools for Growers
Lov-E-thic 3 Resources & 3 Tools for Growers Those who garden have happier lives. I’ve always loved flowers, plants and even trees. When I was a little girl I spent countless hours in the yard with my mother while she worked on her landscaping.
cutting ties with depression
Lov-E-thic Cutting ties with depression is very different and unique to each person who experiences it. Some never claim defeat over depression and live with it forever. In sharing my own experience , I would like to express my mindfulness in knowing some experience greater difficulties without support while enduring depression. My journey was difficult…
5 kitchen appliances I can’t live without
Lov-E-thic March 20, 2018 We all have special things in our kitchens we use on a daily basis. The idea of not having our most frequented appliances is quite comforting, it is for me, anyway. I wanted to share 5 appliances that I use quite often and offer the resources for you to own them…
An Easter Gift that keeps on giving
Lov-E-thic Want to give an Easter gift that keeps on giving? So does John Oliver! Click the Image below to purchase this bestselling children’s book. Not only will you gift a child with an adorable story 2 adorable bunnies, the proceeds from your purchase will go to the following:
Have you ever met one of your favorite authors?
Lov-E-thic #bellhooks #kentuckywritershalloffame #allaboutlove #loveethic #goodreads #loveethicforeverybody #mallorydublin Back in January I traveled to Lexington, Kentucky where I got to meet one of my favorite authors, Dr. bell hooks. She was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame on January 31st at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
5 tips for keeping your home tidy
Lov-E-thic March 19, 2018 We are all too accustomed with the struggles of keeping our living space tidy. Whether it’s the unavoidable dirt that surrounds our belongings no matter how often we dust, the toothpaste and hair that collects on our bathroom sinks, counter tops and cabinet doors (for some reason, those of us with…
Why I Love Concrete Countertops
Lov-E-thic March 14, 2018 The new craze in home renovations, what is it? Concrete counter tops, of course! They are perfect for the person who loves the farmhouse look, the one who seeks more of the modern farmhouse vibe, and for the those who desire a more modern appeal, they work for you, too! You…
4 Questions I’m asked most from Bride’s to be
Lov-E-thic March 12, 2018 I just got married in October of 2017. I have been happily married ever since however, my husband I are still paying for our wedding. Did my parents pay for my wedding? Yes, they contributed (a great deal actually). But the truth of the matter is, I, along with my parents…
My hardships as a woman and what makes them better
Lov-E-thic March 8, 2018 International Women’s Day What better day to share my womanhood struggles and what makes them better? International Women’s Day has been recognized on March 8th in every country since the early 1900’s. It honors the continuous movement for women’s rights. There are numerous social issues women face, even today, in every…
What a morning
Lov-E-thic Wednesday March 7th 2018 This morning I already have my car in the shop. Seems as though I need a new oxygen sensor. get this…I took it in last week to the dealership where I bought my car and they wanted $120 dollars to do a diagnostic test on it (you know the thing…
The Journey Begins
Lov-E-thic Thanks for joining me! I have wanted to start a blog for a long time. There are so many things to blog about. I love to paint, do diy projects, travel, discover new things, garden, hike, read books, spend time with people I love and numerous other things I am excited to share my…