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ACN Featured on About.com This Week

Exciting news! A Cultivated Nest is featured on About.com this week. It's their Budget Decorating Blog Of The Week! Go here if you'd like to read the write up. The give away for the Gadanke journals ends tonight (post below) so there's still time to enter and they make great gifts if you're not into journaling yourself. Have a wonderful weekend and don't forget ... Read More about ACN Featured on About.com This Week

About Me

Hello there! Welcome! I'm Manuela, a frugal living and homemaking blogger living outside of Atlanta. A Cultivated Nest is a Frugal Living Blog started in 2007. Do you have a "someday" home? Mine would be a sprawling farmhouse on two acres, filled with vintage/cottage style treasures, a pantry filled with food I've grown and canned, a picket fence all around the farmhouse with a huge ... Read More about About Me

Painting An Old TV Cabinet

By Manuela Williams

Hi everyone! A while back I showed you half of our family room and I said that I was planning on painting our old laminate TV armoire (which we bought for $75 ten years ago at a moving sale). Before Well I finally finished it! I originally thought I’d paint it white because I have so much white paint leftover from other paint projects but I just ... Read More about Painting An Old TV Cabinet

Learning From the Great Depression

By Manuela Williams

My friend Lynn is guest posting for me today and the topic is Learning From The Great Depression (she no longer has a blog). When we think of the Great Depression years (although many of us did not live in that era), what does it make you think about? Although I have no remaining grandparents, I do remember talks with my grandmother. Many of us have someone in our lives who lived in that era or ... Read More about Learning From the Great Depression

Welcome To Fall Decorating

By Manuela Williams

….I hope! It’s been cool in the mornings so I’m hoping that we’re slipping into fall but you never know with Georgia weather! At any rate, I felt inspired to start a little fall decorating. I do like to celebrate the change in seasons! What better place to begin than my little foyer. It doesn’t take much to give that space a new feel with a few changes in accessories! I hot glued some ... Read More about Welcome To Fall Decorating

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

By Manuela Williams

Hi everyone! What a crazy few weeks it’s been! We've been busy doing a lot of projects. I’ll start off with some of the good things and then proceed to what stressed me out. After 10 years of living with this metal and wood handrail in my foyer – it is gone gone gone!! This is my new bannister and I LOVE it. I need to paint it and I’m thinking black handrail/post and white spindles. Of ... Read More about The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly