If you don’t have one already, don’t you think it would be great to have your own butcher block table?!!

How about if I told you that you can build one with the help of a Jenga game! Here’s how!

Happy New Year! Boy, did I need a little break. And I took one, although a little longer than I projected, for no specific reason really. I guess I was just restoring my juju, thinking about all that we accomplished here at the 1820 this past year, and started dreaming ahead of what we’d like to accomplish in 2021, with some serious Netflix binge watching tossed in there.
I love a good review, don’t you?! A good refresher of some really great design and decor ideas, along with some really FAB recipes! Well, I have all that and then some!!

Here is the Farmhouse 1820 year in review, along with looking ahead.

I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I failed at melting white chocolate. I seemed to have been doing everything wrong, and the methods that I researched and tried – well, I failed at those too. Since I shared with you yesterday that I made some white chocolate bark, I thought I would follow that up with the secret to melting it.

There is a secret to melting white chocolate and I’m sharing the best tips, along with a step by step video. Come on in and see for yourself!

Inspiration comes from all over, and the idea of how to make a table skirt with ribbons came from a department store during Christmastime.

I’m a sucker for ribbons. I have been for as long as I can remember. I have bins of them and it’s without question that I’ll use each one at some point.  Whether I make a shower curtain, or sew a bunch together for a pillow, or hey, even wrap presents with them, I’ll use them. And when I see something made from ribbons that I admire, then I’m all in.

Here’s how to make a table skirt with ribbons!