…Which was actually a bamboo garden stake that I grabbed out of the mud room.

This contest is open to Canadian residents until November 29th.Full contest details can be found on the CIL website.. You know that I  love the magic of paint and how it’s a tool that almost anyone can have easy access to if they want to make their home a more welcoming place to be.

I really appreciate that CIL represents the idea that beauty can be created on a small budget and continues to try to offer better paint products at a great value.It’s always a pleasure for me to partner up with CIL to spread the message about the greatness of paint!.I hope you’ve found a little inspiration to pick up a paint brush today and I hope that it’s one of my lovely and talented readers who gets to win that grand prize!.

What paint projects are you going to be sharing with us in this contest?We all have dreams and goals for things we’d like to find the time to do at some point in our lives, but it’s so easy to feel like we just don’t have the time.If you have kids at home, you might be waiting for them to get just a little bit older, a little bit more independent before you get to some of those things you’ve been meaning to do.

I know I’ve always felt like I would surely have more time on my hands at some point in the future, just beyond my reach, but of course that time never comes.

At some point, I had to start figuring out how I was going to keep my house clean, grow my blogging business, tackle our renovations, and have a normal family life, all at the same time, regardless of what phase of life we were in.We’re all going to have super amazingly clean houses in 2015 now aren’t we?

I can totally just tell.Well, OK, maybe not, but I hope you at least found something in here that will help you out with one of life’s little messes!

I know these little tricks come in handy to me every day!It was a pretty great year for DIY projects around these parts.We really did make a lot of progress on the house AND we shared some handy tips along the way too!